French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut beat 2017 champions Finn Henri Kontinen and local hope John Peers 6-4, 7-6(1) to win their maiden Australian Open men's doubles title on Sunday.

Australian Open: Frenchmen Herbert, Mahut win men's doubles title

Tennis's marathon man John Isner has welcomed Wimbledon's decision to introduce tiebreaks at 12-12 in the final set. The American became something of a Wimbledon cult hero when beating France's Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the fifth set in 2010 - a record-breaking duel lasting 11 hours five minutes and spanning three days and in which the last set alone (eight hours 11 minutes) would have broken the previous longest-match record.

John Isner welcomes Wimbledon's new tiebreak rule

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Australian Open: Frenchmen Herbert, Mahut win men's doubles title

John Isner welcomes Wimbledon's new tiebreak rule