Ashleigh Barty, left, and Casey Dellacqua pose with their trophies after the women's doubles final. Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/APAustralians Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua missed another chance to secure a first grand slam women's doubles title, losing in the final at Wimbledon.
The 13th seeds fell 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 to the eighth-seeded combination of Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh and China's Shuai Peng on Saturday.
Barty and Dellacqua, in just their fourth WTA tournament together, were bidding to become the first all-Australian duo in 35 years to win the women's doubles at the All England Club.
The pair also lost the final at the Australian Open in January.
The Australians started brightly on Centre Court and had a set point on serve up 5-4.
However Hsieh and Peng fought back to claim the first set in a tiebreaker.
The Asian duo carried the momentum into the second set and raced to a first grand slam doubles title.
It was Barty and Dellacqua first defeat on grass in 10 matches, having claimed their maiden WTA doubles title in Birmingham earlier this month.
Both players failed to secure spots in the singles draw at Wimbledon, with 17-year-old Barty a surprise first-round loser in qualifying after winning her first grand slam singles match at the French Open last month.
However she bounced back strongly from the disappointment, also reaching the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles event alongside compatriot John Peers.
The last all-Australian women's duo to win the Wimbledon title was Wendy Turnbull and Kerry Melville Reid in 1978.
Promising Australian juniors Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis reached Sunday's boys doubles final and will face Enzo Couacaud and Stefano Napolitano.
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