The duo, playing in their first tour level match as a team, took the title with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 6-3 victory over American twins, second seeds Bob and Mike Bryan.

The duo will split the prize money of 220,000 pounds, which will be useful for the 29-year-old Huss whose singles ranking stands at a mediocre 807 in the world.

He admitted that with his 30th birthday approaching in December, he had considered retirement on the eve of Wimbledon.

The result also condemned the Americans to their third Grand Slam final defeat this year after they were beaten by Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett in the Australian Open and Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi at the French Open.

It was also their fifth loss in a Grand Slam final against one win which came at the 2003 French Open.

Huss and Moodie had knocked out top seeds Bjorkman and Mirnyi in the semifinals and third seeds Mark Knowles and Michael Llodra in the last eight.

Those wins followed two victories in the qualifying rounds.