Woodbridge and Reid magnify Australian celebrations

Australia's Todd Woodbridge and Todd Reid helped the country to a hat-trick of titles on the final day of the Championships yesterday, both tasting Grand Slam success within an hour of Lleyton Hewitt lifting the trophy in the main event.

Forty minutes after Hewitt's success on Centre Court, Woodbridge, partnered by Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman, won the men's doubles, beating Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in four sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5 on Court One. Less than 20 minutes later, at 6.02pm, Todd Reid was falling to his knees on Court Two having secured victory in the boys' singles. The 18-year-old from Sydney, now resident in Florida, beat Lamine Ouahab of Algeria 7-6, 6-4.

For a nation supposedly on the brink of a tennis crisis – there are "only" three Australian men and two women in the top-100 rankings – it was not a bad afternoon's work. Certainly the swathes of Antipodean fans seemed content enough, strolling from arena to arena, occasionally removing their giant inflatable kangaroos from their shoulders long enough to squeeze under the awning at the beer tent for another cold one.

Woodbridge's success was the 73rd doubles title of his illustrious career, and the 12th in Grand Slam events. Some 61 of his titles came as one half of "the Woodies", alongside Mark Woodforde. He and Bjorkman now have three titles together, having won in Auckland and Monte Carlo earlier this year.

Knowles and Nestor, making a third consecutive Grand Slam final after the Australian Open, which they won, and the French Open, which they lost, looked troubled from the outset and swiftly lost the first two sets. A tight tie-break (9-7) was needed to settle the third, and then Woodbridge and Bjorkman upped the pace to close matters.

Reid's victory in the boys' is a fillip for the Australian game. The two Aussies in the world's top 100 aside from Hewitt at No 1, are Pat Rafter and Wayne Arthurs, neither of whom are spring chickens.

Elsewhere yesterday, there was an all-Russian girls' final, contested by a pair of 15-year-olds, Vera Douchevina and Maria Sharapova. Douchevina, ranked as the No 11 junior in the world came from a set down to prevail 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 over Sharapova. Sharapova was born in Siberia but is now resident in Florida where she has been a scholar at the Bollettieri Academy since she was seven.

The mixed doubles had only reached the semi-final stage yesterday morning although it was hoped that the final would be on court some time last night. Daniela Hantuchova, the 44in-legged Slovakian, entered the final alongside partner Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe hoping for a second consecutive success in the event.

She won last year's final alongside Leos Friedl of the Czech Republic, in front of the smallest ever show court crowd. Their victory was played out on Court One – where 124 were present, including the players and officials – as Goran Ivanisevic was winning his title in front of a packed crowd on People's Monday on Centre Court.