BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Netherlands' second-seeded team Korie Homan and Sharon Walraven won their country the second wheelchair tennis gold medal in the Beijing Paralympics after edging out compatriots Ester Vergeer and Jiske Griffioen in the final on Monday.

    The gold medal came as a consolation especially for Homan, who lost the women's singles final the previous day to Vergeer.

    In the close match lasting more than two hours, Homan and Walraven rallied from one set down to beat their top-ranked opponents 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.

    "It's amazing. I had a match point yesterday (in the singles final) and it didn't work out. Today, after the first match point, I was thinking like, 'No, not again, not again.' We have to just go for it," said the 22-year-old Homan, who, having narrowly missed out on the singles gold medal, appeared determined all through the match.

    "I was really disappointed (yesterday) because I had the match point against the player who hadn't lost in a long, long time. Today I cried again, but that was because I was so happy that we could do it," Homan added.

    Vergeer and Griffioen had the chance to pull them back into play while holding off one match point at 5-4 down on Homan's serve in the third set. They even produced two break points in the game but finally bowed out on the second match point.

    "Esther and Jiske played a good match, but in the third set they got nervous. The second set was really, really close and we won it. But in the third set, they got a little scared, so we used that to finish it," Homan said.

    Vergeer, who has remained on a 349-match winning streak in the women's singles and won five Paralympic golds, said she was sad about the result but impressed by the opponents' working drive.

    "It was a little bit like yesterday. I won the first set and lost the second and then in the third set it was so close.

    "They had a match point and we took that point back. It totally reminded me of yesterday. I think Korie stayed really calm, together with Sharon. They made a very strong impression on me, very calm and very steady.

    "We know that we could play better. Today's match was just not one of our best matches. We said to each other that maybe tonight or after a couple of days, I mean, we are still very very proud of that silver medal."

    France's second seeds Stephane Houdet and Michael Jeremiasz won the gold medal in the men's doubles over fourth seeds Stefan Olsson and Peter Wikstrom from Sweden, after their match resumed on Monday following a rain delay the previous day.

    Houdet and Jeremiasz had taken the first set from Olsson and Wikstrom when the match was suspended. However, the Swedes led the second set 2-1 and 30-0 by the time the match was rained out.

    The French team then pushed ahead winning 6-1, 7-6(5) after two hours on Monday.

    Jeremiasz won the silver in Athens with a different partner. He was so elated to win the gold that he ripped off his shirt, baring his chest at the end of the match.

    Top seed Shingo Kunieda of Japan snatched the men's singles gold medal from the Athens champion Robin Ammerlaan of the Netherlands to end the wheelchair tennis event at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre.

    In the one-sided match, Kunieda had the complete control over the second seed, winning 6-3, 6-0 in less than an hour after an Ammerlaan double-fault.

    "I will drink beer. I can not usually drink alcohol, but tonight I will," said Kunieda, who went into the Games as the first men's player to win all four majors in the same season in 2007.