After a really promising begin, Leylah Annie Fernandez of Laval, Quebec and her American companion, Taylor Townsend simply couldn’t recover from the end line within the girls’s doubles last at Roland-Garros on Sunday morning in Paris regardless of a valiant effort.
Seeded tenth within the draw, the duo fell 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 to Hsieh Su-Wei of Chinese language Taipei and Wang Xinyu of China in an entertaining championship match on Court docket Philippe-Chartrier.
Fernandez and Townsend have been unable to transform two break level alternatives within the opening sport of the match, but it surely was an indication of issues to come back for the pair within the first. They broke with their first probability within the third sport which was the beginning of a five-game win streak to take the opening body in dominant vogue. They have been the higher crew in each aspect of the doubles with Fernandez controlling the play from the baseline and Townsend patrolling the online successfully.
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Hsieh, the artful veteran, and Wang rebounded properly at first of set two. They broke their opponents’ serve for the primary time within the contest out of the gate within the opening sport and efficiently held their lead till they have been damaged whereas serving for the set at 5-4. Now degree at 5-5, Fernandez and Townsend held serve not with out problem within the eleventh sport to regain their benefit. A love maintain from Hsieh and Wang meant {that a} tiebreak would resolve the end result of the second set. Ultimately, Hsieh and Wang earned the decisive mini-break at 5-3 and transformed their second set level probability.
They carried their momentum into the ultimate body and jumped out to a 3-0 lead after breaking Fernandez’s serve. The Canadian-American combo had a number of alternatives to get again on serve within the fifth sport, however couldn’t get again on degree phrases in what can be their final stand within the match as Hsieh and Wang moved swiftly to a formidable victory.
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This was Fernandez’s first look in a Grand Slam doubles last and second Main championship match total after ending because the runner-up in singles to Nice Britain’s Emma Raducanu on the 2021 U.S. Open. As for Townsend, she was contesting her second Grand Slam last. She and compatriot Caty McNally have been finalists on the U.S. Open final yr.
Roland-Garros was the primary Grand Slam Fernandez and Townsend performed collectively and it actually gained’t be the final as their sturdy 2023 season on the doubles court docket continues. To date, they’ve reached a Main last, a WTA 1000 last in Miami, and one other semifinal in Madrid on clay a couple of weeks in the past.
