Australian Open: Katerina Siniakova, Taylor Townsend topped girls’s doubles champion

Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend grew to become the ladies’s doubles champions within the Australian Open 2025. On Sunday, January 26, the top-seeded pair defeated Jelena Ostapenko and Hsieh Su-wei 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3 on the Rod Laver Area in a match that stretched for 2 hours and 27 minutes.

Siniakova and Townsend additionally received their second main as a pair after they received the Wimbledon 2024 title, beating Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe in straight units within the grand finale.

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The Czech Republic’s Siniakova, who can also be the doubles World No.1, received her tenth main and her third Australian Open doubles title after 2022 and 2023. Siniakova received her first two titles at Melbourne Park with reigning Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova, after which she received with Townsend.

Ostapenko and Hsieh made Siniakova and Townsend struggle onerous and took the match into the deciding set the place they threw within the towel.

Within the final set, Siniakova and Townsend put forth their A-game to earn a break level and go 5-3 up, after which they didn’t look again. Total, the duo dominated after changing six of their 17 break level possibilities.

They made seven double faults and struggled considerably with their second serves, however that didn’t price them the match.

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Siniakova and Townsend additionally made their approach by to the semi-final of the US Open 2024 the place they misplaced to Zhang Shuai and Kristina Mladenovic. As a pair, they’ve a 15-1 report in Grand Slams till now.

Siniakova additionally grew to become the primary participant since Martina Hingis in 2015 to win 10 girls’s doubles Grand Slam titles. Townsend has been in stupendous kind as after coming back from her maternity break, she has received seven of her eight WTA doubles title.

Earlier, Townsend had taken an 18-month break and have become a mom to Adyn Aubrey on March 14, 2021.