Hsieh/Ostapenko dethrone Siniakova/Townsend to reach Wimbledon doubles final
Fourth seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Jelena Ostapenko View Profile dethroned defending champions and No. 1 seeds Katerina Siniakova View Profile and Taylor Townsend View Profile 6-4, 7-5 in the women's doubles semifinals at Wimbledon on Friday, setting a championship match with No. 8 seeds Veronika Kudermetova View Profile and Elise Mertens View Profile .
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While neither team has won Wimbledon before, none of the four players who'll compete in Sunday's final are new to the stage of a Grand Slam final. In fact, each team has a Wimbledon champion: Hsieh and Mertens won the title together in 2021, beating Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina. The former top-ranked pair also won the 2024 Australian Open together, and are each bidding for their fifth Grand Slam women's doubles title on opposite sides of the net.
Ostapenko, meanwhile, will look to win her second major after taking the US Open title last summer with Lyudmyla Kichenok, while Kudermetova seeks a first Grand Slam of any kind.
A day after winning her first Grand Slam title in mixed doubles -- she now has 11 majors overall -- World No. 1 Siniakova was unable to seal a second final this fortnight as Hsieh and Ostapenko sealed the upset in 1 hour and 41 minutes on No. 1 Court. The top seeds led 3-1 early in the first set, but after being broken back, they went on the lose the last three games.
In set two, Hsieh and Ostapenko broke in the first game and kept the lead throughout -- and saved two break points in a crucial eighth game that would've pulled Siniakova and Townsend level at 4-4.
In the first semifinal, Kudermetova and Mertens came from a set down to defeat unseeded Desirae Krawczyk and Olivia Gadecki View Profile , 3-6, 6-0, 6-3.