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Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic retained their French Open doubles title by claiming their fourth Grand Slam as a tag team with a 6-4 7-5 victory against Desirae Krawczyk and Alexa Guarachi in the Roland Garros final on Sunday.
FILE PHOTO: Tennis – Australian Open – Women’s Doubles Final – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – January 31, 2020 Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France react during their match against Su-Wei Hsieh of Taiwan and Barbora Strycova from the Czech Republic. REUTERS / Kim Hong-Ji
PARIS: Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic retained their French Open doubles title by claiming their fourth Grand Slam as a pair with a 6-4 7-5 victory against Desirae Krawczyk and Alexa Guarachi in the Roland Garros final on Sunday.
Hungary’s Babos and local favorite Kristina Mladenovic, who were withdrawn from the US Open before the second round due to COVID-19 protocols, have now won four of the last 11 female majors.
It is Mladenovic’s fifth women’s doubles Grand Slam title after she also won the French Open with compatriot Caroline Garcia in 2016.
Babos won all of her Women’s Doubles Grand Slam titles with Mladenovic.
After an early exchange of breaks, second-seeded Mladenovic and Babos decisively stole the serve of 14-seeded American Krawzcyk and Chilean Guarachi, 5-3, and took the first set in 50 minutes.
Babos served for the match at 5-4 after five games against, but the pair broke again, only for Mladenovic to complete it with a forehand winner down the line after another break.
(Report by Julien Pretot; edited by Christian Radnedge)
