No. 8 seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens are the Wimbledon ladies’ doubles champions after an enthralling final on Centre Court on Sunday.
Kudermetova and Mertens fought past No. 4 seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Jelena Ostapenko 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in a 2-hour and 23-minute thriller to take the championship trophy.
It is a big win for Kudermetova — she was the only player of the four to have never won a Grand Slam doubles title. Now she joins that list, four years after failing to convert two championship points in the 2021 Wimbledon doubles final.
This is Mertens’ fifth Grand Slam doubles title, and second at Wimbledon. She and Hsieh teamed up to win the 2021 Wimbledon doubles title — in fact, they were the ones who toppled Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina in that final.
More to come…