Paris, France) – Responsible for the elimination of São Paulo’s Luisa Stefani and Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski in the third round of Roland Garros, the duo of North American Taylor Townsend and Canada’s Leylah Fernandez shook up the competition and secured themselves in final, defeating key 2 bosses Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula this Friday with authority, scoring partials of 6/0 and 6/4.

After beating the North Americans in just 66 minutes, Townsend and Fernandez saw the definition of the second semi-final of the day, more contested and in three sets, ending with the victory of the Taiwanese Su-Wei Hsieh and the Chinese Xinyu Wang. , who took 1h53 minutes to beat American Nicole Melichar and Australian Ellen Perez, eighth seeds, by 6/2, 3/6 and 6/3.

Fernandez and Townsend are playing their fifth tournament together, in a partnership that began this year in Indian Wells and soon after he already achieved his first major result, with the second in Miami. On clay, the best performance of the Canadian and the American, both left-handed, was the semi-final in Madrid. Together they have 14 wins and 4 losses so far and are looking for their greatest achievement.

Currently 36th in the world in doubles and 49th in singles, Fernandez is challenging her second Grand Slam decision, after taking second place in singles at the 2021 US Open, overtaken by Briton Emma Raducanu. She has only two doubles finals and no title. Townsend is seventh in the doubles standings, has three titles and four runners-up, including one at the 2022 US Open with Caty McNally.

A 37-year-old veteran, Hsieh has the richest resume of the four finalists, a former No. 1 in the rankings and 30 doubles titles, including four Grand Slam titles. Her partner, the Chinese Wang, is only 21 years old, is world number 105 in doubles and will only play her seventh doubles final, having won two titles and four runners-up.