PARIS — Unseeded Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Wang Xinyu of China gained the French Open ladies’s doubles on Sunday after beating Tenth-seeded Leylah Fernandez of Canada and Taylor Townsend of the United States 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1.

It was one other upset victory for Hsieh and Wang after they beat sixth-seeded Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez to succeed in the ultimate, and three different seeded pairs earlier than that.

The feat was made extra outstanding by the very fact it was solely their second match collectively after teaming up at Strasbourg final month.

The 37-year-old Hsieh is now a five-time Grand Slam doubles champion - with the opposite three coming at Wimbledon. Hsieh and Peng Shuai gained the ladies’s doubles title on the 2014 French Open.

Hsieh had not performed a Slam since 2021 as a consequence of harm, whereas the 21-year-old Wang’s first main got here on her Roland Garros debut.

It was the primary main closing in doubles for Fernandez, the 2021 U.S. Open singles runner-up.

PHOTOS: Hsieh and Wang win French Open ladies's doubles after beating Fernandez and Townsend

Townsend, in her solely Slam closing, was runner-up with Caty McNally eventually yr’s U.S. Open doubles to Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková.

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