LONDON (AP) — After seeing longtime doubles accomplice Barbora Krejcikova win the Wimbledon singles title, Katerina Siniakova went out on Centre Court docket and added one other Grand Slam trophy to her personal assortment.
Siniakova received her third ladies’s doubles title at Wimbledon after teaming up with Taylor Townsend to beat Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1) on Saturday in a match that completed after 10:20 p.m. native time underneath floodlights.
“Wonderful. I’m so pleased with Barbora,” Siniakova stated of her Czech countrywoman. “I’m simply so joyful that we might do it as properly.”
Siniakova has received seven main doubles titles with Krejcikova and one with Coco Gauff at this yr’s French Open. This was her first with Townsend, an American whose earlier greatest Grand Slam end in doubles was two runner-up finishes on the 2022 U.S. Open — in a loss to Siniakova and Krejcikova — and 2023 French Open.
Townsend stated it was Siniakova’s thought for the 2 of them to play collectively at Wimbledon.
“I’m so glad Katerina slid into my DMs,” Townsend stated.
A bit greater than six hours after Krejcikova beat Jasmine Paolini within the ladies’s singles closing, the fourth-seeded Siniakova and Townsend transformed their first match level when Routliffe double-faulted.
Siniakova and Townsend didn’t convert any of their seven break factors within the second set however raced to 5-0 within the tiebreaker.
It was the third match of the day on Centre Court docket after the males’s doubles closing.
Siniakova and Krejcikova received the Wimbledon doubles in 2022 and 2018.
