Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic have won the Roland-Garros doubles tournament.
Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic won the Roland-Garros doubles tournament for the second time after 2016, against the Americans Coco Gauff, already finalist the day before in singles, and Jessica Pegula, 2-6, 6-3, 6- 2.
The Habs, who had not played doubles together on the circuit since 2017, reformed at the start of the year for the Australian Open (eliminated in the 2nd round) their victorious pair of the 2019 Fed Cup.
Without Garcia, Mladenovic won four Grand Slam doubles titles, including two at Roland-Garros (2019 and 2020), teaming up with Hungarian Timea Babos.
“Caro and Kiki”, as the public encouraged them, returned to the Parisian Grand Slam final for the first time since 2016. They were dominated in the first set.
Three match points
But pushed by “Allez les Bleues”, as in the Fed Cup, or Billie Jean King Cup as the women’s national team competition is now called, they led 4-0 in the second set.
The Americans, who were teaming for the first time in a Grand Slam, came back to 4-3, but the French lined up 6 games in a row to tie a set all and again come away 4-0 in the deciding set.
This time, the French played tight and left no hope to their opponents, concluding on Mladenovic’s serve on the third match point, with a furious smash from Garcia.