Wimbledon: Elise Mertens misses fourth consecutive doubles final with doubles partner
Belgian tennis player Elise Mertens and her Taiwanese doubles partner Hsieh Su-Wei lost in the last four against the Czech Katerina Siniakova and the American Taylor Townsend in three sets 3-6 and twice 6-4.
For Mertens, it is the first time in four years that she has not reached the doubles final at Wimbledon. In 2021, she won the Grand Slam together with Hsieh. Over the past two years - in 2022 with the Chinese Zhang Shuai and in 2023 with the Australian Storm Hunter - she was runner-up each time. In 2022, it was Siniakova and her compatriot Barbora Krejcikova who kept her from the title, and in 2023 Hsieh and the Czech Barbora Strycova followed in suit.
For Hseih, Wimbledon is not over yet. The 38-year-old will play in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles later on Friday. Alongside the Pole Jan Zielinski, she will compete with the New Zealand duo Michael Venus and Erin Routliffe. Mertens (WTA 33) lost last Wednesday in the second round of the singles against the British ex-winner Emma Raducanu (WTA 135).
Meanwhile, another Belgian Jeline Vandromme did not qualify for the semi-finals at the Wimbledon junior tournament on Friday. The sixteen-year-old from Bruges, number eleven in the world among the juniors, lost in her quarter-final against her Czech peer Vendula Valdmannova (ITF 36) in three sets 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4.
Vandromme, the European junior champion and winner of the Masters among the U16s last year, took part in a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in early June. She also reached the quarter-finals at Roland-Garros for juniors. Additionally, this season she won the overall victory at the Astrid Bowl, an international junior tournament on clay in Marcinelle near Charleroi.
Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh and Belgian Elise Mertens © BELGA PHOTO BENOIT DOPPAGNE
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