Canada' Leylah Fernandez fell just short in her quest to win her first Grand Slam title Sunday at the French Open.
Fernandez and American partner Taylor Townsend were defeated 1-6, 7-6 , 6-1 by the unseeded team of Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and and Wang Xinyu of China in the women's doubles final at Roland Garros stadium.
But they knew the wily, unpredictable Hsieh, a 37-year-old former doubles No. 1 just returning from 18 months away from the game, would make adjustments. Crunch time came in the fifth game of the third set when, down 1-3, Fernandez and Townsend had four break points to get the match back on serve.But they couldn’t convert. Notably, Fernandez had a couple of open-court looks on the cross-court backhand return, with Hsieh committing towards the middle of the court early. But she netted both.
“I think we were just so close and there's just a couple of mistakes from my part in key moments and I was just, like, if I could have done a different play here and there, maybe the result would be different. We'll never know,” Fernandez said. “I'm just super proud the way that we found solutions for every match since the very beginning. We just kept getting better and better and communicating better.
“I've now been in two Grand Slam doubles finals. She's been in a Grand Slam singles final. It's just experience. We chalk it up and we move forward. But this isn't the end. It's only June,” Townsend added.
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