PARIS — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez fell just short in her quest to win her first Grand Slam title Sunday at the French Open.
If they could do that, anything was still possible.
Hsieh is now a two-time winner at Roland Garros and five-time Grand Slam doubles champion — with the other three titles coming at Wimbledon. Hsieh and Peng Shuai won the women’s doubles final at the 2014 French Open. Fernandez took the defeat pretty hard. “I mean, I keep it real. So I didn’t do it for the cameras or for the look or anything. I truly was looking at Leylah in her eyes, and I said, ‘No. So what that we lost. So what? It’s our first Slam,’ ” Townsend said. “We had opportunities, for sure, and so it’s easy to get caught up in that. So I could feel that it was emotional.
Throughout the ceremony, in which Fernandez addressed the crowd in French, Townsend kept an arm around Fernandez’s shoulder in solidarity.Article contentHer second-round loss in singles in Paris will drop her singles ranking from No. 49 to No. 94 on Monday. And that will make it more complicated to get into the bigger tournaments for the rest of 2023 unless she is able to start putting more wins together.
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