2025 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
Kateřina Siniaková and Taylor Townsend defeated defending champion Hsieh Su-wei and her partner Jeļena Ostapenko in the final, 6–2, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 2025 Australian Open. It was their second major title as a team, and the second major title overall for Townsend and tenth for Siniaková. Siniaková became the first woman to win a tenth major doubles title since Martina Hingis at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships. Hsieh and Elise Mertens were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Mertens partnered Ellen Perez, but lost to Marta Kostyuk and Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the second round. Siniaková retained the world No. 1 doubles ranking by reaching the semifinals. Erin Routliffe was also in contention for the top ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 Seeded teams The following are the seeded teams. Seeding ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kateřina Siniaková
Kateřina Siniaková (; born 10 May 1996) is a Czech professional tennis player. She is the current List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. She also has a best singles WTA rankings, ranking of No. 27 by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, achieved in June 2024. Siniaková is a ten-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major champion in women's doubles. She won seven of her major titles in her Krejčíková–Siniaková doubles team, longtime partnership with compatriot Barbora Krejčíková, with whom she completed the Grand Slam (tennis)#Super Slam, career Super Slam. She has won three other women's doubles majors, partnering Coco Gauff and Taylor Townsend. Siniaková became world No. 1 for the first time in October 2018 and has held the top ranking in doubles for a total of 153 weeks, the fourth-longest total since the beginning of the WTA rankings. Siniaková has won 30 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 WTA Finals – Dou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lyudmyla Kichenok
Lyudmyla Viktorivna Kichenok (, ; born 20 July 1992) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in doubles. She is a two-time Grand Slam champion winning the 2024 US Open with Jeļena Ostapenko and the 2023 Wimbledon Championships with Mate Pavić becoming the first Ukrainian to do so. Kichenok has won ten additional doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including four with her twin sister, Nadiia. On 21 July 2014, she reached a her career-high singles rankings of No. 156. Career 2015: WTA Tour doubles title, singles top 10 win In 2015, she won her first WTA Tour doubles title together with her sister. They escaped a 5–0 deficit in the second set tie-break of their 6–4, 7–6 defeat of Liang Chen and Wang Yafan in the Shenzhen Open final. This win made the Kichenoks the second pair of twins, after Karolína Plíšková and Kristýna Plíšková, to win a tour doubles title. They previously had been runners-up at Tashkent in 2011, an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tímea Babos
Tímea Babos (; born 10 May 1993) is a Hungarian professional tennis player who is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. She has won three WTA Tour titles in singles and 27 in doubles. Babos is a four-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament champion in women's doubles, having won the 2018 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2018 and 2020 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2020 Australian Opens, as well as the French Open in 2019 French Open – Women's doubles, 2019 and 2020 French Open – Women's doubles, 2020, all alongside Kristina Mladenovic. Babos and Mladenovic were also finalists at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2014 Wimbledon Championships, 2018 US Open – Women's doubles, 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2019 Australian Open, and Babos reached the final of the 2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2016 Wimbledon Championships with Yaroslava Shvedova ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexandra Panova
Alexandra Alexandrovna Panova (; born 2 March 1989) is a Russian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of world No. 30 achieved on 28 October 2024. She peaked at No. 71 in singles on 30 July 2012. She has won eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour. On the ITF Women's Circuit, she won two of her 16 doubles titles with her older sister, Olga Panova. Career 2009 In January, Panova obtained an invitation from the ''Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association'' to play JB Group Classic with her compatriot Anna Chakvetadze (she replaced Maria Sharapova for injury) and Vera Zvonareva, and then she entered the Australian Open women's qualifying singles unseeded and made it to the qualifying third round, before losing to unseeded Julia Schruff of Germany, in two sets. 2010–2013: Major debut, three WTA 250 doubles titles In August, Panova made her Grand Slam debut at the 2011 US Open by coming through qualifying. In the first r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Guo Hanyu
Guo Hanyu ( zh, s=郭涵煜, p=Guō Hányù; ; born 18 May 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. On 4 March 2024, she peaked at world No. 35 in the doubles rankings. On 23 October 2017, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 278. She has won four WTA Tour doubles titles, along with four titles in singles and eleven in doubles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career 2017: WTA Tour doubles debut Partnering Ye Qiuyu, Guo made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2017 Tianjin Open, after defeating Dalila Jakupović and Nina Stojanović in qualifying. 2023: Maiden title, WTA 1000 debut Guo won her first WTA title at the 2023 Guangzhou Open with Jiang Xinyu. She reached the final of the 2023 Ningbo Open with Jiang Xinyu. She received a wildcard for the WTA 1000 China Open in doubles with Jiang. She received a wildcard for the WTA 500 Zhengzhou Open in singles but lost to Lucia Bronzetti. At the same tournament, she also received a wildcard in the doubles event w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ena Shibahara
is an American-born Japanese professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She reached her career-high rankings of world No. 4 in doubles and No. 119 in singles. Shibahara has won eleven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including two WTA 1000, the 2021 Miami Open and the 2023 National Bank Open. Shibahara won her first major title at the 2022 French Open, alongside Wesley Koolhof in mixed doubles. Partnering with Shuko Aoyama, she reached the women's doubles finals at the 2023 Australian Open, in addition to the semifinals at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, the 2022 Australian Open, and at the 2021 WTA Finals. She made her Billie Jean King Cup debut for Japan in 2020, and also participated in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Until July 2019, Shibahara represented her country of birth, the United States. College In 2016, she graduated from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School and attended UCLA before turning pro after her sophomore season. Professional 2016: M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Veronika Kudermetova
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a best WTA doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 6 June 2022. In doubles, she has won eight WTA Tour titles including three WTA 1000, and the 2022 WTA Finals – Doubles, 2022 WTA Finals with Elise Mertens. In addition, she reached the doubles final of Wimbledon in 2021, with Elena Vesnina. She has also won two WTA singles titles. Kudermetova won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2021 Volvo Car Open, 2021 Charleston Open, and her first WTA doubles title at the 2019 Wuhan Open, partnering Duan Yingying. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut in singles at the 2018 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, and in doubles at the 2014 Kremlin Cup, partnering with Evgeniya Rodina. Playing for the Russia Fed Cup team, Kudermetova has a win–loss record of 3–4. Personal life Kudermetova was born to Eduard Kudermet ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Monica Niculescu
Monica Niculescu (born 25 September 1987) is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA as high as No. 28 in singles and No. 11 in doubles. She has won three singles and 10 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and three doubles titles on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She was ranked within the top 30 for several years in singles. Niculescu entered the Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam doubles final at 2017 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, Wimbledon 2017 tournament, together with Chan Hao-ching. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles in all Grand Slam championships. In WTA 1000 tournaments, WTA 1000 tournaments, she got into three finals (doubles), six semifinals (five in doubles), and 12 quarterfinals (11 in doubles). In singles, her best Grand Slam performance is reaching round four, which she did at the 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sofia Kenin
} Sofia Anna "Sonya" Kenin (born November 14, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as world No. 4 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, and No. 26 in doubles. Kenin was named the 2020 WTA Player of the Year, an award earned by winning the 2020 Australian Open – Women's singles, Australian Open and finishing runner-up at the 2020 French Open – Women's singles, French Open. She has won five singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, the latter including the 2019 China Open – Women's doubles, 2019 China Open and 2024 Miami Open – Women's doubles, 2024 Miami Open partnering Bethanie Mattek-Sands. Coached primarily by her father, Kenin developed into a promising junior player, reaching No. 2 in the world after winning the Orange Bowl (tennis), Orange Bowl at the age of 16 and finishing runner-up in the 2015 US Open – Girls' singles, 2015 US Open girls' singles event the following year. She also won the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zhang Shuai
Zhang Shuai ( zh , s = 张帅 , p = Zhāng Shuài ; ; born 21 January 1989) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high doubles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 2, achieved in July 2022 and a singles ranking of No. 22 reached in January 2023. She is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, Grand Slam tournament champion in women's doubles, having won the 2019 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open – Women's doubles, 2021 US Open, both alongside Samantha Stosur. Zhang also finished runner-up at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships and 2024 US Open – Women's doubles, 2024 US Open, and has reached six further semifinals across women's and mixed doubles. She has won a total of 14 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including the 2021 Western & Southern Open – Women's doubles, 2021 Cincinnati Open with Stosur. Zhang has also qualified for the WTA Finals on two occasions. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kristina Mladenovic
Kristina "Kiki" Mladenovic (born 14 May 1993) is a French professional tennis player and a former List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 in doubles. Her best singles ranking is world No. 10. She is a nine-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2016 French Open – Women's doubles, 2016 and 2022 French Open – Women's doubles, 2022 French Open women's doubles titles partnering Caroline Garcia, and the 2018 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2018 Australian Open, 2019 French Open – Women's doubles, 2019 and 2020 French Open – Women's doubles, 2020 French Opens and 2020 Australian Open – Women's doubles, 2020 Australian Open with Tímea Babos. In mixed doubles, Mladenovic won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships and 2014 Australian Open alongside Daniel Nestor, and the 2022 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2022 Australian Open with Ivan Dodig. She has also reached a further six major finals across women's and mixed doubles. Mlad ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Irina Khromacheva
Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva (; born 12 May 1995) is a Russian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 14 in doubles achieved on 3 March 2025 and No. 89 in singles, reached on 27 February 2017. Personal life Irina was born to Pavel and Natalya Khromacheva, on 12 May 1995 in Moscow. She trained at the Justine Henin Academy in Belgium. Khromacheva states that she doesn't have a favourite surface and likes everything. She started playing tennis at the age of four. Khromacheva, after her unsuccessful partnership with a Belgian coach, is now coached by Larisa Savchenko in Riga. Career 2010-2011: Juniors Khromacheva had a breakthrough on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2008, winning her first title at the Junior Zagreb Open. In 2009, she won four junior titles and competed for the first time at the French Open and US Open, losing in the first round at both tournaments. In 2010, she won four junior titles and became junior wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |