Australian Storm Hunter has the prospect to reclaim the world No.1 rating in a high-stakes Indian Wells girls’s doubles ultimate.
Indian Wells, USA, 15 March 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Storm Hunter has turn into the primary Australian in 14 years to advance to the Indian Wells girls’s doubles ultimate.
The 29-year-old Hunter and her Czech companion Katerina Siniakova secured their place within the championship match with a 6-4 6-4 victory at the moment towards American Asia Muhammad and Japan’s Ena Shibahara.
It’s the third seed’s fourth consecutive straight-sets win this match and units up a ultimate showdown with the highest seeds, Chinese language Taipei’s Hsieh Su-wei and Belgian Elise Mertens.
This can be a rematch of the Australian Open 2024 semifinals earlier this yr, the place Mertens and Hsieh gained a high-quality three-set battle.
World No.1 Mertens and world No.2 Hsieh ended the profitable run of Australian Ellen Perez and American Nicole Melichar-Martinez within the different semifinal at the moment, scoring a 6-2 7-6(5) victory.
In addition to competing for a WTA 1000 title within the Californian desert, the world No.1 rating is now up for grabs in a high-stakes ultimate.
Mertens is ready to lose the world No.1 rating regardless, as 38-year-old Hsieh will reclaim the highest rating for the primary time since November 2021 ought to they safe the title.
But when Hunter wins the title, she is ready to rise from world No.3 to overhaul Mertens, her former companion, atop of the WTA Tour doubles rankings.
| 2024 season data | ||
| Hunter/Siniakova | Mertens/Hsieh | |
| Wins | 14 | 11 |
| Losses | 2 | 3 |
| Titles | 1 | 1 |
| Head-to-head | 0 | 1 |
Hunter additionally has the prospect to turn into the primary Australian to win an Indian Wells girls’s doubles title since Sam Stosur in 2007.
Stosur was additionally the latest Aussie finalist on the match in 2010.
The ladies’s doubles ultimate is scheduled to be performed on Sunday morning (Australian time).
Aussies in motion – Indian Wells
RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, semifinals
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) d Asia Muhammad (USA)/Ena Shibahara (JPN) 6-4 6-4
[1] Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)/Elise Mertens (BEL) d [4] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 6-2 7-6(5)
COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, ultimate
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) v [1] Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)/Elise Mertens (BEL)
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