Cincinnati, USA, 20 August 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Ellen Perez has fallen simply quick in her quest to win the largest doubles title of her profession.
The 27-year-old Australian and American accomplice Nicole Melichar-Martinez completed runners-up on the WTA 1000 match in Cincinnati.
American duo Alycia Parks and Taylor Townsend edged out a 6-7(1) 6-4 [10-6] victory within the last.
World No.12 Perez and world No.11 Melichar-Martinez made historical past with their efficiency in Cincinnati this week, turning into the primary group to succeed in back-to-back girls’s doubles finals within the Open period.
Nevertheless, the third seeds misplaced within the championship match for the second consecutive 12 months.
Perez nonetheless joins unique firm as solely the fourth Australian – and first in 50 years – to succeed in a number of girls’s doubles finals at Cincinnati within the Open period.
Cincinnati, girls’s doubles Australian finalists in Open period |
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Participant | Yr |
Kerry Harris | 1969, 1971 |
Helen Gourlay Cawley | 1970, 1971 |
Margaret Court docket | 1972 |
Evonne Goolagong Cawley | 1972, 1973 |
Janet Younger | 1973 |
Rennae Stubbs | 2010 |
Casey Dellacqua | 2015 |
Sam Stosur | 2021 |
Ellen Perez | 2022, 2023 |
Perez and Melichar-Martinez now flip their consideration to a WTA 250 match in Cleveland subsequent week, the place they’re the defending champions.
Aussies in motion – Cincinnati
RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, last
Alycia Parks (USA)/Taylor Townsend (USA) d [3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 6-7(1) 6-4 [10-6]
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