2018 French Open – Women's doubles
2018 tennis event results / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about 2018 French Open – Women's doubles?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková defeated Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya in the final, 6–3, 6–3 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 2018 French Open. It was their first major title together.
Women's doubles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 French Open | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Final | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Champions | Barbora Krejčíková Kateřina Siniaková | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Runners-up | Eri Hozumi Makoto Ninomiya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Score | 6–3, 6–3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but did not compete together this year. Mattek-Sands partnered Latisha Chan, but was defeated in the second round by Irina Bara and Mihaela Buzărnescu. Šafářová partnered Svetlana Kuznetsova, but was defeated in the second round by Sorana Cîrstea and Sara Sorribes Tormo.
Despite losing in the first round with different partners, Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina jointly attained the world No. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament. Chan and Tímea Babos were also in contention for the top ranking.[1]