…all the champions have been decided or the finals set for this RG, with a slew of women’s and girls’ action on Friday before the singles final tomorrow.
In doubles, the top two seeds will face off to decide the title, as #1 Katerina Siniakova/Taylor Townsend defeated #4 Gaby Dabrowski/Luisa Stefani in the SF today, while #2 Anna Danilina/Aleksandra Krunic knocked off unseeded Shuko Aoyama & Liang En-shou. The same two teams, also the top two duos in the WTA Doubles Points Race, met to decide the Indian Wells title back in March, with Siniakova/Townsend taking what was the first leg of their Sunshine Doubles sweep.
It’s the third slam final in the last five majors (second straight RG) for Danilina/Krunic, who are so far 0-2. Personally, Danilina is winless in WD slam finals (0-3), but did claim the 2023 U.S. Open MX crown. The Bracelet is looking for her first.
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Siniakova/Townsend will be playing in their fourth slam WD final together, having won the ’24 WI and AO25 crowns with a RU at last year’s US.. Individually, it’s the sixth final for Townsend, and *fourteenth* for Siniakova, who’ll be seeking her eleventh doubles major and her fourth at RG.
Additionally, should Siniakova/Townsend win to pick up their *third* different slam title, they’d come to New York this summer with a chance at a Career Doubles Slam. If it happened, Siniakova would add to her Hall of Fame credentials by becoming the first player — men’s or women’s — to win Career Doubles Slams with two different partners. A while back, the Czech already joined with countrywoman Barbora Krejcikova to become the only women’s duo (joined only by the mens’ Bryan twins) to win all four majors, the year-end championships *and* Olympic Gold.
…#12 seeded Hordette Alisa Oktiabreva defeated #4 Jana Kovackova to reach the girls’ singles final, where she’ll face #2 Sun Xinran, who defeated #3 Victoria Luiza Barros.
Oktiabreva will look to become the fourth Russian to win the RG girls’ title (w/ Nadia Petrova ’98, Dasha Kasatkina ’14, and Alina Korneeva ’23). There were also two Soviet winners in a previous era (Yelena Granaturova in ’71, and Natasha Zvereva in ’87).
Sun would become the first Chinese girl to take the singles title in Paris. Of note, when Li Na became the first Chinese *woman* to win a major title, it happened in Paris in 2011. Sun was about ten and a half months old at the time, so she truly is the leading edge of what I long-ago dubbed the “Li Na Generation.”
Bannerettes Jordyn Hazelitt & Welles Newman will play for the girls’ doubles title against Czechs Jana Kovackova & Katerina Zajickova.
Teams with at least one Czech Crusher have won the last three juniors majors: Vendula Valdmannova at Wimbledon, and Jana & Alena Kovackova at the U.S and Australian Opens.
With 17-year old Alena’s last junior event having been this year’s AO, 15-year old Jana moves on with a shot at claiming her *third different* junior doubles crown. If she does, she’d head to Wimbledon with a shot to become the first player to ever complete a Junior Doubles Career Slam.
The Kovackovas lost in last year’s RG final.
…meanwhile, Diede de Groot rolled into her second straight ’26 wheelchair singles slam final with a SF win over top-seeded Yui Kamiji, 6-4/6-2. The win improves de Groot’s career mark in their head-to-head to 49-20 (17-3 in majors, though this was just their second slam meeting that *wasn’t* in a final).
De Groot seeks career singles slam #24, but she hasn’t won one since the ’24 Wimbledon. The Dutch great underwent hip surgery later that year, and during last year’s comeback season she had her first slam title-free year of her career (a streak that went back to 2017). She lost in the AO final in January to Li Xiaohui.
This time she’ll face 20-year old Pastry Ksenia Chasteau, who advanced to her first major final with an upset of #2-seeded Li.
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Though Kamiji lost to de Groot in singles, she still added to her career major haul by taking the doubles (her 23rd doubles major, 6th at RG) alongside Zhu Zhenzhen, who picked up the first of her career at age 37. They defeated the NextGen Dutch team of Jinte Bos & Lizzy de Greef, 6-3/6-0.
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…the wheelchair juniors are also contested at RG, and top-seeded Belgium Luna Gryp today swept the s/d titles, following up her AO win in singles with another win over #2 Seira Matsuoka of Japan, 6-2/6-2, and joined with Matsuoka to win the doubles with a victory over the USA/BRA pair of Lucy Heald & Paula Michelle Lopez Meza.
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(Q) Maja Chwalinska/POL vs. #8 Mirra Andreeva/RUS
#1 Siniakova/Townsend (CZE/USA) vs. #2 Danilina/Krunic (KAZ/SRB)
#1 Errani/Vavassori (ITA/ITA) def. Dabrowski/King (CAN/USA) 4-6/6-3 [10-4]
#4 Diede de Groot/NED vs. Ksenia Chasteau/FRA
#1 Kamiji/Zhu (JPN/CHN) def. Bos/de Greef (NED/NED) 6-3/6-0
#12 Alisa Oktiabreva/RUS vs. #2 Sun Xinran/CHN
#8 Hazelitt/Newman (USA/USA) vs. J.Kovackova/K.Zajickova (CZE/CZE)
#1 Luna Gryp/BEL def. #2 Seira Matsuoka/JPN 6-2/6-2
Gryp/Matsuoka (BEL/JPN) def. Heald/Lopez Meza (USA/COL) 6-4/6-2
…TO BE CONTINUED… ON DAY 13:
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*BEST STARTS TO SLAM CAREER AT A MAJOR (MD) – WOMEN*
33-0 – Monica Seles (AO 1991-96)
10-0 – Evonne Goolagong (RG 1971-72)
10-0 – Bianca Andreescu (US 2019-21)
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NOTE: Raducanu combined 10-0 (US Open 2021: 3 Q+7 MD)
** – Chwalinska combined 9-0 before RG26 final
*2026 WTA DOUBLES FINALS*
5 (4-0) = KATERINA SINIAKOVA
5 (4-0) = TAYLOR TOWNSEND
4 (3-1) = Zhang Shuai
4 (1-2) = ANNA DANILINA
4 (1-2) = ALEKSANDRA KRUNIC
3 (1-2) = Cristina Bucsa
3 (1-2) = Alona Ostapenko
[2026 finals – duos]
4…SINIAKOVA/TOWNSEND (3-0)
4…DANILINA/KRUNIC (1-2)
2…Dabrowski/Stefani (2-0)
2…M.Andreeva/Shnaider (1-1)
2…Hsieh/Ostapenko (1-1)
2…Maleckova/Skoch (1-1)
*RG WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS*
[doubles]
2007 Maaike Smit/Esther Vergeer, NED/NED
2008 Jiske Griffioen/Esther Vergeer, NED/NED
2009 Korie Homan/Esther Vergeer, NED/NED
2010 Daniela Di Toro/Aniek van Koot, AUS/NED
2011 Esther Vergeer/Sharon Walraven, NED/NED
2012 Marjolein Buis/Esther Vergeer, NED/NED
2013 Jiske Griffioen/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2014 Yui Kamiji/Jordanne Whiley, JPN/GBR
2015 Jiske Griffioen/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2016 Yui Kamiji/Jordanne Whiley, JPN/GBR
2017 Yui Kamiji/Marjolein Buis, JPN/NED
2018 Diede de Groot/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2019 Diede de Groot/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2020 Diede de Groot/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2021 Diede de Groot/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2022 Diede de Groot/Aniek van Koot, NED/NED
2023 Yui Kamiji/Kgothatso Montjane, JPN/RSA
2024 Diede de Groot/Aniek Van Koot, NED/NED
2025 Yui Kamiji/Kgothatso Montjane, JPN/RSA
2026 Yui Kamiji/Zhu Zhenzhen, JPN/CHN
*SOVIET/RUSSIAN JUNIOR SLAM WINNERS*
[USSR]
1965 Wimbledon – Olga Morozova
1971 Roland Garros – Elena Granatourova
1971 Wimbledon – Marina Kroshina
1975 Wimbledon – Natasha Chmyreva
1975 US Open – Natasha Chmyreva
1976 Wimbledon – Natasha Chmyreva
1986 Wimbledon – Natalia Zvereva
1987 Roland Garros – Natalia Zvereva
1987 Wimbledon – Natalia Zvereva
1987 US Open – Natalia Zvereva
[Russia]
1998 Roland Garros – Nadia Petrova
1999 Wimbledon – Lina Krasnoroutskaya
2002 Wimbledon – Vera Dushevina
2002 US Open – Maria Kirilenko
2006 Australian Open – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2006 US Open – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2007 Australian Open – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
2009 Australian Open – Ksenia Pervak
2010 US Open – Dasha Gavrilova
2014 Australian Open – Elizaveta Kulichkova
2014 Roland Garros – Dasha Kasatkina
2015 Wimbledon – Sofya Zhuk
2016 Wimbledon – Anastasia Potapova
2023 Australian Open – Alina Korneeva
2023 Roland Garros – Alina Korneeva
*CHINESE JUNIOR SLAM WINNERS*
2004 AO GD: Sun Sheng-nan
2014 WI GD: Ye Qiuyu
2018 AO GD: Wang Xinyu
2018 WI GD: Wang Xinyu/Wang Xiyu
2018 US GS: Wang Xiyu
*WC SLAM SINGLES FINALS – active*
31 – Yui Kamiji, JPN (11-20)
28 – DIEDE DE GROOT, NED (23-4)
17 – Aniek Van Koot, NED (3-14)
7 – Jiske Griffioen, NED (4-3)
2 – Li Xiaohui, CHN (1-1)
1 – Wang Ziying, CHN (1-0)
1 – KSENIA CHASTEAU, FRA (0-0)
1 – Kgothatso Montjane, RSA (0-1)
1 – Momoko Ohtani, JPN (0-1)
1 – Zhu Zhenzhen, CHN (0-1)
*WHEELCHAIR SLAM DOUBLES TITLES*
[AO-RG-WI-US]
24 – Aniek van Koot, NED [7-9-3-5]*
23 – YUI KAMIJI, JPN [5-6-8-4]*
21 – Esther Vergeer, NED [7-5-3-6]
19 – Diede de Groot, NED [5-6-3-5]*
16 – Jiske Griffioen, NED [6-3-3-4]*
12 – Jordanne Whiley, GBR [3-2-5-2]
*JUNIOR WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS*
[singles]
2022 US: Jade Moreira Lanai BRA
2023 US: Ksenia Chasteau, FRA
2024 RG: Ksenia Chasteau, FRA
2024 US: Yuma Takamuro, JPN
2025 AO: Vitoria Miranda, BRA
2025 RG: Vitoria Miranda, BRA
2025 US: Sabina Czauz, USA
2026 AO: Luna Gryp, BEL
2026 RG: Luna Gryp, BEL
[doubles]
2022 US: Jade Moreira Lanai/Maylie Phelps, BRA/USA
2023 US: Ksenia Chasteau/Maylie Phelps, FRA/USA
2024 RG: Ksenia Chasteau/Maylie Phelps, FRA/USA
2024 US: Rio Okano/Yuma Takamuro, JPN/JPN
2025 AO: Luna Gryp/Vitoria Miranda, BEL/BRA
2025 RG: Luna Gryp/Vitoria Miranda, BEL/BRA
2025 US: Sabina Czauz/Seira Matsuoka, USA/JPN
2026 AO: Lucy Foyster/Seira Matsuoka, GBR/JPN
2026 RG: Luna Gryp/Seira Matsuoka, BEL/JPN
*SLAM WHEELCHAIR JR. GIRLS’ SINGLES FINALS*
2022 US: Jade Moreira Lanai/BRA def. Yuma Takamuro/JPN
2023 US: Ksenia Chasteau/FRA def. Maylee Phelps/USA
2024 RG: Ksenia Chasteau/FRA def. Maylee Phelps/USA
2024 US: Yuna Takamuro/JPN def. Vitoria Miranda/BRA
2025 AO: Vitoria Miranda/BRA def. Sabina Czauz/USA
2025 RG: Vitoria Miranda/BRA def. Sabina Czauz/USA
2025 US: Sabina Czauz/USA def. Luna Gryp/BEL
2026 AO: Luna Gryp/BEL def. Seira Matsuoka/JPN
2026 RG: Luna Gryp/BEL def. Seira Matsuoka/JPN
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Dawn. No reboot. Xander. Giles. Sheesh, it’s too soon for this cast to be disappearing.
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TOP QUALIFIER: Claire Liu/USA
TOP EARLY-ROUND (1r-2r): #3 Iga Swiatek/POL
TOP MIDDLE-ROUND (3r-QF): #15 Marta Kostyuk/UKR (con. Top 10 wins to reach first major SF)
TOP LATE-ROUND (SF-F): x
TOP QUALIFYING MATCH: Q1: Oceane Dodin/FRA (PR) def. Kayla Day/USA 6-4/2-6/7-6(15-13) – saved 2 MP in TB, wins on MP #5
TOP EARLY-RD. MATCH (1r-2r): 1st Rd. – #7 Elina Svitolina/UKR def. Anna Bondar/HUN 3-6/6-1/7-6(10-3) – Bondar, who def. in Madrid, led 3-1 in 3rd set; Rome champ Svitolina avoids first 1st Rd. loss in RG career)
TOP MIDDLE-RD. MATCH (3r-QF): 3rd Rd. – #28 Anastasia Potapova/AUT def. #4 Coco Gauff/USA 4-6/7-6(1)/6-4 (DC Gauff 2 pts from win in 2nd; up 3-1 in 3rd)
TOP LATE-RD. MATCH (SF-F/Jr.-WC): x
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FIRST VICTORY: #27 Marie Bouzkova/CZE (def. Bronzetti/ITA)
FIRST SEED OUT: #21 Clara Tauson/DEN (1r – lost to Snigur/UKR)
FIRST SLAM MD WINS: Susan Bandecchi/SUI (1st MD), Marina Bassols Ribera/ESP (2nd MD), Francesca Jones/GBR (7th MD), Oleksandra Oliynykova/UKR (2nd MD), Kaitlin Quevedo/ESP (1st MD), Antonia Ruzic/CRO (3rd MD)
UPSET QUEENS: Switzerland
REVELATION LADIES: Poland (4-0 1st Rd. in consecutive ’26 majors)
NATION OF POOR SOULS: FRA (none of 14 in Q-draw reach MD; wild cards go 0-6 year after WC Boisson to SF; 2-7 1st Rd.; Boisson out 1r)
LAST QUALIFIER STANDING: Maja Chwalinska/POL (in Final)
LUCKY LOSER WINS: —
LAST WILD CARD STANDING: 0-8 in 1st Rd.
PROTECTED RANKING WINS: Jil Teichmann/SUI (in 3r)
LAST PASTRY STANDING: Diane Parry (4th Rd.)
Ms./Mademoiselle OPPORTUNITร : Marta Kostyuk/UKR and Diana Shnaider/RUS
IT “??“: Nominees: Andreeva (teen), Chwalinska (Pole/qualifier), Chasteau (NextGen WC…though I may just start a new WC-exclusive award with this RG)
COMEBACK: Hordettes (two Russians in RG SF for first time since 2009; at only second major in 17 years; Andreeva in final)
CRASH & BURN: #5 Jessie Pegula/USA (1r- lost to #83 Birrell, who’d lost 9 con. slam 1r matches and 3-13 career; Pegula led by 6-1/2-1 w/ break; second 1r loss in major since RG20) and #2 Elena Rybakina/KAZ (AO champ out 2r in 3rd set TB to #55 Starodubtseva)
ZOMBIE QUEEN OF PARIS: Elina Svitolina/UKR (1r- trailed Bondar 3-1 in 3rd; avoided first 1r RG loss in 13 app.; 3r- lost 1st to Bencic, faced BP early in 2nd, then won 15/17 pts, 11/14 games to end)
DOUBLES STAR: Nominees: Errani (MX defense), Siniakova/Townsend, Danilina/Krunic
VETERAN PLAYER (KIMIKO CUP): Sorana Cirstea/ROU (second RG QF 17 years after first)
Mademoiselle/Madame OF THE EVENING: Aryna Sabalenka (def. Osaka in first women’s night session match scheduled since 2023)
JUNIOR BREAKOUT: Nominees: Sun Xinran, Oktiabreva
Legion de Lenglen: 100th anniversary of Suzanne Lenglen’s last “grand slam” titles (RG WS/WD/MX sweep) in 1926 (she’d retire after controversial Wimbledon withdrawal and join professional tour that summer)
Coupe LA-PETIT-TAUREAU: Maja Chwalinska/POL – 5’5″ Pole reaches maiden slam QF in first RG MD on June 1 (Henin’s birthday)
