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Elise Mertens joined the final four duos in the women’s doubles at the Australian Open last night. Together with the Taiwanese Su-Wei Hsieh, our compatriot defeated the Dutch-Brazilian tandem Demi Schuurs/Luisa Stefani 6:4, 6:2. The game lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes.
The logic was respected: the second seeds beat the ninth. In doubles, Mertens is number 2 in the world, Hsieh is number 6.
Mertens won the Australian Open 2021 alongside Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, with whom she also won the US Open in 2019. In 2022 she lost to the Russian Veronika Koedermetova in the semi-finals in Melbourne. With Hsieh she won Wimbledon in 2021.
Schuurs is no stranger to Mertens, the world number 2 in doubles. They played together successfully in 2017 and 2018.
In the semifinals, Elise Mertens and Su-Wei Hsieh will fight against third seeds Storm Hunter/Katerina Siniakova (Aus/Cs), who defeated Barbora Krejcikova/Laura Siegemund (Csj/D) 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Hunter played successfully with Mertens in 2023. In the last two editions, Siniakova won the doubles title with Krejcikova at the first Grand Slam tournament of the season.
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