Berliner Tageblatt - Mertens and Zhang win Australian Open women's doubles title

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Mertens and Zhang win Australian Open women's doubles title / Photo: © AFP

Mertens and Zhang win Australian Open women's doubles title

SPORTS 31.01.2026

Belgium's Elise Mertens and Chinese partner Zhang Shuai clinched their first Grand Slam women's doubles title as a team Saturday when they downed Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic at the Australian Open.

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The fourth seeds, in only their seventh event together, were too good for the seventh-seeded Kazakh and Serbian pair on Rod Laver Arena, winning 7-6 (7/4), 6-4.

Currently ranked sixth, Mertens will reclaim the women's doubles world number one ranking with the victory.

It was a third Australian Open doubles crown for the experienced Belgian, who won in 2021 alongside Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and again in 2024 playing with Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei.

Zhang won the tournament with Australian Samantha Stosur in 2019.

J.Fankhauser--BTB

Berliner Tageblatt - Mertens and Zhang win Australian Open women's doubles title

Mertens and Zhang win Australian Open women's doubles title

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