PARIS – Italian pairs Sarah Ellani and Jasmine Paolini beat Kazakh’s Anna Danilina and Serbian Alexandra Kroonik 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 to win the women’s doubles title at the French Open on Sunday.
This was the first Grand Slam trophy for the second seed Italian. He won the 2024 Olympic Doubles title in the same court last year.
It was also the second title for 38-year-old veteran Elani this week after winning the French Open Mixed Doubles title with his compatriot Andrea Vavassori.
The pair traded a break midway through the first set before the Olympic gold medalists who reached the final at the French Open last year, bagging it in a separate break 5-4.
Danilina, Australia’s 2022 open doubles finalist, easily won the second set, but broke twice at the start of the third set as the Italians took a 5-0 lead.
The sixth Italian in the doubles rankings concluded his first Grand Slam title as a pair when Crunic sank his forehand into the net.
Parini, who reached both the women’s singles and doubles finals at last year’s French Open, lost in the fourth round of this year’s single edition.