There will likely be a Canadian enjoying for some {hardware} throughout championship weekend on the Miami Open as Leylah Annie Fernandez and her American companion Taylor Townsend have superior to the ladies’s doubles remaining.
The duo mounted a formidable comeback late Friday night time to defeat Magda Linette and Bernarda Pera 1-6, 6-2, 14-12 within the semifinals and e book their place in Sunday’s remaining. Fernandez and Townsend have knocked out a number of formidable groups en path to the championship match together with Timea Babos/Kristina Mladenovic, Beatriz Haddad Maia/Giuliana Olmos, and Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko. They’ll have to drag off one other upset victory within the remaining towards the second-seeded American pair of Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula in the event that they hope to raise the winners’ trophies.
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That is Fernandez’s second WTA doubles remaining of the season and the second of her younger profession. She completed because the runner-up in Auckland on the yr’s first event alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands. As for Townsend, she’ll be seeking to seize her fourth WTA doubles title in her seventh profession remaining. She’s already received two crowns in 2023, each in Adelaide. Miami would be the first WTA 1000 doubles remaining for each gamers.
Gauff and Pegula are one of many prime doubles groups on the earth and collectively have received 4 WTA titles along with reaching the ultimate at Roland-Garros in 2022.
Fernandez and Townsend debuted as a crew on the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells a couple of weeks in the past and reached the quarter-finals. Sunday’s remaining on the Miami Open will likely be performed at 3:30 p.m. ET.
