Top seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Jelena Ostapenko have won their first doubles crown as a duo after dashing the hopes of home hopeful Ellen Perez and Cristina Bucsa in the Brisbane International final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you Su-wei for playing with me, I think it\u2019s our first title together,\u201d Ostapenko said. \u201cWe had many finals and finally we made it through, so thank you for a really great week this week in general. I really love to play with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former world No.1 doubles player Hsieh rung in her 40th birthday in the Queensland capital last week and had further cause for celebration following the 6-2 6-1 result over the No.3 seeds.<\/p>\n
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Having fallen in their first three doubles final last season, including the Australian Open, it delivered the Chinese Taipei player her 36th doubles title and Ostapenko her 12th. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Both women had won the Brisbane doubles trophy before in with different partners \u2013 Hsieh alongside Czech Barbora Strycova in 2020 and Ostapenko a year later with Ukrainian Lyudmyla Kichenok.<\/p>\n
Perez was bidding to become the first Australian to win the women\u2019s doubles in Brisbane since Anastasia Rodionova prevailed alongside Alla Kudryavtseva 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to congratulate Su-wei and Jelena on an amazing match, you guys are quite a team,\u201d Perez said. \u201cWe struggled tonight but you guys were just too good so all the best for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to thank my partner Cristina. It\u2019s our first time playing together and a very last-minute pairing, but I really enjoyed sharing the court with you \u2026 It’s so amazing to play in front of a home crowd. I feel like this place was packed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Jelena Ostapenko have won their first doubles crown as a duo after dashing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,176511,72820,85,215209,747],"class_list":["post-405907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-international-tennis-tournament","tag-news-article","tag-sports","tag-su-wei-hsieh","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}