{"id":449410,"date":"2026-01-31T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449410\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:19:07","slug":"kovackova-sisters-claim-ao-2026-junior-girls-doubles-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449410\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovackova sisters claim AO 2026 junior girls\u2019 doubles crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sisters <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/czechia\/alena-kovackova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alena Kovackova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/czechia\/jana-kovackova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jana Kovackova<\/a> won the AO 2026 junior girls\u2019 doubles final on Saturday against Tereza Hermanova and Denisa Zoldakova in an all-Czechia battle, emerging victorious with a comfortable 6-1 6-3 result at Margaret Court Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/results#!All\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE: All the scores from Day 14 at AO 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great tournament and I really enjoyed playing here,\u201d Alena smiled, looking over at her sister holding their trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very nice here, very nice environment and [we] like it here. On the other hand, it&#8217;s very fast courts, which [we] don&#8217;t like that much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Kovackovas won the match with almost clinical efficiency, securing the first set in just 22 minutes with 25 points won to Hermanova and Zoldakova\u2019s 16.<\/p>\n<p>The second set followed a similar rhythm; while Hermanova and Zoldakova turned up the pressure, the sisters closed in on the doubles trophy with a 30-minute second set with 76 per cent of first serve points won. A tally of 29 winners to their opponents\u2019 14 helped them maintain a healthy buffer.<\/p>\n<p>Doig and Kisimov crowned boys\u2019 doubles champions<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/south-africa\/connor-doig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Doig<\/a> and Bulgarian partner <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\/bulgaria\/dimitar-kisimov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dimitar Kisimov<\/a> hoisted the Australian Open 2026 junior boys&#8217; doubles trophy after defeating Aussie duo Ymerali Ibraimi and Cooper Kose 6-3 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first Grand Slam title the pair have won together, and they kept their approach simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinals is obviously a bit more pressure, but we just try to keep it simple and just play point by point as we&#8217;ve done the whole tournament,\u201d said Doig.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s what has] worked for us, so why change our winning strategy?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sisters Alena Kovackova and Jana Kovackova won the AO 2026 junior girls\u2019 doubles final on Saturday against Tereza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-449410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449410","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=449410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}