No. 8 seeds Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens are the 2025 Wimbledon ladies’ doubles champions after an enthralling final on Centre Court on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Kudermetova and Mertens fought past No. 4 seeds Hsieh Su-wei<\/a> and Jelena Ostapenko 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in a 2-hour and 23-minute thriller to take the championship trophy.<\/p>\n The victors made comeback after comeback on Sunday. After battling to level the match at one set apiece, Kudermetova and Mertens were down 4-2 in the third set — but they won the next four games to hoist the hardware.<\/p>\n “It’s an incredible feeling,” Mertens said in the champions’ press conference. “There is no feeling like winning The Championships. It was a very close match today. I was so happy that we converted our first match point. So, yeah, two happy people.”<\/p>\n Successful reunion: It is a big win for Kudermetova — she was the only player of the four who had not previously won a Grand Slam doubles title. Now she joins that list, four years after failing to convert two championship points in the 2021 Wimbledon doubles final.<\/p>\n “For the moment, I mean me, right now, [I don’t] feel that I’m Wimbledon champion in doubles,” Kudermetova said. “Maybe in the evening or tomorrow I will realize it.<\/p>\n “When I finish the match, I mean, was so emotional. I even start to cry a little bit, but then I saw Elise. She cry, [so] OK, I have to hold my emotion!”<\/p>\n This is Mertens’ fifth Grand Slam doubles title, and second at Wimbledon. She and Hsieh teamed up to win the 2021 Wimbledon doubles title — in fact, they were the ones who saved championship points and outlasted Kudermetova and Elena Vesnina in that aforementioned final.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 2025 Ladies’ Doubles Champions – Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n The pair recover from going a set down to defeat Su-Wei Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 and claim their first Grand Slam title together \u2728#Wimbledon<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/16sALGAsWr<\/a><\/p>\n