In the final of the women's doubles at the Australian Open, one of the four major tennis tournaments, the pair of Shuko Aoyama and Eina Shibahara finished second after losing in straight sets to the No. 1 seeded Czech pair.
It was not the first time that a pair of Japanese players won the Grand Slam tournament.
At the Australian Open held in Melbourne, Australia, on the 29th, the final day of the tournament, the women's doubles finals and other events were held, with the pair of Aoyama and Shibahara being the No. 1 seeds, Czech Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova. Played against a pair of players.
In the first set, when the first game was broken, Aoyama responded quickly at the net and scored a volley. I dropped it with
Aoyama and Shibahara were also broken in the first game of the second set, and in the fourth game, Shibahara invited the opponent to make a mistake with an accurate stroke. Take consecutive.
However, they were overwhelmed by the opponent's heavy blows and took 3 games in a row from the 6th game, and at the end of the 9th game, Shibahara's shot hit the net and the score fell 3-6.
Aoyama and Shibahara lost in straight sets with a set count of 0 to 2, making it the first pair of Japanese players to win the Grand Slam tournament.
The winning pair of Krejcikova and Sinakova was a powerhouse who won three of last year's Grand Slam tournaments, and the 2018 French Open was the first pair of Japanese players to reach the finals of the Grand Slam women's doubles. So, I defeated the pair of Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya.