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Czech tennis players Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova won the gold medal in the women’s doubles of the Tokyo 2020 tournament this Sunday, after defeating the Swiss Belinda Bencic and Viktorija Golubic in the final.
Serial heads number 1 and winners in three Grand Slam tournaments (including the last Roland Garros, in which Krejcikova also won the individual), the Czechs clearly prevailed by 7-5 and 6-1.
The defeat prevents Bencic from making the double, as on Friday he won the Olympic singles final, defeating the also Czech Marketa Vondousova, but leaves Tokyo with two medals, one gold and one silver.
It is the third consecutive medal that the Czech Republic obtains in the women’s doubles, after the bronze won in Rio-2016 and the silver four years earlier in London.
The The bronze medal for the women’s doubles went to the Brazilians Laura Pigossi and Luisa Stefani, which on Friday defeated the Russians Elena Vesnina and Veronika Kedermetova, giving Brazil the first Olympic medal in this sport.
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