Elise Mertens (WTA 4 in doubles), associated with the Taiwanese Su-wei Hsieh (WTA 1), was beaten in the Masters doubles final on Wednesday in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The Belgo-Taiwanese pair, seeded N.3, lost 3-6; 4-6 against the Czechs Barbora Krejcikova (WTA 3) and Katerina Siniakova (WTA 2), Olympic champions and seeded N.1, in the final of the WTA Finals, the closing event of the season which brings together the best players of the year and which is endowed with 5 million dollars.
Elise Mertens, 25, and Su-wei Hsieh, 35, have won Wimbledon and Indian Wells this season for the first year of their collaboration. Elise Mertens for her part added two successes in 2021 at the Australian Open with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, her former partner and in Istanbul (WTA 250) with Russian Veronika Kudermetova.
Elise Mertens was playing her first Masters final. Never has a Belgian won the tournament in doubles. In singles, Kim Clijsters had won three times, in 2002, 2003 and 2010, while Justine Henin had registered her name on the charts in 2006 and 2007.
This twelfth joint title for the Czech pair Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova crowns a successful season for them, already winners in Melbourne in February, in Madrid in April, at Roland Garros in June and Olympic gold medalists in August. in Tokyo.
Krejcikova was also involved in singles, but was eliminated in the group stage.
