Chinese Taipei's first sister Xie Shuwei reunited with Latvian star "O sister" Ostapenko, and won the 2025 Madrid Tennis Tournament on the 25th local time. As the third seed in the tournament, the "Taila Alliance" swept Slovakia Mihalikova/British Nicoles 6:2, 6:2 to advance to the women's doubles round of 16.
Xie Shuwei re-produced with Latvian star "O sister" Ostapenko
The men's and women's co-op, WTA 1000-point clay tournament is taking place in the Spanish capital. After Xie Shuwei and Ostapenko teamed up again after nearly two months, they quickly found a tacit understanding on the spot, and after the night start and Khalikova/Nicoles broke each other twice, the experienced Xie Shuwei combination took the lead in recovering and won four games in a row from 2:2 to the first set. In the second set, "Xie Aopei" blocked the opponent's counterattack, resolved the break point and re-extended the offensive, and opened the gap again with a series of double breaks in the set, and locked the victory in straight sets, and will compete with Ukraine Kichenok/China's Xu Yifan for a ticket to the top 8 of women's doubles.
Xie Shuwei and the 2017 French Open women's singles champion Ostapenko from January this year, won the Australian Open, Dubai a total of two women's doubles runner-ups, and then switched to China's Zhang Shuai to compete in Indian Wells, last month's women's doubles semifinals upset Mihalikova/Nicoles, and now meet Xie Shuwei sweet revenge, which is also her and O sister since the brief parting of ways in late February, the second time to play together.