The Chinese women's doubles Rome was defeated by Waterloo, and all four teams were in the first round

In the development of Chinese tennis, women's doubles has always had a strong stroke. As early as the 2004 Athens Olympics, Li Ting's partner Sun Tiantian won the women's doubles gold medal as the No. 8 seed.

There are even more Grand Slam titles in women's doubles, with 1989-born veteran Zhang Shuai winning the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open with Stosur.

At the beginning of this season, when a group of singles players were in relatively average condition, it was still the women's doubles that stood up first, among which Yuan Yue partnered Blinkova to win the WTA 250 Austin women's doubles title, and the runner-up in this stop belonged to Zhang Shuai/Kessler.

Zhang Shuai has also continued to partner with different opponents this year, and has achieved excellent results in a number of competitions, including the WTA 500 Abu Dhabi Women's Doubles with Mladenovic in the final, and then lost to Ostapenko/Pérez to finish as runners-up.

WTA 500 Stuttgart Women's Doubles partner Alexandrova also reached the final, but lost 3-6 3-6 to Dabrowski/Lutliff.

Although Zhang Shuai was the runner-up in many tournaments, she returned to the top 10 in women's doubles at the end of last month and became the current first sister of China's women's doubles.

In the WTA1000 Rome tournament, a number of Chinese golden flowers appeared in the doubles court, including Zhang Shuai and Siniakova as the No. 2 seeds in the tournament, and the two faced Samsonova/Merichar in their first match.

In the end, Zhang Shuai won the first set 6-2 and failed to advance to the next round with an aggregate score of 6-2 0-6 4-10.

Meanwhile, with Mladenovic confirming his withdrawal from this year's French Open, Zhang Shuai's choice for the French Open Women's Doubles partner continues to be in doubt.

Also unfortunate were Wang Xinyu/Zheng Saisai, who faced the duo of Walmers/Zhan Haoqing with a set each, and the match entered the final tie-break.

In the final tie-break, Wang Xinyu/Zheng Saisai once held a 7-3 advantage, but was still reversed by the opponent and lost with a score of 7-10, and the two also suffered a wave of three consecutive defeats.

Veteran Xu Yifan partnered Japan's Makoto Ninomiya in Rome this year, and his original partner Yang Zhaoxuan withdrew, and the two were temporary partners, and the strength of first-round opponents Fernandes/Putintseva should not be underestimated, and finally the opponent was eliminated in straight sets (3-6 2-6).

Jiang Xinyu/Wu Fangxian faced third seeds Paulini/Errani in the first round, and the two lost 3-6 4-6.

So far, this is also the first time this season that in one tournament, Chinese Jinhua has stopped in the first round of the doubles competition.(Source: Tennis House Author: Barbie)