Tokyo Olympics Tennis Center: Follow the action “When I think about playing with Zina, and my gold medal from 1988, it feels just the same as if it as from singles,” Shriver said. Shriver has her own gold medal, from the Seoul, South Korea Olympics when she won doubles with Zina Garrison. Women’s doubles – two golds, two silvers, two bronze (6). Women’s singles – gold, silver, bronze (3). Three players remain in two draws at #Tokyo2020.Įlena Vesnina - Doubles & Mixed Doubles #Tennis | #Olympics /gSpLHmv1Wu While most of the attention at the Tokyo Olympics is focused on singles, doubles provides three times the opportunities to medal: Volleying skills separate Barty and Krejcikova from many players and add to the pleasing (and successful) variety in their games. You can only act like you’ve been there – if you’ve been there.”ĭoubles is an excellent training ground for strategy, and it often puts you in spots that are sometimes unusual in singles, i.e., the net. “That comfort zone, having been in those major quarters, semis and finals, helped her in Paris this year. “I thought it was the reason Krejcikova won the French Open, because she had been there in doubles,” said Pam Shriver, a 22-time Grand Slam doubles champion. READ Tokyo 2020 Day semifinals preview: What's at stake for the final four at the Olympics That Barty (2019 French Open and 2021 Wimbledon) and Krejcikova (2021 French Open) would eventually break through in singles wasn’t terribly surprising. Krejcikova won the 2018 French Open and Wimbledon championships with Katerina Siniakova, and three consecutive Australian Open mixed titles, with Andy Ram and Nikola Mektic. Well before they were Grand Slam singles champions, Ashleigh Barty and Barbora Krejcikova made their first big impressions lifting major doubles trophies.īarty reached the 2017 French Open final with Casey Dellacqua, won the 2018 US Open title with CoCo Vandeweghe and made the 2019 US Open final with Victoria Azarenka.
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