Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula win Doha doubles title

Unseeded Americans Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula notched their maiden team title with a victory in the Qatar TotalEnergies Open double final.

The all-American pairing of Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula had a superb week at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open, as the unseeded duo took the doubles title in Doha with a 3-6, 7-5, [10-5] victory over No.3 seeds Veronika Kudermetova of Russia and Elise Mertens of Belgium. Following the win Pegula said:

"We're super excited. I don't think we were expecting to win the tournament, let alone 1000. We said before, seriously, last week was the first match we won together. We have teamed up before but we've had some first-round exits. It's good to kind of find our chemistry a little bit on the court and get that going. That obviously paid off a lot this week."

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Gauff added:

"I always knew that we had the ability to be a good team. We both do well in singles, and both of us do well in doubles with other partners, so it was like, we have the tools. We just need to figure out how to use them. Finally this week, even last week, we kind of got the machine starting, and this week it just kind of ran through."