Mirra Andreeva suffers second straight final heartbreak as doubles return with Diana Shnaider thwarted in Madrid
WTASunday, 03 May 2026 at 19:30
Mirra Andreeva has been left in tears yesterday on Saturday after losing out to Marta Kostyuk and she has lost both finals so far this weekend after reaching the championship match also with Diana Shnaider at the Madrid Open.
Andreeva and Shnaider faced off with Siniakova and Townsend in the final with a 7-6, 6-2 win in favour of the experienced Czech-American pairing. The win gives Siniakova and Townsend their third straight WTA 1000 alongside with two Grand Slam titles.
Siniakova and Townsend have now won 15 consecutive matches, a run that will see them go back to World No.1 and World No.2 respectively. The new WTA Doubles Rankings are out tomorrow and for Siniakova it is her 181st week as World No.1 and in claiming her 36th doubles title, she has matched Sara Errani and Su-wei Hsieh all time.
Townsend has won four consecutive titles winning 21-1 in 2026 and the loss comes in the Australian Open Quarter-Finals in Siniakova. The former World No.1 now owns 15 doubles titles.
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"I think Katerina and I feel real honored to be able to push the game of doubles forward," Townsend said during the trophy presentation. "So thank you guys so much for supporting and coming out and cheering from start to finish. It really means a lot to us."
Andreeva placed a greater emphasis on singles this season and they returned for this week. They rediscovered the spark that carried them to the WTA Finals beating Mertens and Shuai and Perez and Schuurs en route to the final. But they lost out this week to the experienced pairing.
Siniakova and Townsend dropped their first set of the week to ichenok and Krawczyk but otherwise they have been dominant winning the rest of their matches including the final in straight sets. That streak nearly came up against Andreeva and Shnaider but in the end, it was a tie-break win for Siniakova and Townsend before breezing through the second.
So for Andreeva and Shnaider it is back-to-back losses for the former in both singles and doubles as she regroups and returns in Rome next week.
Their third WTA 1000 title in a row! 🏆@K_Siniakova & @TaylorTownsend defeat Andreeva/Shnaider 7-6(2), 6-2 in Madrid!#MMOPEN pic.twitter.com/N1JLyRA8VC
— wta (@WTA) May 3, 2026
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