US Open: Zhang Shuai and Samantha Stosur to face Coco Gauff and Caty McNally in doubles final

Veteran partnership on 10-win streak since reuniting earlier this year, yet to drop a set in five matches at US Open

Australian Open 2019 winners have gone one better than New York semi-final of 2018 but US teens stand in way of second slam win

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China’s Zhang Shuai and Samantha Stosur of Australia in their women’s doubles match against Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara, both of Japan, during the third round of the 2021 US Open. Photo: AP

Published: 11:25am, 11 Sep 2021Updated: 10:54pm, 11 Sep 2021

China’s Zhang Shuai and her doubles partner Samantha Stosur of Australia are into the 2021 US Open final after beating Desirae Krawczyk and Alexa Guarani, keeping up their unbeaten record since reuniting this year.

No 14 seeds Zhang and Stosur maintained their winning run, which took in their tournament win at the US Open warm-up Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, extending it to 10 matches.

They did so by seeing off the seventh seeds Krawczyk of the US and Chile’s Guarani in straight sets – 6-2, 7-5 – in just 72 minutes.

It would have been even quicker but for a fightback from the US-Chile pair with the second set score at 5-1. Eventually Zhang would serve out the match.

Zhang and Stosur are yet to drop a set in New York despite playing the seventh, 10th and third seeds on their way to the final.

Their reward is a final against the US teen pairing of Coco Gauff and Caty McNally, who progressed to the showpiece after Brazil’s Luisa Stefani retired hurt during the first set tiebreak in their semi-final.

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