The French Open that took place in June was special for Barbora Krejcikova. She not only won the women’s singles title, but also won the women’s doubles title with Katerina Siniakova.
This meant that she became the first woman to sweep both women’s titles at a Grand Slam since Serena Williams achieved the feat at Wimbledon in 2016.
While Krejcikova is the first woman since Serena Williams at Wimbledon 2016 to sweep the singles and doubles title at a Grand Slam event, we have to go much farther back if we are looking at the French Open alone, France’s Mary Pierce (right) was the last woman to have achieved the feat at French Open, having managed it in 2000.
By defeating Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final of the 2021 French Open women’s singles event, Krejcikova won her maiden Grand Slam singles title.
This title, in fact, is only her second singles title ever. She achieved her first singles title at Strasbourg in May 2021 only.
After winning her women’s singles title, Krejcikova then teamed up with her long-time partner Katerina Siniakova to win the women’s doubles event as well. This is the duo’s third Grand Slam title, having already won the French Open and Wimbledon in 2018.
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