Czechia continues to have a fantastic summer season as Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik win the 2026 n combined doubles.
Muchova earns a long-awaited Grand Slam title after two earlier finals singles appearances on the 2023 French Open and final month’s Wimbledon ultimate the place she misplaced a heartbreaker to compatriot Linda Noskova.
Mensik, whose greatest win to this point was defeating Novak Djokovic on the 2025 Miami Open, seemed like a pure doubles star. He has not performed a lot doubles s in his younger profession. Mensik crowded the online and performed nice defensive tennis whereas delivering his trademark huge serves.
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Matching Adidas outfits labored for Muchova, Mensik
Muchova shared that Mensik was the explanation they dressed alike. He texted her the evening earlier than they took the courtroom for the primary time on August 25 coordinating their outfits. In her victory speech, she joked that the matching outfits labored.
Neither participant had ever received a doubles title of any sort.
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Lengthy evening of matches
Muchova and Mensik received shortly earlier than midnight concluding virtually 5 hours of tennis on Wednesday evening.
Semifinalists took the courtroom at 7 PM EDT. Prime quality tennis was performed within the three matches starting with Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli’s semifinal win over Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils. Muchova and Mensik received the second match over Mirra Andreeva and Andrey Rublev earlier than instantly turning round to plaly the ultimate.
All 4 finalists are finest identified for his or her singles achievements. Nonetheless, they delivered top quality combined doubles tennis to a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Like Muchova, Cobolli was a Grand Slam finalist earlier this yr dropping the 2026 French Open singles title to Alexander Zverev.
Fan-friendly format
Regardless of criticism concerning the abbreviated format, it’s fan-friendly and delivers a top quality combined doubles product for followers.
The one concern on the second day is the US Open’s bold time schedule with semifinal matches beginning at 7:00 PM and seven:50 PM adopted by a 9:00 PM ultimate that was unrealistic because the matches had been longer and extra aggressive. Every match was determined by the ten level third set tiebreak. There have been no straight set fast wins.
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