Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend are WTA 1000 champions once more, spoiling the reunion of Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider with a 7-6 (2), 6-2 victory in 1 hour and 29 minutes on Sunday to claim the 2026 Mutua Madrid Open title.<\/p>\n
The win gives Siniakova and Townsend their third straight WTA 1000 triumph after completing the Sunshine Double with titles in Indian Wells and Miami. It’s their sixth overall as a team and their fourth at the WTA 1000 level, along with two Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n
Already considered among the best doubles pairings in the sport, Siniakova and Townsend have now won 15 consecutive matches, a run that will vault them back to No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, when the new PIF WTA Doubles Rankings are released Monday. For Siniakova, it will mark her 181st week as World No. 1, good for third all-time. In claiming her 36th doubles title at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level, she has matched Sara Errani and Hsieh Su-wei for most among active players.<\/p>\n
Townsend, meanwhile, has won four consecutive titles when including her win in Austin in February. She is 21-1 in 2026, her lone loss coming in the Australian Open quarterfinals with Siniakova. The former World No. 1 now owns 15 doubles titles.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Performances like the one Sunday have given them the platform to do just that.<\/p>\n
With Andreeva placing a greater emphasis on singles this season, Shnaider partnered with several players early in the year but had yet to find a consistent fit. Despite being unseeded, the reunited duo rediscovered the spark that carried them to last year’s WTA Finals, knocking off No. 3 seeds Elise Mertens and Zhang Shuai and No. 8 seeds Ellen Perez and Demi Schuurs en route to the final.<\/p>\n
But the No. 2 seeds proved too much.<\/p>\n
Siniakova and Townsend dropped their first set of the week to Lyudmyla Kichenok and Desirae Krawczyk before surviving a tight 10-8 match tiebreak to escape the first round. They were untouchable from there, winning the rest of their matches — including the final — in straight sets.<\/p>\n
For a moment, that streak looked in jeopardy. Andreeva and Shnaider broke first for 2-1 after a Siniakova double fault, and Shnaider served for the set at 5-4. But she was broken at love, paving the way for a tiebreak. Siniakova and Townsend won the first three points and never trailed to close out the set in 54 minutes.<\/p>\n
That was all she(s) wrote. Siniakova and Townsend broke to open the second set and raced to a 5-1 lead, winning 24 of the first 29 points and not allowing Siniakova’s medicial timeout for her left knee slow them down. After a Shnaider hold, a pair of Townsend putaways set the tone in the final game. Siniakova followed with a forehand winner, and a couple points later Andreeva sent a forehand wide to deliver the trophy to Siniakova and Townsend.<\/p>\n
“I’m just so happy to be playing doubles again here,” Siniakova said. “So thank you so much for an amazing tournament. Anyone who is helping, you’re doing an amazing job.”<\/p>\n
For Siniakova, her second Madrid title is the latest chapter in a doubles r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that keeps expanding. In addition to her time at No. 1 and her 36 titles, she can boast 10 Grand Slam doubles titles, a Grand Slam in mixed doubles, Olympic gold medals in both doubles and mixed doubles, a WTA Finals crown and nine WTA 1000 titles.<\/p>\n
“You’re the best to ever do it,” Townsend said. “And I’m honored to be on the same side as you and to continue to make history with you. I don’t think there’s anyone who’s going to catch you, even me, but I’m happy to be able to do it with you, and not only call you a partner, but a friend as well.”<\/p>\n
Townsend’s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is formidable in its own right. A Wimbledon and Australian Open doubles champion, she is also a five-time Grand Slam runner-up across doubles and mixed doubles. Five of her 15 titles have come at the WTA 1000 level.<\/p>\n
She and Siniakova are now a perfect 4-0 in WTA 1000 finals will have a chance to add to those numbers in Rome, where they will chase a fourth straight WTA 1000 title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend are WTA 1000 champions once more, spoiling the reunion of Mirra Andreeva and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-16239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-madrid","9":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}