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Italian duo Errani and Paolini win French Open women's doubles final

It was Errani’s second French Open doubles title, and her sixth at a major tournament
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Winners Italy's Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani celebrate with the trophy after the women's doubles final match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris on Sunday. AP/PTI
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Olympic gold medallists Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini won the French Open women’s doubles title for the first time.

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The second-seeded Italian pair, runners-up at Roland-Garros last year, beat Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 on Sunday.

It was Errani’s second French Open doubles title, and her sixth at a major tournament. The 38-year-old previously formed a highly successful partnership with Roberta Vinci, also winning trophies at the US Open, Wimbledon and Australian Open.

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Errani won two titles in Paris this year, also claiming the mixed doubles title with Andrea Vavassori.

Paolini is also an accomplished singles player and was runner-up at the clay-court Grand Slam last year, losing to Iga Swiatek in the final.

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Earlier, veterans Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos won the French Open doubles final for their first major title together, and at the combined age of 79.

Granollers, a 39-year-old from Spain, and his 40-year-old Argentine partner played in their fourth Grand Slam final as a pairing, but first at the clay-court major. They defeated British pair Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski 6-0, 6-7 (5), 7-5.

Granollers and Zeballos, who were seeded fifth in Paris, were runners-up at the US Open in 2019 and Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023.

Salisbury and Skupski were the first all-British team to reach a Grand Slam men’s doubles final in the Open era.

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