Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova will meet Robin Montgomery and Ashlyn Krueger in the 2026 US Open women's doubles final after both teams advanced with wins on Wednesday.
American Townsend and her Czech partner Siniakova, the No. 1 seeds at the 2026 US Open, advanced to the women’s doubles final for the second year in a row, overpowering No. 8 seeds Elise Mertens and Diana Shnaider, 6-0, 7-6(8).
As a team, Townsend and Siniakova have captured every other Grand Slam crown, including Wimbledon (2024), the Australian Open (2025) and Roland Garros (2026). Winning the women’s doubles title on Friday, Sept. 11, would give Townsend a career doubles Grand Slam.
Paired with a variety of partners, Siniakova has already completed one career Grand Slam and could clinch another with the New York title—a doubles double, in other words.
All that made for a lot riding on the line as Townsend and Siniakova stepped inside Louis Armstrong Stadium. But if they felt pressure, you couldn’t detect it in either their demeanor or play. The pair swept the first set, 6-0, in about 22 minutes.
In the second set, Mertens and Shnaider flipped the script with cleaner, more strategic play. They built a 5-2 lead but then fell prey to their opponents’ four-game winning streak. The set was soon level at 6-6, with Townsend and Siniakova winning the hotly contested breaker to close out the second set, 7-6(8), and the match.
Montgomery/Krueger win thriller with late surge
After Townsend and Siniakova’s win, two more Americans took to Armstrong Stadium. And, after mounting an audacious comeback, it was the team of Montgomery and Krueger who beat the No. 2-seeded team, Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(8).
This is a full-circle moment for Montgomery and Krueger, both 22, who won the 2021 US Open girls’ doubles championship when they were 17.
Dabrowski has had her best Grand Slam results at the US Open, winning the championship with Erin Routliffe, in both 2023 and 2025. And as a team, Dabrowski and Stefani reached the 2021 US Open semifinals.
In the first set, strong serving and aggressive play gave the more experienced pair the edge. Dabrowski and Stefani were efficient in closing it out, 6-4. In the second set, the Americans managed to keep pace and then, with a 5-4 lead, broke Dabrowski to grab the set, 6-4.
The third set was among the most exciting doubles sets in the tournament thus far. Proving themselves adept at playing from behind, the Americans slipped to a 2-8 deficit in the 10-point tiebreak. But they charged back, won eight points in a row, and took the set 7-6(8), and the match.
Men's doubles: Ram/Salisbury advance to semifinals
Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury opened the men's doubles quarterfinal action by upsetting the No. 2 seeds and defending champions, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, 6-4, 6-4.
Ram, from the U.S., and England’s Salisbury made US Open history by winning the men’s doubles championship three years in a row, from 2021-23, and also won the Australian Open in 2020.
Ram, age 42, also has a pile of Olympic medals, including a silver in mixed doubles with Venus Williams from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
For their part, Granollers, from Spain, and Zeballos, from Argentina, won the men’s doubles championship at Roland Garros in 2025 and 2026. Put another way, there was a lot of experience filing onto Court 5 for the Day 11 match.
Ram and Salisbury started strong, grabbing the first set, 6-4. A tricky breeze made lobs and looping groundstrokes sail and the lower-ranked players seemed to handle it better.
In the second set, Ram and Salisbury continued their dominant play to build a 4-1 lead. Granollers and Zeballos broke to launch a comeback. But they failed to stop their opponents' roll and Ram and Salisbury won the set, 6-4, and the match.
The No. 6 seeds, Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz from Germany, pulled off another upset, beating No. 3 seeds, Marcelo Arevalo, from El Salvador, and Mate Pavic, from Croatia, 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-6(7).
Arevalo and Pavic won the 2024 French Open championship together. Their best US Open result was a run to the semifinals in 2024, where they lost to none other than Krawietz and Pütz. Together, the Germans also advanced to the Wimbledon semifinals in 2026.
The seesaw match between the two seasoned teams featured momentum swings in every set. And, with two of the sets ending in a tiebreak, including a 10-point tiebreak to decide the match, it was a marathon, lasting two hours and 30 minutes.
The third men’s quarterfinal match of the evening starred the No. 1 seeds, Finland’s Harri Heliovaara and the United Kingdom’s Henry Patten, who defeated the No. 7 seeds, Guido Andreozzi and Manuel Guinard, 6-7(7), 7-6(3), 6-2.
Together, Heliovaara and Patten have won three Grand Slam doubles titles, most recently at Wimbledon this year, where they beat Andreozzi and Guinard in the quarterfinals.
If Andreozzi, from Argentina, and Guinard, from France, were seeking revenge, they were denied that pleasure. But they mounted a strong defense, taking the No. 1 seeds to two tiebreak sets before winning just two games in the third.
The fourth men’s quarterfinal contest saw No. 5 seeds Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski defeat No. 4 seeds Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, 6-3, 6-2, in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
As a team, Bolelli and Vavassori were runners-up at the Australian Open in 2024 and 2025, and their best US Open result was the third round in 2022 and 2024. With Sara Errani, Vavassori also won the US Open mixed doubles title in 2024 and 2025.
On the other side of the net was the team that won the 2026 Australian Open doubles championship. England’s Skupski, age 36, is the more decorated of the pair, having also won Wimbledon in 2023 and reached the final at the 2025 US Open. Harrison, age 32, from the U.S., advanced to the US Open third round in 2020 and 2018.
Harrison and Skupski appeared unfazed by the formidable challenge in front of them by claiming the first set 6-3. The pair refused to relent by racing to a 4-0 lead in the second, and secured their spot in the semifinals on Thursday in just under 90 minutes.
