Leylah Fernandez, Taylor Townsend oust Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula to reach Roland Garros doubles final

PARIS (AP) — Leylah Fernandez and Taylor Townsend reached the women's doubles final at the French Open by beating second-seeded Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula 6-0, 6-4 on Friday.

"I'm just honestly so proud of how we were able to play and perform," Townsend told press. "I told Leylah after the match, This is what we have been building towards over the past couple of months."

The Canadian-American pair, seeded 10th, will face unseeded Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Wang Xinyu of China in Sunday's final.

Hsieh and Wang upset sixth-seeded Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

Gauff and Pegula were last year's runner-up in women's doubles at Roland Garros, where the Americans lost to Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic.

"I'm really proud of how we were able to kind of put our last result behind us," Townsend said. "We lost to Jess and Coco in the finals in Miami, and we were able to kind of, like, learn from it, detach from the result, and then just understand and take what we learned in that match and apply it into this one.

"I'm so proud of like how we were able to stay focused and committed to what we were doing on our side of the net and not worry about what they were doing."

The 37-year-old Hsieh is a four-time Grand Slam doubles champion. Hsieh and Peng Shuai won the women's doubles title at the 2014 French Open.

It will be the first Grand Slam final in doubles for Fernandez, the 2021 US Open runner-up in singles.

"Whether it's in singles, doubles, mixed doubles—any player in this tournament would dream to play a Grand Slam and win and to hoist the trophy and have the trophy at home, to have the opportunity to play on Sunday on Chatrier," Fernandez said.

Townsend, in her only other major final, was runner-up with Caty McNally at last year's US Open to Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.