Fernandez and Townsend beat Gauff and Pegula to reach French Open women's doubles final


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PARIS — 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. The Canadian-American pair 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. They lost to Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic.

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