Eliser Mertons (Belgium) and Arina Savalenka (Belarus) won the women’s doubles championships at the Australian Open tennis tournament (A$80 million, about 66.8 billion won).
Mertons-Savalenka defeated Caterina Siniakova-Barbora Creichkova (Czech Republic) 2-0 (6-2 6-3) in the women’s doubles final on the 12th day of the tournament held in Melbourne, Australia on the 19th. .
Mertons and Savalenka, who jointly won the doubles championship at the 2019 US Open, reached the top of the doubles in their second major tournament. The prize money for the championship is 600,000 Australian dollars, and about 520 million won in Korean money.
Mertons and Savalenka advance to the round of 16 side by side in the singles of this tournament, and they have a total of AUD 620,000, which is a total of AUD 320,000, and half of the winnings for doubles.
In the current doubles world rankings, Savalenka is 5th and Mertons 6th, and runner-up Creitchkova is 7th and Siniakova is 8.
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