French Open: Liang En-shuo and Shuko Aoyama advance to women's doubles round of 16

In the French Open women's doubles round of 32 held today, Taiwan's "Little Cannon" Liang En-shuo and her Japanese partner Shuko Aoyama defeated the tournament's 5th seeds, Jelena Ostapenko and Erin Routliffe, 7-5, 6-4, successfully advancing to the round of 16 and continuing their strong performance in Grand Slam women's doubles. The 158cm-tall Liang En-shuo and the 38-year-old, 154cm-tall Shuko Aoyama faced off against Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe in a "David vs. Goliath" matchup. In the first set, both sides traded service breaks early on, but the Taiwan-Japan duo broke their opponents' serve again while leading 3-2 to take a crucial 4-2 lead. Unfortunately, after missing three set points in the 8th game, they were caught up by their opponents, leveling the score at 5-5. Fortunately, after holding their own service game, Liang and Aoyama broke their opponents' serve in the decisive 12th game on their second set point to take the first set. In the first 8 games of the second set, both sides traded two service breaks, tying the score at 4-4. Subsequently, Liang and Aoyama held their service game and secured the victory in the decisive 10th game on their first match point. As for Taiwan's "Queen of Doubles" Hsieh Su-wei, she and her Chinese partner Wang Xinyu were defeated 1-6, 4-6 today, stopping in the round of 32 and missing the chance to challenge for her third career French Open women's doubles title.