A nip-and-tuck battle
Rain came pouring down in Paris on Saturday after the women's final, and the roof remained close for the entirety of the match as the storm persisted, but the unique conditions didn't affect the quality of play.
The contest was nip-and-tuck throughout.
Dodig and Krajicek, who saved five match points against top-seeded Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the quarter-finals and toppled the No.8, No.1 and No.4 seeded duos to reach their first Grand Slam final as a team, were formidable on serve throughout the first two sets.
Though they failed to convert on any of their eight break points in the opening two sets, they were untouchable on serve.
Dodig and Krajicek did not face a single break point and eventually broke through in the first-set tiebreak, earning four set points when Arevalo double-faulted. On the next point Krajicek hammered a rocket serve that glanced off Rojer's racquet to clinch the opening set, 7-6(4).
Krajicek and Dodig held form for nearly all of the second set but the tides would turn in the 12th game, when Rojer saved three championship points while serving to force a tiebreak.
Arevalo and Rojer soldiered through a tight tiebreak, Rojer tapping a backhand volley winner to seal the set, and the pair carried their momentum forward into the decider.
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