Defaulted in doubles, Kato claims mixed doubles title

Defaulted in doubles, Kato claims mixed doubles title

Miyu Kato has left behind the frustration of her controversial disqualification in doubles by claiming the blended doubles title on the French Open.

Kato, a 28-year-old participant from Japan, and her girls’s doubles companion have been defaulted throughout their third-round match final week after Kato by accident hit a ball woman within the neck after a degree.

Kato additionally forfeited all of her 21,500 euros ($A34,500) in prize cash and rankings factors from girls’s doubles however was allowed to maintain collaborating in blended doubles.

Playing with Tim Puetz of Germany, they received the event by defeating 2019 US Open singles champion Bianca Andreescu of Canada and Michael Venus of New Zealand 4-6 6-4 10-6 after a brilliant tiebreak determined the result of Thursday’s match.

Source: www.perthnow.com.au