Xie Shuwei/Ostapenko stopped in the round of 16 of the Women's Doubles in Rome and will next prepare for the 2025 French Open

Chinese Taipei's first sister Hsieh Shuwei and Latvian star Ostapenko lost to Belgium's Mertens/Russia's Kudermetova at the 2025 Rome Tennis Tournament on the 11th local time 5:7, 2:6, and stopped in the women's doubles round of 16.

Chinese Taipei's first sister Hsieh Shuwei and Latvian star Ostapenko

Hsieh/Ostapenko teamed up again at the last tennis tournament in Madrid to reach the Women's Doubles semi-finals, where they won in the first round and met their former partner Mertens in the second round, where they won two Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon in 2021 and Australian Open in 2024.

The round of 16 was postponed by Kudermetova on the same day, Xie Shuwei/Ostapenko took the lead in the fifth game of the first set, and the two sides started a mutual break at the end of the set, although the Xie Shuwei/Ostapenko combination saved the opponent's 3 sets and successfully broke serve to 5:5, and was broken through again in the next game, and was "ahead of the Russian coalition forces".

Xie Shuwei/Ostapenko had a bad start in the second set, losing 4 points in a row in the first game, and then fell into a 0:4 disadvantage, and finally lost 2:6, missing the top 8, and will next prepare for the 2025 French Open tennis tournament at the end of the month.