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Italian Duo Defends French Open Mixed Doubles Title
On Thursday, Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and American partner Evan King lost the French Open mixed doubles final in Paris, falling to top-seeded Italians Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori.
Reigning champions Errani and Vavassori successfully defended their Roland Garros title, securing their fourth mixed doubles trophy in the last seven Grand Slam tournaments, including back-to-back U.S. Open titles in 2024 and 2025.
After winning the first set 6-4, Dabrowski and King dropped the subsequent sets 3-6 and 10-4 on Court Philippe Chatrier, marking the first successful title defense since Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan in 2018 and 2019.
Despite the loss, Dabrowski remains in contention for a title at Roland Garros, playing in the women's doubles semifinal on Friday with partner Luisa Stefani of Brazil.
The semifinal pits Dabrowski and Stefani against Czechia's KateYina Siniakov and American Taylor Townsend, while Canada's Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the French Open after losing his quarter-final to Italy's Flavio Cobolli.
Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori are confirmed the queen couple of the double mixed world. The two blues won for the second year in a row the title of the Roland Garros, according to Slam of 2026 stage on the fields in red earth of Paris, beating in the final the pair formed by the Canadian Gabriella Dabrowski and the American Evan King, in three sets with the score of 4-6, 6-3, 10-4 in the super tiebreak. In the bulletin boards of "Sarita" and …