In the doubles final of the 2025 Dubai Women's Open staged on the 22nd local time, the third seed Chinese Taipei first sister Xie Shuwei / Latvian Ostapenko lost in revenge, and the two lost to the top seed American Townsend / Czech Siniakova 6:7 (5:7), 4:6 again, and won the second runner-up, and the cooperation between the two also came to a temporary end.

Xie Shuwei (right) and Ostapenko (left)

After finishing runners-up in the women's doubles at the Australian Open earlier this year, the WTA 1,000-point tournament in the Middle East ended in the United Arab Emirates, and although Doha, which was also a 1,000-point tournament, the two found their chemistry in Dubai, and joined forces for the second time this season.

Facing Townsend/Siniakova who opened the bow left and right, Xie Shuwei/Ostapenko learned the lesson of last month's Australian Open championship match with a three-set defeat, and after two mutual battles in the opening match, after missing four set points in the first set, although the tie-break 7 was from 1:4 to catch up with 4 points ahead, but it was taken by a strong old enemy to win 3 points in a row.

In the second set, Xie Shuwei/Ostapenko tried to regain their strength, but they were broken in the 3rd and 5th games one after another, forming a large 1:5 deficit, and there was no way back, and in the 8th game, they broke back and fought back, rushing back to 3 games in one go, but Townsend/Siniakova returned to the end of the game to put out the fire, and closed the door with 4 consecutive points, smiling for the second championship of the season since Melbourne Park.

This is also the experienced Xie Shuwei, who won the women's doubles gold cup in Dubai for the fourth time in her career, but unfortunately fell short, and failed to win the championship again after five years after winning the second consecutive championship in 2019 and 2020. Ostapenko's partner in the North American "Sunshine Doubles" Indian Wells and Miami will be Australia's Peres.