Kgothatso Montjane puts on title-winning display at Roland Garros

The 39-year-old and her Japanese partner, who first won the Women's Wheelchair Doubles clay crown in 2023, put on an impressive display of resilience in the final, coming from behind to beat Chinese duo Xiaohui Li and Ziying Wang 4-6, 7-5, 10-7.

Having enjoyed a relatively smooth road to the final, winning their quarter-final and semi-final in straight sets, it was a true test of courage and endurance as they battled in a match-deciding tie-breaker in the third and final set on Court 7.

Montjane and Kamiji, who first partnered back in 2022, have now celebrated their fourth doubles Grand Slam title, having previously claimed the 2023 French and US Opens, as well as the 2024 Wimbledon crown.

The Seshego-born star had unfortunately fallen short in the women's wheelchair singles quarter-final to Netherlands' Aniek van Koot.

Elsewhere, South Africa's Donald Ramphadi and Turkish partner Ahmet Kaplan fell short in the men's quad wheelchair doubles final, finishing runners-up to Israel's Guy Sasson and partner Niels Vink of Netherlands after a 3-6, 4-6 straight-sets defeat. 

Ramphadi earlier fell 0-6, 3-6 to Netherland's Sam Schroder in the quad wheelchair singles quarter-final.

Men's singles player Lloyd Harris, ranked 227 in the world, made it through the qualifying rounds, but came up short in the first round, where he lost 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 1-6 to Russia's Andrey Rublev, who is ranked 15th in the world.

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