America’s Taylor Townsend has made it to the Wimbledon doubles finals for the first time! While Townsend achieved the British Grand Slam doubles finals with Eugenie Bouchard before, it was in the junior section. This time an unexpected incident drew her fate to one of the WTA stars with 25 titles on the doubles tour and together they created a new milestone for the American. Entering the finals with sheer joy, Townsend reveals the plot twist that made this partnership possible this year.

The American divulged an interesting incident that brought her the chance to pair up with Katerina Siniakova. The duo participated in the Wimbledon doubles and reached the finals against Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe. Speaking about it with the Tennis Channel, Townsend first revealed how she was committed to playing with Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia the whole season, who was playing with Storm Sanders. But then Sanders tore her Achilles. While her team’s Caroline Dolehide informed her about it, Townsend received a message from Siniakova on Instagram asking if she was interested in playing doubles.

This American WTA star said, “Then I looked on Instagram and I had a DM from Kat and was like, I don’t know if you saw what happened but you wanna play and I was like (Townsend laughs).” This incident brought Townsend and Siniakova’s fates together and helped them to fulfill their Grand Slam doubles dream in Wimbledon. Given that Siniakova has won 25 doubles titles on the WTA tour, she is nothing less than a legend in women’s doubles. Playing with her was a chance that Townsend couldn’t really let go of.

Despite that, Townsend also expressed her sadness over this decision. “I felt so terrible cause like I’ve never done that before cause I had like agreed to play with Bia for the whole year and try you know make your own championships,” she said.

Keeping aside the sadness, Townsend’s revelations of the plot twist also presented that she was interested in partnering with a talented player like Siniakova in doubles. She also took a hilarious dig at that and engaged in a funny banter with the hosts.

Taylor Townsend called her doubles partnership with Siniakova “a successful relationship from the DMs”

In the same interview, Townsend revealed that she knew that pairing up with Siniakova would have been a great choice. “I just knew that Kat was such a great player and I’ve played against her in a couple of Slam final like and I just knew that it would be a great pairing,” the American said. Listening to her story, the hosts joked with the WTA star saying how sliding into her DM worked. Townsend known for her funny personality, agreed to the statement and said, “It worked. this is the first time. This is a successful relationship from the DM so look at that!”

Townsend and Siniakova snapped a winning streak for Hsieh Su-wei, who has not lost a single doubles match at Wilmbledon since 2018. This year she was with Elise Mertens but Townsend and Siniakova prevailed 3-6,6-4,6-4. Now just one last hurdely remains for the pairing of a champion and the first timer at doubles on grass!