By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday September 6, 2024
New York—No marriage ceremony. However a Grand Slam title as an alternative.
Ukraine’s Lyudmila Kichenok was purported to get married on Wednesday to fiance Stas Kumarsky however as an alternative postponed the ceremony to finish her run to the US Open ladies’s doubles title with Jelena Ostapenko.
Kichenok and Ostapenko capped off their run by defeating Kristina Mladenovic and Zhang Shuai 6-4, 6-3 in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday.
Ladies’s Singles Grand Slam Doubles Champions, 2024:
Australian Open: Hsieh Su-Wei and Elise Mertens
Roland-Garros: Coco Gauff and Katerina Siniakova
Wimbledon: Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova
US Open: Jelena Ostapenko and Lyudmila Kichenok
Kichenok revealed her story throughout the post-match trophy ceremony, then elaborated in her post-match press convention.
“We determined after we bought right here to New York, my boyfriend Stas, he checked the place we are able to do it,” she mentioned. “As a result of we bought engaged greater than a 12 months in the past. We had been determining all of the issues, the place we are able to try this. And he discovered a spot right here [in New York] and he simply booked an appointment for Wednesday.”
“Did not occur. However, yeah, we’ll do it someplace someway.”
Ostapenko and Kichenok claimed their maiden main doubles title and their fifth total title as a workforce. They had been Australian Open runner ups in January.
“It is wonderful,” Ostapenko mentioned. “The entire week was actually wonderful, and particularly to play in New York. I really feel like we performed rather well. We did not lose one set throughout the event.”
“Nonetheless goose bumps after we went out of the court docket and feels wonderful first time we win the Grand Slam,” Kichenok, who plans to get married quickly, possibly in Las Vegas or Europe, added Kichenok.
