Britain’s wait for home champions in the girls’ doubles goes on for at least another year after Anna Brogan of Scotland and England’s Freya Christie were narrowly beaten in a high-quality semi-final on Saturday. The 17-year-old pair led 4-1 in the first set and recovered from 4-1 down in the second but were eventually beaten 6-4, 7-5 by Vera Lapko of Belarus and Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia, who have a chance to win their first grand slam title together, having missed out in the final at the US Open last summer.
Elizabeth Jelfs is the only Briton to win the title here, in 1994, but Brogan and Christie began well, racing to a 3-0 and 4-1 lead only to be hauled back.