Valentina Ivanov (NZL) and Rebecca Munk Mortensen (DEN) v [1] Tilwith Di Girolami (BEL) and Lian Tran (NED)

With a combined ranking around 900 places higher than their opponents, it’s rather surprising that top seeds Tilwith Di Girolami and Lian Tran were not the favourites with the bookmakers to win their doubles semi-final in Alkmaar against Valentina Ivanov and Rebecca Munk Mortensen, and that may well have seemed a mistake when Di Girolami…