In the early morning of April 24, Beijing time, the women's doubles semifinals of the WTA500 Stuttgart station were contested, and The Chinese Jinhua Zhang Shuai partnered with the American youngster Gao Fu as the top seed, and the opponent of the two was the No. 4 seed Shuko Aoyama / Zhan Haoqing. After two sets of competition, the "Rich and Handsome" combination eliminated the opponent 2-0 and successfully reached the doubles final of the tournament.
In the first set, Zhang Shuai/Gauff took the lead in the second set to complete the break and opened with a 3-0 lead. In the 5th set, Zhang Shuai/Gao Fu saved 2 break points to save serves, and In the 7th set Zhang Shuai/Gough lost the serve, but then the two broke the opponent's serve in the 8th set and won the first set 6-2.
In the second set, Zhang Shuai/Gough was broken by the opponent in the 5th set, and in the 6th set, the two completed the return break, and the first 6 sets of the two sides fought a 3-3 draw. In the 8th set, Zhang Shuai/Gough completed a key break and came to win the match 5-3. In the 9th set, the two scored four consecutive points to save serves and won the second set 6-3.
In the end, in a match that took 1 hour and 04 minutes, the top seeds zhang Shuai and Gao Fu won the 4th seedEdo Aoyama Shuko / Zhan Haoqing 6-2, 6-3, and successfully reached the final of the tournament. This is the first time this season that Zhang Shuai has reached a doubles final on the Tour, and she will be in the final to attack the 15th championship trophy of the individual tour, after Zhang Shuai has won a total of 14 championships, including 11 doubles titles and 3 singles titles.