China's Zhang Shuai and Kristina Mladenovic of France defeated American Taylor Townsend and Czech Katerina Siniakova 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, advancing to the US Open women's doubles final on Wednesday.

Zhang Shuai (L) and Kristina Mladenovic compete during the women's semi-final match between Zhang Shuai of China/Kristina Mladenovic of France and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic/Taylor Townsend of the United States at the 2024 US Open tennis championships in New York, the United States, Sept. 4, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Rui)

Zhang, who won the US Open women's doubles title in 2021 with Samantha Stosur, has now reached her fourth Grand Slam doubles final.

Zhang and Mladenovic will face the No. 7 seeds, Jelena Ostapenko and Lyudmyla Kichenok, in the final on Friday.