Alizé Cornet and Fiona Ferro victorious over the Ukrainians in straight sets (6-2, 6-4).
For their first doubles match in Tokyo, the two players from the French Riviera, Alizé Cornet and Fiona Ferro, qualified for the second round of the Olympic Games by defeating the Ukrainian pair Elina Svitolina/Dayana Yastremska (6-2, 6-4) in just 1 hour and 20 minutes.
By defeating the world numbers 6 and 83, the two players from Nice will face the American pair Mattek-Sands – Pegula, who were victorious over the Polish pair Linette and Rosolska on Sunday.
Unable to win a medal in singles, as both were eliminated in the first round (Ferro by Sara Tormo and Cornet by Karolina Pliskova), the two French players might still dream of a doubles medal.
