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in the 2024 us open women's doubles final that ended in the early morning of september 7th, beijing time, the 35-year-old chinese veteran zhang shuai and her partner mladenovic fought hard for two sets, but lost 4-6, 3-6 to the combination of chichenok/ostapenko and finished second. zhang shuai also missed her third women's doubles grand slam title.

in the first set, zhang shuai and her partner fell behind 0-3 at the start, but they fought back to tie the game at 4-4. however, in the crucial 12th game, they were broken in the serve game, which they had to defend, and lost the first set with a score of 4-6. in the second set, zhang shuai and her partner led 3-1 at one point, but eventually collapsed and lost 5 games in a row, losing 3-6. in the end, zhang shuai and her partner lost 2 sets in a row and won the runner-up of the women's doubles of this us open.

however, despite finishing second, zhang shuai still made history.she helped chinese mainland women's doubles players reach the grand slam finals for six consecutive years.after winning the runner-up in this year's us open, zhang shuai has won 2 championships (2019 australian open, 2021 us open) and 2 runner-up titles (2022 wimbledon, 2024 us open) in the grand slam women's doubles arena.

in terms of prize money, zhang shuai won a total of us$287,500 (us$100,000 for singles and us$187,500 for doubles), which is about rmb 2.04 million.this season's prize money has exceeded $550,000, and his career prize money has reached $10.52 million.

in terms of ranking, zhang shuai's doubles ranking soared 30 places to 32nd thanks to her 1,300 points as the runner-up in the us open. if she continues to partner with mladenovic at the australian open next year, she won't have to worry about playing against the no. 2 seed in the first round. this also means that next year we still have a chance to see the 35-year-old zhang shuai in the grand slam arena, continuing to exert her remaining energy and stick to her favorite tennis career.