Kiki Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia were a great team in doubles, and they even managed to win the Roland Garros and the finals in Singapore in 2016. Eventually, Carolina decided to end her partnership to focus on singles, but Kiki didn’t like how her (ex) friend informed her.

What happened

During a recent interview with sport260, Kiki explained what happened

“It’s very sad that it turned out like this, from her side, because what really happened is that she just decided that she wanted to stop playing doubles and she just sent me a poor message over the phone.

I would have understood any reason she would have given me to stop playing together –anything she would’ve told me I would’ve totally agreed and respected. But she didn’t have the courage or human values to come and talk to me face-to-face and say ‘listen Kiki; I have these goals, I see it like this, I want to stop for that reason,’ but that didn’t happen.

So I was extremely disappointed about that. We met in Indian Wells in the ice bath and she was surprised I was actually cold with her. She wanted to know why I was cold and I was like ‘You’re asking me? I know we weren’t necessarily friends outside of the court but at least what we shared and lived through, our beautiful tennis results, you could have at least thought to see me face-to-face and tell me after all we’ve been through. You didn’t do that so I was very disappointed with you and I’m disappointed”.

Both Kiki and Caroline reached the quarters at the recent Roland Garros. They are in different halves. Off course, a final would be a complete blast.