French Open: Miyu Kato nets emotional mixed doubles title after women's doubles DQ - 'Tears of joy!'

There were emotional scenes at the French Open on Thursday as Miyu Kato, who was controversially disqualified from the women's doubles, won the mixed doubles title with Tim Puetz. Kato and her partner, Aldila Sutjiadi, were defaulted from the women's doubles at Roland-Garros on Sunday in the second set of their third-round match against Marie Bouzkova and Sara Sorribes Tormo when Kato whacked a ball up the other end of the court after a point and accidentally hurt a ball kid.

Ad But after suffering that emotional and heartbreaking disqualification on that day, Kato was jubilant on Thursday afternoon after she and Puetz closed out a fine 4-6 6-4 10-6 victory on a deciding set tie-break against Michael Venus and Bianca Andreescu. Roland-GarrosKato/Puetz v Andreescu/Venus — Roland-Garros highlights3 HOURS AGO It was immediately clear to everyone on Court Philippe-Chatrier how special the moment was for Kato after all she had been through over the last few days in Paris.

«What a stay in Paris she'd had,» said Miles Maclagan on Eurosport commentary. Nick Lester, alongside Maclagan, added: «There have been tears of desolation, haven't there? And now there might be some tears of joy.

»Ejected from the women's doubles after that incident a few days ago now, and maybe she'll feel a little bit of justice has been done here, who knows." Kato gave an emotional speech in which she thanked the tennis world for all the support she had received. «To my partner Tim, I'm so glad I have you as a partner.

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