HALESOWEN tennis star Jordanne Whiley saw her incredible winning sequence of Grand Slam women's doubles titles brought to an end.

Whiley and her Japanese partner Yui Kamiji could not build on their five title when losing in the final at Roland Garros last week.

They had to settle for runners-up honours following defeat to Dutch second seeds Jiske Griffioen and Aniek van Koot.

Whiley and Kamiji came from 2-0 down in the opening set to lead 4-3 after earning successive service breaks, but were unable to control the first set tie-break.

However, they raced into a 3-0 second set lead and maintained their advantage to take the final to a deciding match tie-break for the second successive year.

The defending champions made another good start to the match tie-break, earning a 5-2 lead, but after missing out to Whiley and Kamiji in the last four Grand Slam finals Griffioen and van Koot recovered to win with a scoreline that was almost an exact mirror image to that in Paris in 2014.

“We really didn’t want our winning run to end and we are truly gutted,” said Whiley.

“We shouldn’t have lost the way we did in the second set. My serve let me down, especially at key moments, but neither of us played as well as we could have. The heat was also a factor, but we’ll be back to defend our title at Wimbledon and I’m really looking forward to playing at my favourite tournament again.”