Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski could win her first Grand Slam women’s doubles title on Sunday afternoon when she reached the final of the US Open alongside New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe.
The two women defeated China’s Wang Xinyu and Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh in straight sets 6-1, 7-6(4) in the final four of the competition on Friday. Despite 13 double faults, they retained the upper hand in 1 hour 42 minutes. At the same time, Dabrowski reached the final of his second major tournament in his career; She fought the ultimate duel at Wimbledon in 2019.
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Together with Routliffe, an athlete born in New Zealand of Canadian parents who decided to take citizenship of this Oceanic country in 2017, the Ottawa native will have to defeat the winner of the meeting between the Russian Vera Zvonareva and the German Laura Siegemund against the American Jennifer Brady and the Brazilian Luisa Stefani.
Dabrowski is ranked 19th in the world in this discipline and holds 13 titles in women’s doubles, the last three being acquired in Madrid and Tokyo (with Mexican Giuliana Olmos) and Chennai (with Stefani) in 2022. The woman, who is only playing her fourth tournament with her current partner, has won two Grand Slam finals in mixed doubles: she triumphed at the Australian Open in 2018 with the Croatian Mate Pavic, after doing the same with the Indian Rohan Bopanna at Roland -Garros in 2017.