Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe are U.S. Open women’s doubles champions for the second time in three years.
They defeated top-seeded American Taylor Townsend and Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova 6-4, 6-4 in today’s final.
Dabrowski is an Ottawa native while Routliffe, a dual citizen who represents her native New Zealand internationally, lives in Montreal.
They converted their first break opportunity in the first set and broke their opponents’ serve again to close out the match.
Dabrowski and Routliffe were seeded third at the Grand Slam event.
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime will meet top-seeded Italian Jannik Sinner in men’s singles semifinal play this evening.
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