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Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski is one win away from capturing her first women’s doubles Grand Slam title.
The Ottawa native and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe beat Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Wang Xinyu of China, the No. 8 seeds, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) in semifinal action on Friday in New York.
Routliffe was born in Auckland but grew up in Canada (she previously represented Canada).
Dabrowski and Routliffe won 62 per cent of their first serves and converted seven of nine breakpoint opportunities.
Dabrowski, who has won pair of Grand Slam titles in mixed doubles, has never won a women’s double title at a major event.
The 16th-seeded pair of Dabrowski and Routliffe will face the winner of a match featuring Germany’s Laura Siegemund and Russia’s Vera Svonareva, the No. 12 seeds, against American Jennifer Brady and Brazil’s Lusia Stefani, who are unseeded.
Dabrowski was runner-up at Wimbledon in 2019 with Xu Yifan of China.
The women’s doubles final is Sunday at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT.
–with files from The Canadian Press