Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe run at a possible repeat at the U.S. Open lives on. The defending women’s doubles champions defeated Angelica Moratelli and Jaqueline Cristian 7-5, 7-6 (3) to reach the quarterfinals on Sunday.
Top-seeded duo secured title last year
Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe run at a possible repeat at the U.S. Open lives on.
The defending women’s doubles champions defeated Italy’s Angelica Moratelli and Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian 7-5, 7-6 (3) on Sunday to advance into the quarterfinals.
Ottawa’s Dabrowski and Routliffe won the final two games of the second set to force a tiebreaker.
Dabrowski and Routliffe broke on three of their eight opportunities and fired 33 winners.
The top-seeded duo will next face the winner between Great Britain’s Harriet Dart and France’s Diane Parry, and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova and Taiwan’s Hao-Ching Chan