Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and associate Erin Routliffe of New Zealand are out of the Italian Open ladies’s doubles match after a 6-2, 4-6, 11-9 quarterfinal loss to Russians Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider on Wednesday.
The Russian pair had 10 break-point probabilities in opposition to high seeds Dabrowski and Routliffe, and transformed 4 of them.
Dabrowski and Routliffe transformed three breaks on 5 probabilities, however gained simply 50 per cent of complete service factors in comparison with 61.4 per cent for his or her opponents.
Andreeva, who fell to Coco Gauff in a singles quarterfinal earlier, and Shnaider will subsequent face third-seeded Italians Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani on the clay-court WTA 1000 occasion.
Dabrowski and Routliffe, the reigning WTA Finals doubles champions, suffered their second 1000-series defeat to Andreeva and Shnaider after falling to the Russians within the second spherical of the Qatar Open in February.