Dabrowski becomes first Canadian to win a WTA Finals title

Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and associate Erin Routliffe have received the WTA Finals doubles championship.

They beat the crew of Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend of america 7-5, 6-3.

It is Dabrowski’s first doubles title on the season-ending championship event.

Dabrowski and Routliffe received the U.S. Open girls’s doubles title in 2023 and reached this 12 months’s Wimbledon ultimate collectively, in the end shedding to Siniakova and Townsend within the grass courtroom ultimate.

The win is Dabrowski and Routliffe’s fourth crew title and second of 2024. In addition they received on the grass on the WTA 250 in Nottingham over the summer season. 

“We have been by way of lots this 12 months,” stated Routliffe. “We have all the time caught by one another and actually dedicated to one another and supported one another. 

“I believe that is type of an accumulation of all the 12 months, and it means lots.”

Riyadh is Dabrowski’s sixteenth profession doubles title and Routliffe’s eighth. 

Routliffe represents New Zealand in competitors however beforehand performed below the Canadian flag. 

Her mother and father are Canadian however she was born in New Zealand as they sailed world wide. She resides in Caledon, Ont.