NEW YORK — Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe received the US Open girls’s doubles title for the second time in three years, ending Taylor Townsend’s whirlwind stint in Flushing Meadows one victory in need of what would have been the American’s third Grand Slam championship with Katerina Siniakova.
Seeded third, Dabrowski and Routliffe beat the top-ranked pair of Townsend and Siniakova 6-4, 6-4 in an entertaining ultimate Friday at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Dabrowski and Routliffe embraced afterward, celebrating Dabrowski’s first main triumph since present process therapy for breast most cancers. She delayed a part of that therapy so she may compete at Wimbledon final 12 months, the place she and Routliffe reached the ultimate.
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Townsend and Siniakova have been aiming so as to add a US Open title to their résumé after successful Wimbledon final 12 months and the Australian Open in January.
Townsend grew to become one of many faces of the match, due to a postmatch altercation early in singles play that she needs by no means occurred. Townsend, who’s Black, mentioned Latvian opponent Jelena Ostapenko informed her she had “no class” and “no training,” an interplay that grew to become a sizzling button subject with questions on whether or not the feedback had racial undertones.
The 29-year-old mentioned she did not take it that manner, acknowledging, “That has been a stigma in our group of being ‘not educated’ and the entire issues, when it is the furthest factor from the reality.” Townsend’s on-line following grew exponentially, she mentioned she obtained help from fellow gamers and Ostapenko finally apologized on social media, citing English not being her first language for what she thought to imply tennis etiquette.
Townsend reached the fourth spherical in singles, dropping to Barbora Krejcikova on Sunday when she didn’t convert eight match factors. It will have been Townsend’s first solo quarterfinal look at a significant.
In doubles, Townsend and Siniakova reached the ultimate at a Grand Slam for a fifth time, alongside the best way eliminating Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez to finish their a lot talked about wild-card run. Williams, again taking part in at age 45, and Fernandez drew huge crowds at Louis Armstrong Stadium as important fan favorites.
Dabrowski, a 33-year-old Canadian, and Routliffe, a 30-year-old from New Zealand, cut up $1 million. That is the identical prize cash because the winners of the boys’s ultimate Saturday: Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos towards Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski.
