There might be no doubles title defence for Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe on the WTA Finals.
The third-seeded pair fell 2-6, 7-5, 10-5 to of their remaining group-stage match in opposition to seventh-seeds Timea Babos of Hungary and Luisa Stefani of Brazil on Thursday on the season-ending tennis event.
With that consequence, the defending champions completed the group stage at 1-2 and didn’t advance to the semifinals.
Dabrowski and Routliffe had seven aces within the match, however in any other case struggled on serve.
The pair, who’re additionally the reigning U.S. Open champions, received simply 50.7 per cent of whole service factors and have been damaged thrice on 5 probabilities within the second set, when Babos and Stefani mounted their comeback from a set down.
Babos, who’s within the doubles semifinals for the fourth time, and Stefani, a former Dabrowski associate who’s making her WTA Finals debut, will face Hsieh Su-Wei and Jelena Ostapenko in Friday’s semifinals.
