Dabrowski, Routliffe attain third spherical of Australian Open Ladies’s doubles

Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand accomplice Erin Routliffe have reached the third spherical of girls’s doubles on the Australian Open.

The 2 runners-up secured victories in three units (4-6, 6-3, 6-4) over Maia Lumsden of Nice Britain and Anna Siskova of Czechia.

Dabrowski and Routliffe, the 2023 US Open champions and 2024 Wimbledon finalists, hit 30 winners to 14 of their opponents and earned extra factors within the second out 72 p.c to 45 p.c.

It reached the semi-finals final yr in Melbourne the place it was eradicated by Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine.

Leylah Fernandez, in the meantime, was eradicated from the singles competitors, falling 6-4, 6-2 to third-seeded American Coco Gauff within the third spherical.

Fernandez, of Laval, Que., stays in a doubles match with fellow Ukrainian Nadiia Kichenok, who will face Italy’s Camilla Rosatello and Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian within the second spherical.

Dabrowski and Routliffe will subsequent face the winner of the match between Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil and Laura Siegemund of Germany, and Lucia Bronzetti of Italy and Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine.

Dabrowski, 32, received the Australian Open combined doubles crown with Mate Pavic of Croatia in 2018.

She is ranked No. 3 on the planet in ladies’s doubles. The Canadian lady not too long ago revealed that she was handled for breast most cancers final yr.