Canada’s Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Routliffe received the opening doubles match on the WTA Finals

Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe defeated Taiwan’s Hao-Ching Chan and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova 7-6 (6), 6-4 of their opening spherical match on Sunday on the WTA finals.

The season-ending event options the highest eight ladies’s doubles groups on the WTA Tour.

Dabrowski, of Ottawa, and Routliffe saved set level within the opening tiebreaker.

The 2 runners-up went on to defeat their seventh-placed opponents in a single hour and 55 minutes.

Spherical-robin play continues till Thursday.

The ultimate is scheduled for Saturday.

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