Dabrowski, Routliffe fall to Siniakova and Townsend at WTA Finals

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Nov 04, 2025 10:40 AM EST | Last Updated: November 4

Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand spouse Erin Routliffe mislaid 6-4, 7-6 (3) to Czechia's Katerina Siniakova and American Taylor Townsend astatine the WTA Finals connected Tuesday.

The No. 3 seeds led 5-2 successful the 2nd acceptable earlier Siniakova and Townsend rallied.

Routliffe was incapable to service retired the acceptable astatine 5-3 arsenic Townsend's instrumentality victor clinched a cardinal break.

Townsend past converted her archetypal lucifer constituent with a work victor successful the ensuing tiebreak.

Dabrowski and Routliffe had defeated the aforesaid brace successful past year's WTA Finals title lucifer and again successful this year's U.S. Open final.

The triumph evened the head-to-head betwixt the 2 teams astatine 2 wins apiece.

"It's ever pugnacious erstwhile you suffer to the aforesaid team, and it's truthful adjacent — astatine the US Open it was conscionable a interruption successful each set," Townsend said successful the on-court interview. "We worked truly hard the past fewer days successful practice. We compiled each the information from the matches that we've played before, and came retired and conscionable wanted to execute connected the crippled plan."

The winners scored different cardinal interruption with the archetypal acceptable tied 3-3. A Townsend lob followed by Siniakova's volley victor broke Dabrowski's service and enactment the No. 2 seeds successful control.

Townsend was the lone server not to beryllium breached successful the lucifer arsenic she and Siniakova improved to 2-0 successful radical play.

Dabrowski and Routliffe, present 1-1, volition look Hungary's Timea Babos and Brazil's Luisa Stefani successful their last round-robin match.