Number 2 seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe beat Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova 7-5 6-3 to win the WTA Finals title crowning a dream week in Riyadh. They finished the week as undefeated champions.
Dabrowski and Routliffe claimed their fourth team title and second of the WTA Tour season. They had already won at the US Open and Zhengzhou in 2023 and in Nottingham in 2024. Dabrowski has won the 16th doubles title of her career, while Routliffe claimed her trophy.
Dabrowski and Routliffe avenged their defeat to Townsend and Siniakova in the Wimbledon final as well as a loss against Veronika Kudemertova and Chan Hao Ching in their title at the US Open.
Dabrowski and Routliffe saved a match point to beat Olympic champions Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani.
Siniakova and Townsend earned their first break in the opening game. Dabrowski and Routliffe won three consecutive games with two breaks of serve. Siniakova and Dabrowski broke back to draw level to 3-3. Siniakova was broken from 40-15, as she was serving to take the set to the tie-break. Routliffe and Dabrowski won the last three points with three returns of serve to take the first set 7-5.
Dabrowski and Routliffe broke serve at love in the fourth game to take a 2-1 lead. Routliffe and Siniakova broke back in the fifth game and saved two break points to draw level to 3-3, but Dabrowski and Routliffe won the last three games including a break in the eighth game to close out the win on their fourth match point.
“I think they’re an amazing team, and they’re amazing from basically every position in the court. So I think when it comes down to those big moments, the big thing for us was we just wanted to go and take it, and they weren’t gonna give it to us. So we tried to kind of pep talk ourselves to go for our shots and be more aggressive in those big moments. I think that’s probably what the difference maker was”, said Routliffe.
