It has already seemed that Kateřina Siniaková was going for the twelfth Grand Slam title. With his partner Taylor Townsend, they stuck on the US Open to the last obstacle. The Canadian-Novozaland couple Gabriela Dabrowska and Erin Routliffe were against. There are not very flattering comments about both players.
It was definitely not that the best female doubles of the world did not know what the US Open was going on in the finals.
In the fight for a great trophy he met Dabrowská and Routliffe for the third time. Last year, Siniak and Townsend lost the tournament, before the All England Club, on the contrary, rejoiced in the Grand Slam profit.
One current and three former doubles number one met in the match. It is hard to choose a better cast for the climax of the last tournament of the big four in the season.
Thus, the third duel in New York was the defeat of the Czechs and Americans, even though Dabrowska and his partner have no tennis reputation.
“I was surprised that Routliffe was the world’s number one. She can’t do a backhand. He won’t give him a return for the whole match, this would not happen on the doubles circuit before,” said former tennis player Klára Koukalová at the end of last year in SBOEM, the Sezono at Canal+ Sport.
In it former Czech players discussed the level of contemporary world doubles, which according to them have been a lot of mine in recent years.
Dabrowska also criticized them. “We played against her final in Beijing with Bara Strýcova, who came to me in front of the sword and says: The Dabrows do not speak tennis, Andy,” Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková recalled with a smile.
Nevertheless, the 33 -year -old Canadian has currently received 20 WTA titles. From the Grand Slam, however, dominated only the US Open, this year for the second time.
“I had death in her eyes when she played, I hated her. But Bára dropped it to me and said, But she can’t do tennis, do you understand?” Hlaváčková described how Uncle reassured her during the match with exaggeration.
It should be added that the Czech couple dominated the tournament in China, won 10: 8 in Super Tie-Break. Dabrowská was then a partner of Sü I-Fan.
This year in the final in New York it was clearly the victory of two Canadian friends, Routliffe has represented New Zealand since 2017.
“This is where we won our first Grand Slam, since then we are long -term partners. We are doing well and I am excited to play with you. It is exciting that we managed to repeat the title in New York,” Routliffe said.
Tennis autumn at Canal+ Sport
You can watch the final phase of the season on the WTA Tour in live Canal+ Sport. The biggest attractions in September and October are giant “thousands” in Beijing and Wu-chan and in November the pompous WTA Finals in Riyadh. The Czech Republic will be represented at the Champions Tournament by the great debList Kateřina Siniaková, the live broadcast of the Openti Expert Studio with the participation of interesting guests.
