7th trophy kiss as a pair! 😘🏆 pic.twitter.com/zvCx26sEIK
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 5, 2025
3rd seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe won the 2025 U.S. Open doubles title today, defeating top seeds Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-4 in the final. And while a score of 6-4, 6-4 may not look that exciting, the match was thrilling to watch, and was accompanied by some excellent commentary by five-time U.S. Open doubles champion Pam Shriver (with Rennae Stubbs courtside).
This is the team's second major title; they won the U.S. Open in 2023. In 2024, Dabrowski was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and had two surgeries. After a three-month break, she returned to the tour. Dabrowski won a bronze medal for Canada in mixed doubles with Felix Auger-Aliassime at the Paris Olympics last summer, and she and Routliffe aso won the WTA Finals last year. While she was competing in these events, the Canadian star was still receiving treatment for cancer.
This year, she and Routliffe won the Cincinnati Open, a WTA 1000 event, and the final lead-up tour to the U.S. Open.
Yesterday, there was big, though not exactly unexpected, news in the wheelchair division. Diede de Groot, still finding her way back after she took a break for surgery and rehab, lost her quarterfinal to Yui Kamiji, who has now won four matches against the woman known as Diede the Great. and the woman who has been Kamiji's professional nemesis for some time. Top seed Kamiji also won her semifinal against 4th seed Wang Ziying. She will face 3rd seed Li Xiaohui in the final.
The doubles will feature the unseeded team of de Groot and Zhu Zhenzhen and 2nd seeds Li and Wang.
In juniors, Lea Nilsson of Sweden, who is unseeded will compete for the title against 14th seed Jeline Vandromme of Belgium.
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