MELBOURNE, Australia — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe dropped a 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3 decision to Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko and Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh in women’s doubles semifinal play Friday at the Australian Open.
Dabrowski, from Ottawa, and Routliffe were seeded second at the season-opening Grand Slam.
Their third-seeded opponents closed out the victory in two hours 23 minutes.
Ostapenko and Hsieh will next face American Taylor Townsend and Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova.
The top-seeded pairing posted a 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 win over the unseeded Russia duo of Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider in the early semifinal.
The final is scheduled for Sunday at Melbourne Park.