{"id":932755,"date":"2026-10-18T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932755\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:02:19","slug":"dabrowski-stefani-capture-wuhan-doubles-crown-third-title-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932755\/","title":{"rendered":"Dabrowski, Stefani capture Wuhan doubles crown, third title in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani won the Dongfeng \u2022 Voyah Wuhan Open doubles title with a straight-sets victory over third seeds and defending champions Storm Hunter and Katerina Siniakova.<\/p>\n

In Sunday\u2019s final, Dabrowski and Stefani broke early in the first set to build a 4-1 lead before Hunter and Siniakova fought back to level the score. The top seeds broke again in the 12th game to take the set 7-5. They broke twice again in the second set while surrendering their serve once to complete a 7-5, 6-4 victory in 1 hour, 32 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think matches like this are decided in a few moments and a couple of points, and we could have been set down in the first set,\u201d Stefani said in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

She pointed to a deuce point in that set when Hunter missed a backhand, and said that if the ball had gone over, the story of the match might have been different.<\/p>\n

The pair started the second set strongly and kept giving themselves chances to break in almost every game. Against a team like Hunter and Siniakova, Stefani said, \u201cyou have to be on the whole time, or at least trying to do the right things and the good things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m happy about how we finish in two sets,\u201d she said. \u201cA really great team and tough, tough opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Showtime doubles \u2b50\ufe0f Gabriela Dabrowski & @Luisa__Stefani were electric in their Wuhan final! #dongfengvoyahwuhanopen https:\/\/t.co\/S7IKDUYMRl<\/p>\n

\u2014 wta (@WTA) October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

The title was the pair’s sixth of the season, following their triumphs in Dubai, Strasbourg, Eastbourne, Sao Paulo and Beijing last week. It was their eighth title overall as a team and their third title in a row. The duo improved its career tour-level win-loss record to 79-19.<\/p>\n

For Dabrowski, it was her 26th career doubles title on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz and eighth at the WTA 1000 level. Stefani claimed her 19th career tour-level doubles title and sixth at the WTA 1000 level. The pair have also qualified for the season-ending WTA Finals to be held in Indian Wells next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for us as a team, it\u2019s always really important to push the back ends of draws, and we\u2019re always trying to play a relatively full schedule, but also a smart schedule,\u201d Dabrowski told the media when asked to reflect on their season.<\/p>\n

She said the theme has been what their coach calls relentlessness, and that the team has done a good job of living up to it. \u201cI\u2019m really pleased with where we are and where our level is,\u201d Dabrowski said. \u201cSo it\u2019s really nice to see it pay off in results consistently throughout the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair isn\u2019t finished yet, though, and Dabrowski made clear their focus is still on the weeks ahead. \u201cWe still have a few more weeks to go, so we\u2019re not done yet,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we have more to learn and more growth to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Siniakova and Hunter, this was their ninth tour-level event as a team. They have won two titles together — at the WTA 1000 event in Dubai in 2024 and in Wuhan in 2025 — and now have a 30-6 career win-loss record as a pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani won the Dongfeng \u2022 Voyah Wuhan Open doubles title with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":["post-932755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}