The third time was not the charm for Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski.<\/p>\n
The Ottawa native, along with Brazil’s Luisa Stefani, fell in the women’s doubles final at Wimbledon on Sunday after a 6-3, 7-5 loss against Hanyu Guo and Kristina Mladenovic.<\/p>\n
It goes down as Dabrowski’s third runner-up finish in women’s doubles at Wimbledon, after finishing second in 2019 alongside Xu Yifan and in 2024 with Erin Routliffe.<\/p>\n
Dabrowski and Stefani were the second seeds in the tournament and had yet to lose a set at the grass-court Grand Slam before Sunday’s defeat to the 10th-seeded Chinese-French pairing.<\/p>\n
While Dabrowski and Stefani entered the matchup looking for a fourth tournament win of the season, it was their first Grand Slam final of the year after losing in the semifinals at the Australian Open and the French Open.<\/p>\n
Mladenovic won a seventh career Grand Slam women’s doubles title and first at the All England Club.<\/p>\n
She has won the French Open doubles tournament four times and the Australian Open twice with different partners but lost her only previous Wimbledon final in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s really a dream,\u201d said the French player, who missed much of last year with an injury. \u201cI definitely cannot believe what just happened now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mladenovic and Guo only started playing together this year, and it’s a first Grand Slam title for the Chinese player.<\/p>\n
–with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third time was not the charm for Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski. The Ottawa native, along with Brazil’s Luisa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-797332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}