{"id":848992,"date":"2026-08-07T04:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:40:10","slug":"gabriela-dabrowski-drops-opening-doubles-match-at-national-bank-open-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848992\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela Dabrowski drops opening doubles match at National Bank Open in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski (left) talks to her doubles partner Ekaterina Alexandrova during their match against Coco Gauff and Caty McNally of the United States at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Aug. 6.Chris Young\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

With her regular doubles partner nursing an injury and current partner primarily focused on singles, Canada\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski kept her expectations in check at the National Bank Open. <\/p>\n

The doubles star from Ottawa still nearly pulled out a win with Russia\u2019s Ekaterina Alexandrova on Thursday but the American duo of Coco Gauff and Caty McNally saved a match ball before closing out a 3-6, 6-3, 11-9 victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still loved it, honestly,\u201d Dabrowski said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have expectations, so I\u2019m not really too disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dabrowski\u2019s usual partner, Luisa Stefani of Brazil, skipped the WTA 1000 event to rest a sore elbow. The Canadian turned to Alexandrova \u2013 the No. 6 seed in singles \u2013 last weekend and they gave the Americans a stiff test despite an unfamiliarity with each other\u2019s games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI treated this as a match that I wanted to win, but also as working on things to keep progressing in sort of my general development of my doubles game,\u201d Dabrowski said. <\/p>\n

The reigning U.S. Open doubles champion (with former partner Erin Routliffe) brought in a hitting partner to prepare for the tournament. She also played more on the deuce side of the hard court to get some reps in ahead of the season-ending Grand Slam. <\/p>\n

Dabrowski, the world No. 3 in doubles, plans to regroup with the fourth-ranked Stefani later this month at the Cincinnati Open in the final tune-up for the major.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a whole new swing, it\u2019s a whole new tournament,\u201d Dabrowski said. \u201cIt\u2019s someone that I\u2019m hoping to make new great memories with.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the players endured a one-hour rain delay and a couple additional pauses due to drizzle, the Americans jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the match tiebreak. <\/p>\n

Dabrowski and Alexandrova fought back with the Russian\u2019s service winner giving them a match point.<\/p>\n

Serving at 8-9, Gauff managed to land her second serve and McNally tied it with a volley winner. The Americans converted their first match point when a Dabrowski volley found the net.<\/p>\n

Earlier at Sobeys Stadium, Alexandrova beat Australia\u2019s Talia Gibson 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 to reach the fourth round in singles play. <\/p>\n

She was joined in the Round of 16 by seventh-seeded Iga \u015awi\u0105tek of Poland, who beat Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland 6-2, 6-1. <\/p>\n

Swiatek, Alexandrova advance at National Bank Open in Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n

Third-seeded American Jessica Pegula also advanced with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Kamilla Rakhimova of Uzbekistan. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of experience the past week with these rain delays,\u201d Pegula said. \u201cThree different warm-ups today was definitely not easy, but to be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diana Shnaider, the No. 15 seed, posted a 6-3, 6-3 victory over fellow Russian and No. 17 seed Anna Kalinskaya. Tenth-seeded Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk topped 19th-seeded American Madison Keys 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Shnaider and Belgium\u2019s Elise Mertens had a 6-1, 3-1 lead on Leylah and Bianca Fernandez, sisters from Laval, Que., when rain forced another suspension of play in the evening. <\/p>\n

Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus had a 4-2 lead on China\u2019s Shuai Zhang when play was stopped. <\/p>\n

Leylah Fernandez, the lone Canadian remaining<\/a> in the singles draw, was scheduled to meet fifth-seeded Mirra Andreeva of Russia on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Play continues through Aug. 13 at the US$7.43-million tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski (left) talks to her doubles partner Ekaterina Alexandrova during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-848992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848992","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=848992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}