Erin Routliffe and Gaby Dabrowski are into the final of the Cincinnati Open thanks to a thrilling super tiebreak comeback against Lyudmyla Kichenok from Ukraine and Australia\u2019s Ellen Perez.<\/p>\n
The Kiwi and Canadian won the match 3-6 6-3 12-10 and were down two mini breaks in the third set super tiebreak to trail 7-3.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s when the comeback started. They immediately got one of the mini breaks back when Kichenok served at 8-7, Dabrowski crushed the return for a winner.<\/p>\n
Dabrowski saved a match point on her serve at 8-9 and then hit an ace, to put the pressure onto their opponents.<\/p>\n
Perez won the next point on her serve, but on the next Dabrowski put a volley away to set up a match point on Routliffe\u2019s serve.<\/p>\n
After a deep serve from the Kiwi, she dug out a low backhand and steered the ball down centre of the court, between both players.<\/p>\n
In the final, Routliffe and Dabrowski will play the winner of the match between top seeds Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini against Guo Hanyu and Alexandra Panova.<\/p>\n
It will be Routliffe and Dabrowski\u2019s first final since Stuttgart in April and first one at the WTA 1000 level this year.<\/p>\n
Having won the Cincinnati Open with Asia Muhammad last year, Routliffe is on an eight-match winning streak at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erin Routliffe and Gaby Dabrowski are into the final of the Cincinnati Open thanks to a thrilling super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-69995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}