Dabrowski, Routliffe advance to Wimbledon women’s doubles semifinals

LONDON — Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand moved closer to another Grand Slam title Wednesday with a 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4 win over Barbora Krejcikova and Laura Siegemund in women’s doubles quarterfinal action at Wimbledon.

Dabrowski and Routliffe, seeded second at the All England Club, broke to love to go up 5-4 in the third set, then finished off the match on serve.

The eighth-seeded team of Krejcikova and Siegemund had kept the match alive by saving match point to even the second-set tiebreaker at 5-5 before scoring the next two points.

Dabrowski and Routliffe, the 2023 U.S. Open champions, will face the seventh-seeded American tandem of Caroline Dolehide and Desirae Krawczyk on Friday in the semifinals.