Canada’s Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Routliffe drop women’s doubles semifinal

MELBOURNE — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe dropped a 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3 decision to Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko and Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh in women’s doubles semifinal play Friday at the Australian Open.

Dabrowski, from Ottawa, and Routliffe were seeded second at the season-opening Grand Slam.

Their third-seeded opponents closed out the victory in two hours 23 minutes.

Ostapenko and Hsieh will next face American Taylor Townsend and Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova.