WTA Finals 2025: Defending Champions Dabrowski/Routliffe Eliminated, Semi-Final Matchups Set

The final decisive match of the group stage in the 2025 WTA Finals doubles draw has delivered its verdict. Defending champions Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe were defeated in the decisive qualification match against the pair Timea Babos/Luisa Stefani.

Following the elimination of the number 1 seeds, the pair Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, in the group stage on Wednesday, the women's Masters doubles draw witnessed another major surprise just hours later: the number 3 seeds, the pair Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe, have also exited the tournament before the semi-finals.

The defending champions were playing a decisive match this Thursday against Timea Babos and Luisa Stefani in a duel with a simple outcome: the winning team would advance to the final four. After an excellent start to the match, Dabrowski and Routliffe saw the match slip away from them.

It was after a super tie-break in the third set that the Hungarian and the Brazilian secured their spot in the semi-finals (2-6, 7-5, 10-5). Winners of the US Open this season, Dabrowski and Routliffe were competing in the Finals together for the third consecutive time, and this is the first time they have been eliminated in the group stage.

Babos and Stefani will face Jelena Ostapenko and Su-wei Hsieh, who won all three of their group matches, in the semi-finals on Friday. The other semi-final matchup will pit Katerina Siniakova/Taylor Townsend (who has not yet played her final group match) against Veronika Kudermetova/Elise Mertens.