(Chennai) Canadians Eugenie Bouchard and Gabriela Dabrowski continued their journey to the women’s doubles semifinals at the Chennai Open on Thursday.
Bouchard, of Westmount, and her Belgian playing partner Yanina Wickmayer struggled to overcome the Russians Anastasia Gasanova and Oksana Selekhmeteva 5-7, 6-3 and 12-10 after an hour and 54 minutes of play on the cement Indian.
For his part, Dabrowski and his Brazilian partner Luisa Stefani, the favorites of the doubles tournament, crushed the local favorites, the Indians Rutuja Bhosale and Karman Thandi, 6-0, 6-3 in 56 minutes of play.
In the semi-finals, Bouchard and Wickmayer will face Russia’s Anna Blinkova and Georgia’s Natela Dzalamidze, while Dabrowski and Stefani will face Thailand’s Peangtarn Plipuech and Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima.
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This means that the two representatives of the maple leaf could cross swords in the final of this tournament of the WTA250 series.
In singles, Ontario’s Carol Zhao saw her run come to an end when she lost 6-1, 7-5 to Russia’s Varvara Gracheva, the tournament’s second seed.
On Friday, Bouchard will face Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska in the quarter-finals, while British Columbia’s Rebecca Marino will face Poland’s Magda Linette, the tournament’s third seed.
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