NEW YORK – Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe defeated top-seeded American Taylor Townsend and Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova 6-4, 6-4 to win the U.S. Open women’s doubles title on Friday.

Dabrowski, an Ottawa native, and Routliffe, a Montreal resident who represents her native New Zealand internationally, also won the Grand Slam event in 2023.

The third-seeded duo converted their first break opportunity in the first set and broke their opponents’ serve again to close out the match.

Dabrowski and Routliffe embraced afterward, celebrating Dabrowski’s first major triumph since undergoing treatment for breast cancer. She delayed part of that treatment so she could compete at Wimbledon last year, where she and Routliffe reached the final.

“What a wild ride, we’ve been through so

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