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Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani have advanced to their first Grand Slam women’s doubles final of the season.
The duo scored a 7-5, 6-3 win over Japan’s Shuko Aoyama and Taiwan’s En-shuo Liang on Friday at Wimbledon.
Dabrowski and Stefani will next face the winner of the match between Chinese duo Jiang Xinyu and Xu Yifan and Kristina Mladenovic of France and China’s Guo Hanyu.
Dabrowski and Stefani have three tournament wins this season, but lost to top-ranked Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend in the French Open semifinals and fell to Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic in the final four at the Australian Open.
Zverev advances to men’s final
Alexander Zverev will play for another major trophy, a month after winning his first Grand Slam title at the French Open.
Zverev ended the “Ferytale” run of British wild card Arthur Fery with an overpowering 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 victory in the semifinals at the All England Club Friday.
Zverev, whose breakthrough at Roland Garros came in his fourth Grand Slam final, is attempting to become the first man in the professional era (since 1968) to win his second title at the next event immediately their first major trophy.
The 114th-ranked Fery, who grew up five minutes from the All England Club and played at Stanford University, was attempting to become the first wild card to reach the final since Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon in 2001.
In Sunday’s final, Zverev will meet either defending champion Jannik Sinner or seven-time Wimbledon winner Novak Djokovic, who were up next on Centre Court.
Djokovic beat Sinner in their last meeting in five sets in the Australian Open semifinals.
It was another warm day in southwest London, with the temperature rising to about 29 C. It was also breezy and a bit cloudier than in recent days.
The women’s final on Saturday features two Czech players, Karolina Muchova against Linda Noskova.
