NEW YORK - Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe are back in the U.S. Open women’s doubles final, two years after they began their partnership and immediately won their first Grand Slam title as a team in New York.

Life got complicated after that. But for all their trials and tribulations over the last 18 months, it feels as though they are truly back.

The duo that prides itself on making its opponents constantly uncomfortable with its ultra-aggressive, classic net-rushing game style has had to deal with plenty of discomfort of its own.

Dabrowski, from Ottawa, and Routliffe, a Canadian who lives in Montreal but represents her native New Zealand internationally, have stuck together through Dabrowski’s breast cancer diagnosis in April 2024 and subsequent treatment.

And, in a sign of a tr

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