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Otago Daily Times
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- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Routliffe reunited with Dabrowski for Wimbledon
Erin Routliffe (right) and Gabriela Dabrowski at this year's Australian Open. New Zealand tennis player Erin Routliffe has had a far from ideal lead-up to Wimbledon. With regular doubles player Gaby Dabrowski out of action, Routliffe played tournaments with two other people but with not a lot of success. Canadian Dabrowski is now back and they go into Wimbledon as the second seeds, having made the final at the grass court Grand Slam last year. World No 3 Routliffe put the last month down to experience. "It is always tough but it is part of the job with doubles as you can never control your partner," Routliffe told RNZ. With Dabrowski out the 30-year-old Kiwi played tournaments with Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and Lyudmyla Kichenok, of Ukraine. "I was lucky to play the last few weeks with different people, so it's been fine but happy to be back (with Dabrowski) for sure." The pair won the 2023 US Open doubles title and in 2024 made the Australian Open semi-finals and the Wimbeldon final. They finished last years by winning the WTA Finals in Riyadh. They reached the Australian Open semi-finals again this year and combined to win the Stuttgart Open. Routliffe and Dabrowski played one match together in Germany before Wimbledon. "You just need some time to get back in but we've been practising with a lot of other teams and we have our coaches here so it's been really nice." Routliffe makes no predictions about the Wimbledon tournament. "I have no idea, I go one match at a time." But she is fond of the grass courts at the All England Club. "I love it, it's one of the meccas of tennis, I love the grass, I love being here. "It's cool because if you're a tennis fan or not everyone knows Wimbledon and the history. It's an epic place and I'm excited to get going." Routliffe and Dabrowski play Saisai Zheng and Xinyu Wang from China. Sun focusing on doubles Meanwhile, Lulu Sun will pair with Canadian Leylah Fernandez in her first round doubles match tomorrow. The Te Anau-born player was knocked out of her singles match against Czech Marie Bouzkova 6-4, 6-4. - additional reporting ODT Online
Winnipeg Free Press
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Canada's Diallo picks up another win on grass as Wimbledon draws near
Montreal's Gabriel Diallo picked up another win on grass as Canada's tennis players continued to prepare for Wimbledon. The 23-year-old Diallo advanced to the second round of the Mallorca Championships with a 7-5, 6-3 win over local favourite Jaume Munar of Spain on Monday, which took just 56 minutes to complete. The six-foot-eight Diallo fired 10 aces and saved both break points he faced. He broke Munar three times on four chances, including twice in a four-match winning streak to claim the second set. Diallo, 23, who won his first career ATP tournament two weeks ago at the grass-court Libema Open in the Netherlands, entered the tournament with a career-high world ranking of No. 41. He will next face Serbia's Laslo Djere at the ATP 250 grass-court tournament. Meanwhile, the top-seeded team of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand were eliminated in the first round of action at the WTA 500 Bad Homburg Open in Germany. Dabrowski, who played her first match after missing a month with a rib issue, seemed poised for a triumphant return after she and Dabrowski took the first set of a match against Taiwan's Wu Fang-Hsien and China's Jiang Xinyu. However, the reigning WTA Finals doubles champions ultimately lost the match 6-7 (7), 7-5, 10-8. Thursdays Keep up to date on sports with Mike McIntyre's weekly newsletter. Main-draw action at Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the tennis season, begins June 30 on the grass courts of the All England Club. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 23, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Dabrowski, Routliffe out of Italian Open with quarterfinal loss to Andreeva, Shnaider
ROME – Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand are out of the Italian Open women's doubles tournament after a 6-2, 4-6, 11-9 quarterfinal loss to Russians Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider on Wednesday. The Russian pair had 10 break-point chances against top seeds Dabrowski and Routliffe, and converted four of them. Dabrowski and Routliffe converted three breaks on five chances, but won just 50 per cent of total service points compared to 61.4 per cent for their opponents. Andreeva, who fell to Coco Gauff in a singles quarterfinal earlier, and Shnaider will next face third-seeded Italians Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani at the clay-court WTA 1000 event. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Dabrowski and Routliffe, the reigning WTA Finals doubles champions, suffered their second 1000-series defeat to Andreeva and Shnaider after falling to the Russians in the second round of the Qatar Open in February. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 14, 2025.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
US Marine dies, another rescued while hiking in northern Japan
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways A U.S. Marine died and another was rescued while hiking in northern Japan over the weekend, the Marine Corps confirmed Tuesday. Cpl. Jason P. Cockrell and Cpl. Andre N. Dabrowski, both assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, went missing Friday while recreationally trekking Mount Furano in the Hokkaido prefecture of Japan. Cockrell was discovered Saturday, according to the Marine Corps, and did not survive. Dabrowski was rescued, according to reports. 'We are all incredibly saddened by this loss,' said Brig. Gen. Kevin G. Collins, commanding general of the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, in a statement. 'We are united in grief with their family, friends, and fellow Marines, and we will do everything we can to support them during this difficult time.' While the incident is under investigation, a spokesperson told Military Times that deteriorating weather conditions likely led to the Marines' initial disappearance. Airman uses military training to rescue skier during trip to the Alps Japanese news network Hokkaido Broadcasting reported one of the Marines called local police at 4 p.m. local time Friday after becoming disoriented and separated by fog, according to Stars and Stripes. That Marine was found unharmed six hours later, 4,300 feet up a mountain road. The other Marine was found 4,600 feet up the mountain, lying on a trail, but died after being transported to a hospital, the same report said. Cockrell, originally from New Mexico, enlisted in the Marine Corps on Aug. 8, 2022, and was serving as an automotive maintenance technician at the time of his death. He received the National Defense Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and Korea Defense Service Medal. Dabrowski also serves as an automotive maintenance technician and hails from Maryland. 'We extend our deepest gratitude to the Japanese authorities, local rescue teams, and all those involved in the search and recovery efforts,' said Cap. Brett Vannier, spokesperson for the 3rd Marine Logistics Group.
CNN
21-04-2025
- Health
- CNN
After her breast cancer diagnosis, Gaby Dabrowski found unexpected ‘joy' – and success – on the tennis court
Gaby Dabrowski enjoyed some of the most memorable victories of her tennis career last year, and did it all while quietly navigating a personal health crisis. It was only on New Year's Eve that Dabrowski, one of the world's top doubles players, revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in April. Suddenly, everything she had achieved throughout 2024 – an Olympic bronze medal in mixed doubles and her victory at the season-ending WTA Finals – was cast in a new light, instantly more remarkable than it first appeared. At one point in her recovery, just two weeks before the start of the grass-court season, Dabrowski couldn't even toss the ball into the air for a serve. Unable to lift her left arm high enough, she instead got her coach to throw it up for her during practice sessions. But fast-forward a couple of months and the Canadian was in Paris with an Olympic bronze medal around her neck, finally celebrating a childhood dream fulfilled. Arguably more impressive was that Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe had been runners-up in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon just a few weeks before, all while the 32-year-old had put further cancer treatment on hold to continue competing. The success, Dabrowski thinks, came alongside a change in perspective brought about by her cancer diagnosis – a new and welcome appreciation for the life she was leading. 'I really felt like it was such a cool thing to be able to play tennis as my profession, and I felt very grateful for the opportunity to be able to do that,' she tells CNN Sports. 'What I noticed is the results that I had last year didn't come because I wanted them, they came because I was enjoying what I was doing … really finding this joy in an achievement that came not from dreaming about it at night necessarily, but from sticking to my process of how I wanted to improve my tennis.' This was especially true during the Paris Olympics, when Dabrowski endured a period of bad health on her way to winning bronze in the mixed doubles alongside Félix Auger-Aliassime. That tournament was never centered around getting a medal; it was about simply getting through 'a couple of really tough days,' Dabrowski says. 'Honestly, I went to sleep thinking about how I was going to survive the next day,' she adds. 'What I was going to try to eat, hopefully I would sleep well, and if I didn't, how I would manage that. I broke things down into very small, achievable wins … And then a good result came.' Dabrowski's cancer journey really began in the spring of 2023 when she noticed a lump in her left breast. A doctor around that time told her not to worry about it, so she didn't. However, during a physical provided by the WTA, the governing body of women's tennis, the following year, another doctor encouraged Dabrowski to get the lump scanned. What came next felt like a whirlwind: a mammogram, an ultrasound, then a call from the radiologist urging her to get a biopsy immediately. 'It turned grim very quickly,' says Dabrowski. But it equally didn't take long for things to become more positive. 'I eventually got good news after good news after good news in terms of my staging, the size of the tumor, my Oncotype DX scoring which determines if you need chemo or not,' she adds. 'I didn't need chemo because my score was low enough and I didn't have any spread through my lymph nodes. So I kind of was just in this mode of: 'Okay, this was scary, but I'm also super grateful that I'm handling this quickly and I'm still at an early stage.'' The WTA, backed by medical technology company Hologic, offers annual health screenings for players on the Tour, which this year took place at the ongoing Miami Open. They examine, among other things, body composition, bone density, pelvic health, mental health, and Ob-Gyn issues like fertility and postpartum recovery. Players are also offered blood work, skin checks, cardiology tests and internal medicine with Mayo Clinic physicians. 'We have not a lot of time when we're traveling – let alone being able to see our doctors, being able to get checkups,' world No. 4 Jessica Pegula told CNN en Español's Elizabeth Pérez at the Miami Open. 'Our schedule's so all over the place so being able to come here and to do that before a tournament is great.' Pegula also said that she had spoken to women's health specialists through the WTA about the option to freeze her eggs. 'I'm 31,' she explained, 'so that's something that interested me, knowing that I don't really know what I'm going to do, but the window of having a kid gets smaller and smaller as you get older.' As for Dabrowski, she feels grateful to have such resources at her disposal, ultimately leading to her early-stage diagnosis. Now, she wants to help spread awareness for breast cancer – a big reason for sharing her story when she did. 'I really wanted women to be able to know that, even though something like cancer is scary, if you get whatever you have checked out early, and you can handle it, breast cancer has a 99% chance of survival,' says Dabrowski. 'And that was the first messaging that I saw on the flyer when I walked into the office for my mammogram: breast cancer is 99% survivable.' The past year in Dabrowski's life also demonstrates how it is possible to thrive, and not just survive, during intense treatment for health issues. Cancer became curiously intertwined with her tennis career, providing added motivation to get back on the court with a new appreciation for the sport 'In the beginning, I wasn't sure what my future would hold, not just in tennis, but my life in general,' she says. 'I didn't know if I was able to play again, when that would be, what my schedule might look like; would I have to play fewer tournaments? What would that mean for my ranking, my position financially? 'But then over time, I would say probably a month and a half after my diagnosis when I'd had a lot of answers to a lot of the questions I had about coming back to play, I really had this itch to want to return.' The cancer diagnosis has forced Dabrowski to take care of her body with meticulous attention to detail. That means making incremental improvements to her diet – avoiding sugar, processed foods, and anything that might cause inflammation – her sleep, and her physiotherapy. Dabrowski has always taken tennis seriously and always will for the duration of her career. But while dialing in on how she treats her body, she's noticed a new, almost liberating, mindset appear – one that allows her to approach the game in a more positive and forgiving way. Now, winning still feels good but the losses don't hurt quite as much as they used to. 'Although tennis has been all-encompassing from a very young age for me, I don't feel like it's the number one thing about who I am as a person, and I no longer attach my identity to my performance,' Dabrowski says to CNN. 'I'm able to take this life a little bit lighter, I feel like that's where good results come; and even if they don't come, I'm okay with them.' That's a special position to be in, especially when you consider that Dabrowski, around about this time last year, thought that she might never be able to play tennis again. But she's back on the court now, appreciating the life of a professional athlete more than ever before.
