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The Latvian-Ukrainian duo finished 11th in the competition and defeated Canada’s Gabriela Dabrovskis and Erin Rutliffe of New Zealand, fourth seeds in the tournament, 7-5, 7-5 in the semifinals.
The Latvian-Ukrainian duo trailed 3-5 in the first set, but continued to win four games in a row, outscoring them 40-0 in the final and winning the first set 7-5.
At the start of the second set, Gabrovski and Rutliffe made it 3-0, but Ostapenko and Kichenoka were dominant in the next three games and leveled the score at 3-3. In the continuation, the opponents regained the lead with 5:3, but the duo from Latvia and Ukraine fought back and reached 7:5 and thus moved into the final.
For reaching the final, the winners each received 1,300 points in the WTA doubles ranking.
In the decisive match of the tournament, the duo from Latvia and Ukraine will face Belgian Elise Mertens and Taiwanese athlete Suvey Xie, who took second place in the tournament.
Ostapenko and Kichenok reached the Grand Slam final for the first time.
In the first round, the duo from Latvia and Ukraine defeated the Americans Emina Bektas and Kayla Deja 6:4, 7:6 (7:3), and in the second round they defeated the Australian tennis player Kimberly Birela 3:6, 7 :3. 6 (10:8), 6-3 and Olivia Gadecki defeated Zhu Lin of China and U Fansien of Taiwan 6:3, 7:5 in the third round and round of 16 respectively and in the quarterfinals they defeated the French duo Caroline Garcia/ Christina Mladenovic 7-6 (7:2), 6-4.
It was previously reported that Latvia’s strongest tennis player also took part in the Australian Open singles competition, where she lost in the third round 1:6, 5:7 to former world number one Viktorija Azarenka (WTA 22nd).
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