Article by Luminița Paul – published on Saturday, September 6, 2025, 16:20 / Updated on Saturday, September 6, 2025 4:21 pm
Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada, 33) and her partner Erin Routliffe (New Zealand, 30) defeated the main favorites Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova with 6-4, 6-4, regaining the title to the double doubles after two years after they first conquered it. And after the Canadian player went through treatment and two operations in 2024 for the cancer that had been diagnosed.
At the beginning of 2025, Dabrowski revealed in an emotional post that he played in the previous season the time that had treatment for breast cancer that had been diagnosed in April 2024.
She took a break of two and a half months, during which she performed radiotherapy and supported two operations during the season in which she and Routliffe arrived in the Wimbledon final, Dabrowski won the bronze medal at the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympic Games with Felix-Auger aliassime And became the first winner Canadian at the WTA Finals.
After lifting the trophy in New York this year, Dabrowski told the press conference that it was a “crazy journey.” “Cancer, broken ribs for both, it was crazy, honest”, List the 33 -year -old player.
Gabriela Dabrowski: “I'm proud of us. It wasn't easy”
“I am very proud of us. It was not easy, but I think we have shown that, even if we do not have a consistent program as the other teams, we can still reach a very high level, which is wonderful. I think this proves our work ethics and everything we have invested on the ground, outside the field, as a friend, to maintain chemistry. I think everything has culminated in this moment“Gaby said.
She told how she found out she had cancer: she discovered a node on her left breast during a self -examination in the spring of 2023, but at that time a doctor told her that there is nothing serious and that there are no concern. “So I wasn't scared,” Gaby pointed out.
Gabriela Dabrowski at WTA Finals 2024 Photo: Guliver/Gettyimages
A year later, the nodule had grown, which is why the player was urged, during an examination with a doctor from the WTA, to do more thorough analysis. So it started with mammography, continued with ultrasound, and finally the radiologist called it and informed that the formation does not seem to be a cyst because it has irregular edges.
“It looks ugly, I want you to do biopsy immediately“, He sent him. The next morning he went to a hospital in Wesley Chapel, where he was analyzing on his left breast. And the result came on the same day: cancer.
Gabriela Dabrowski: “Cancer did this, it shook me”
“Something had to happen to me had to shake me, and the cancer did that. He shook me. I do not mean to say that I am not grateful for my before life, for the people in it or for the life experiences I had. But it was a little bigger, because it shook me up to the depths of my soul and made me understand what it means to live, what it means to practice a sport to live“, confessed Gaby for Olympics this year.
The summary of the Double Female Finelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iygytgnmyk
At the US Open 2025, Dabrowski and Routliffe won the seventh title together. Their goal for the future is to regain the 1st place in the world ranking and win more Grand Slam tournaments as a duo. Of course, after they celebrate this title.
“I think we have high standards,” Dabrowski said. “We want to be the best.”
