There can be a Canadian taking part in for some {hardware} throughout championship weekend on the Miami Open as Leylah Annie Fernandez and her American associate Taylor Townsend have superior to the ladies’s doubles remaining.
The duo mounted a powerful comeback late Friday night time to defeat Magda Linette and Bernarda Pera 1-6, 6-2, 14-12 within the semifinals and guide their place in Sunday’s remaining. Fernandez and Townsend have knocked out a number of formidable groups en path to the championship match together with Timea Babos/Kristina Mladenovic, Beatriz Haddad Maia/Giuliana Olmos, and Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko. They’ll have to tug off one other upset victory within the remaining in opposition to the second-seeded American pair of Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula in the event that they hope to carry the winners’ trophies.
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That is Fernandez’s second WTA doubles remaining of the season and the second of her younger profession. She completed because the runner-up in Auckland on the 12 months’s first event alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands. As for Townsend, she’ll be trying to seize her fourth WTA doubles title in her seventh profession remaining. She’s already gained two crowns in 2023, each in Adelaide. Miami would be the first WTA 1000 doubles remaining for each gamers.
Gauff and Pegula are one of many prime doubles groups on this planet and collectively have gained 4 WTA titles along with reaching the ultimate at Roland-Garros in 2022.
Fernandez and Townsend debuted as a staff on the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells a couple of weeks in the past and reached the quarter-finals. Sunday’s remaining on the Miami Open can be performed at 3:30 p.m. ET.
