Erin Routliffe falls in quarterfinals on Wimbledon women’s doubles

Erin Routliffe is out of Wimbledon this year, but her run to the quarter-finals showed how ready she is to take the leap to become one of the very best doubles players in the world.

On Wednesday, Routliffe and Alicja Rosolska lost 6-1 6-7 6-3 against Americans Danielle Collins and Desirae Krawczyk in a game that lasted two hours and one minute.

Routliffe and Rosolska played against an unusual team, Krawczyk is a specialist in doubles and ranks 13th in the world, while Collins is eighth in singles and has made it to the Australian Open final. history as the last woman to ever lose to Ash Barty.

So they had to deal with a combination of Krawczyk’s doubles knowledge and Collins’ exceptional skill from her singles and it was one they couldn’t get over.

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Rosolska and Routliffe were both broken in a one-sided first set that lasted 24 minutes. Breaks were exchanged early in the second set and later there was another by Rosolska with a couple of double faults.

But Collins failed to hold the serve in the 10th game, which would have won the game for the Americans.

So the set ended in a tiebreak in which Routliffe struck out a crucial smash as Collins served at 4-5 and the next run also went against the Americans, so the game was square to one set each.

As was so often the case during Rosolska’s run at this year’s Wimbledon, she was broken when she first served in a set. This time, Collins managed to hold onto serving for the set, dropping just one point on a double foul in the final game.

Routliffe had never won a Wimbledon match this year, so if she makes the quarter-finals she should have faith in other grand slams.

“Every opportunity or experience we have gives us confidence,” said Routliffe.

“It helped us beat a top 10 team (Asia Muhammad and Ena Shibahara) in the round of 16 and that’s where we want to be, we want to go deep into slams whenever we can.

“We work well together and I am confident that we will move forward as a team, that we will have a good rest of the year.”

As the 27-year-old Routliffe has shown this year, she has reached a new level with her tennis. But when asked whether she wants to give singles another chance, she does not rule that out.

“Singles is a very different game,” she said.

“Right now I’m happy with where I am on doubles and I want to continue with the momentum we’ve picked up.

“I always say I’d like to play some smaller tournaments in singles and see where I stand because I feel like the last time I played singles I wasn’t really happy overall.

“So I think that played a big part in my results in singles. But it’s like a different sport, I could go out and not move around the field, it’s hard to say.

“I always try to sign up for tournaments, but I’ve lost my singles rankings. Maybe I’ll try a little more in the second half of the year, I don’t know.”

But New Zealand’s entry into this year’s Wimbledon isn’t quite over yet, with Jack Loutit advancing to the quarter-finals of the boys’ doubles.

On Wednesday, he teamed up with Australian Edward Winter to beat Brazil’s Joao Fonseca and Bolivia’s Juan Carlos Prado Angelo 6-7 7-6 (3) 10-6 for a place in the last eight.