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Clara Tauson eliminated from Toronto WTA doubles

From DR Nyheder · () Danish

Translated from Danish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

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  • Clara Tauson and her doubles partner Ann Li were eliminated from the WTA tournament in Toronto.
  • They lost in the quarterfinals to Jelena Ostapenko and Su-Wei Hsieh.
  • Tauson had previously been eliminated from the singles tournament.

Danish tennis player Clara Tauson has been eliminated from the WTA tournament in Toronto, Canada, in the doubles competition. Tauson and her American partner Ann Li lost their quarterfinal match to the Latvian-Taiwanese duo of Jelena Ostapenko and Su-Wei Hsieh.

The match, played on hardcourt, saw the first set decided by a close tiebreak, which Ostapenko and Hsieh ultimately won. In the second set, Tauson and Li were unable to overcome their opponents, falling 7-6, 6-4, thus ending their run in the tournament.

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This doubles defeat follows Tauson's earlier exit from the singles event in Toronto. The 23-year-old Dane was defeated in the first round of the singles tournament by 20-year-old Nikola Bartunkova of the Czech Republic in straight sets.

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Clara Tauson is out of the doubles in the WTA tournament in Toronto. Together with her partner Ann Li from the USA, Tauson lost 7-6, 6-4 to Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia and Su-Wei Hsieh from Taiwan.

โ€” Article textThe article reports on Tauson's doubles match loss.
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Originally published by DR Nyheder in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.