Canada's Dabrowski, partner Routliffe advance to U.S. Open women's doubles quarters

Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe run at a possible repeat at the U.S. Open lives on.

The defending women's doubles champions defeated Italy's Angelica Moratelli and Romania's Jaqueline Cristian 7-5, 7-6 (3) on Sunday to advance into the quarterfinals.

Ottawa's Dabrowski and Routliffe won the final two games of the second set to force a tiebreaker.

Dabrowski and Routliffe broke on three of their eight opportunities and fired 33 winners.

The top-seeded duo will next face the winner between Great Britain's Harriet Dart and France's Diane Parry, and Russia's Veronika Kudermetova and Taiwan's Hao-Ching Chan