Gabriela Dabrowski sailed a return past Timea Babos and threw her hands up in the air in triumph.

The Ottawa native had just given herself and partner Mate Pavic of Croatia the Australian Open mixed doubles title.

Dabrowski and Mate Pavic saved a championship point before combining to beat Rohan Bopanna of India and Timea Babos of Hungary 2-6, 6-4, 11-9 under a closed roof Sunday at Rod Laver Arena.

Dabrowski and her partner Mate Pavic of Croatia beat Hungary's Timea Babos and India's Rohan Bopanna 2-6, 6-4 and 11-9 in a tiebreak. It's Dabrowski's second major mixed doubles title, after winning at the French Open last year. 1:00

It's the second career major for Dabrowski, who became the first Canadian woman to win a Grand Slam title last year when she won the French Open mixed championship with Bopanna.

She and Pavic were combining for the first time in Australia, and they hadn't dropped a set on the way to the final.

They rebounded Sunday from their first set loss to win the second, setting up the match tiebreak — a race to 10 points with a margin of two.

"A couple of weeks ago in Brisbane, I read an article where it said that Bopanna was playing with Babos and I hadn't spoken to him yet about playing," Dabrowski said. "I had a lot of other things going on, so I was kind of just procrastinating [about] the decision, I suppose, to find a partner for the mixed doubles.

"Then after I read that article, straightaway I messaged some people and Mate was one of those people and he responded almost immediately."

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AUSOPEN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AUSOPEN</a> CHAMPIONS! 🏆🏆 <br><br>🇨🇦 <a href="https://twitter.com/GabyDabrowski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GabyDabrowski</a> wins her second Grand Slam title (first with 🇭🇷 Pavic)! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CdnTennis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CdnTennis</a> <a href="https://t.co/gU27bjD26F">pic.twitter.com/gU27bjD26F</a> —@TennisCanada

Asked if she was surprised that her French Open-winning partner was playing with someone else at the Australian Open, Dabrowski replied: "Yeah, I mean, only because we hadn't spoken about it. I wasn't about to go find another partner without talking to him first. But this is the business and this is the industry that we are in, and you kind of just have to have a tough skin."

Hot start to season continues

The season-opening Australia swing has been a good one for the Canadian.

The 25-year-old teamed with China's Xu Yifan to win the Sydney International women's doubles title earlier this month.

Pavic has collected two Grand Slam titles within 24 hours. He teamed with Austrian Oliver Marach to win the men's doubles title Saturday night, in the match that followed Caroline Wozniacki's win over Simona Halep in the women's singles final.

What an amazing few weeks in Australia. A big congrats and thank you to my mixed partner, Mate Pavic, you are on fire 🔥. And thank you to all who make these tournies possible, players love coming back here every year. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AusOpen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SydneyInternational?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SydneyInternational</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrisbaneInternational?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BrisbaneInternational</a> <a href="https://t.co/a4mM78uUNK">https://t.co/a4mM78uUNK</a> —@GabyDabrowski

Babos, who won the women's doubles title on Friday, and Bopanna were seemingly in control of the final, which was played indoors after organizers enforced the tournament's extreme heat policy as the temperature neared 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

But Pavic and Dabrowski recovered to level the match in the second set and then raced to a 6-3 lead in the deciding extended tiebreaker.

Bopanna and Babos rallied for a 9-8 lead, setting up championship point, but two straight Pavic aces put the Canadian-Croatian duo back on top before Dabrowski returned Babos' serve for the winner.