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Canada’s Fernandez, Andreescu win, Mboko and Shapovalov lose at Italian Open

“Canada’s Fernandez, Andreescu win, Mboko and Shapovalov lose at Italian Open”


Canada’s prime two ladies’s tennis gamers are heading to the third spherical on the Italian Open.

Bianca Andreescu recorded a pleasant upset, downing No. 20 seed Donna Vekic of Croatia 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 on the clay-court occasion on Friday.

Andreescu misplaced in straight units to Vekic within the second spherical of the Paris Olympics, with the Croatian occurring to win a silver medal.

Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., will subsequent face No. 11 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.

Earlier, No. 25 seed Leylah Ferndandez of Laval, Que., beat Crotian qualifier Antonia Ružić 6-4, 6-0.

Like all seeded gamers, Fernandez bought a bye within the first spherical.

Fernandez, 2-2 on clay this season, will subsequent face Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk.

In the meantime, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., misplaced his first match in Rome.

The No. 27 seed dropped a 6-3, 6-4 choice to Vilius Gaubas of Lithuania within the second spherical of males’s singles.

Canadian teen Victoria Mboko, 18, misplaced her second-round match towards No. 4 seed Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Mboko, from Toronto, superior to face Gauff after dismissing Italy’s Ariana Zucchini in straight units within the first spherical.

Ranked 158th on the planet, the Canadian has compiled a 33-4 file this season whereas racking up 5 titles on the lower-tier ITF circuit.

No. 26 males’s seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal begins his run in Italy on Saturday with a second-round match towards Brazil’s Thiago Seyboth Wild.

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