2023-08-22 23:27:00
Quebecer Leylah Annie Fernandez is on fire at the Cleveland tennis tournament, she who has just crossed the round of 16.
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Tuesday, once morest Denmark’s Clara Tauson, she easily won the first set 6-0 and her opponent then gave up. The two young women are old rivals, as they have faced each other many times in the juniors.
Fernandez is on a roll in Ohio. She had won her first match of the competition in two sets of 6-0 and 6-2 once morest the Czech Linda Noskova.
In her clash of the day, the 72nd player in the world won all the rallies that started on her first service attempts. She also broke the 90th athlete in the WTA world rankings three times, on as many occasions.
For her quarter-final duel in Cleveland, Fernandez will face the winner of the match between the Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina and the German Tatjana Maria.
Marino is just passing through Chicago
At the Chicago tournament, Canadian Rebecca Marino lost in straight sets 7-6(4) and 6-1 in her first round duel once morest Italian Lucia Bronzetti.
The 32-year-old Torontonian hasn’t enjoyed the bliss of winning the main draw at a WTA event since the Birmingham tournament at the end of June.
Marino saw bronzetti, the fifth seed in this competition, take his serve on three occasions. The representative of the maple leaf missed her only breaking opportunity.
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