Ottawa native Gabriela Dabrowski and Barbora Krejcikova from Czechia have progressed in the Cincinnati Open. They defeated the fourth-seeded duo of Cristina Bucsa from Spain and Nicole Melichar-Martinez from the U.S. with a score of 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 during the Round of 32 in the women’s doubles tournament on Monday. The match lasted one hour and 33 minutes.
This is the first time Dabrowski and Krejcikova have teamed up in a tournament. Their next opponents in the Round of 16 on Tuesday will be the unseeded Czech pair of Linda Noskova and Marie Bouzkova.
Leylah Fernandez from Laval, Quebec, and her partner Sara Errani of Italy secured a victory against Tamara Korpatsch from Germany and British player Emily Webley-Smith in one hour and 29 minutes on Monday evening. The Canadian duo claimed the first set in 31 minutes, but Korpatsch and Webley-Smith put up a strong fight in the second set. Despite leading 6-5 and serving for the win, they couldn’t close it out.
Fernandez and Errani concluded the match with two aces, 23 winners, one double fault, and only nine unforced errors out of the total 34. They are set to face Chan Hao-ching from Taiwan and Maya Joint from Australia in the Round of 16.
Fernandez was defeated by Xiyu Wang from China in the Sunday’s second round of the women’s singles event.