DOHA, Qatar — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez picked up a pair of wins Monday on the Qatar Open ladies’s tennis event.
Fernandez, from Laval, Que., superior to the second spherical of the singles draw with a 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over twelfth seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia.
She then teamed with Oksana Kalashnikova of Georgia for a 6-4, 3-6, 13-11 win over Italian duo Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani within the opening spherical of doubles.
Fernandez scored an early break within the second set in opposition to Samsonova and seemed to be on the verge of victory with a 5-2 lead.
Samsonova answered that break to chop the result in 5-4 and ultimately compelled a tiebreaker.
Fernandez regained management within the additional session and gained on her first match level likelihood when Samsonova hit Fernandez’s service return lengthy, ending the match in two hours, 10 minutes.
Fernandez evened her profession document in opposition to Samsonova at 1-1. The Russian was victorious of their first assembly within the second spherical of the 2022 U.S. Open.
Subsequent up for Fernandez is wild-card Paula Badosa of Spain.
Later, Fernandez and Kalashnikova survived a tricky problem from Errani and Paolini to choose up the primary win of their partnership.
Fernandez and Kalashnikova gained 49.3 per cent of accessible factors within the match, however 54.2 per cent of factors within the decisive set.
They may subsequent face the top-seeded staff of Belgium’s Elise Mertens and Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan.
