Canada’s Leylah Fernandez moved on to the quarterfinals of the Rothesay Traditional grass-court tennis match with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 win over Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic on Wednesday.
Fernandez, from Laval, Que., claimed the one break level on provide within the third set to win the match in two hours 21 minutes.
Golubic went forward after successful a equally clear set within the first when she transformed the one out there break level.
Each gamers had struggles holding serve within the second set. Fernandez was damaged thrice on 5 break factors, however transformed on 4 of 9 breaks to take the set and even the match at 1-1.
Fernandez, the sixth seed in Birmingham, will face Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic within the quarterfinals of the WTA 250 occasion.
In girls’s doubles motion, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand misplaced 6-3, 6-2 of their first-round match in opposition to Belgium’s Greet Minnen and Britain’s Heather Watson. Dabrowski and Routliffe had been seeded second after successful a title final week in Nottingham, England.
