Canada’s Leylah Fernandez continued her Wimbledon preparation with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 win over seventh seed Barbora Krejcikova on first-round motion Monday on the Rothesay Worldwide grass-court tennis match.
Fernandez, from Laval, Que., gained 81 per cent of first serve factors and saved seven of the 9 break factors she confronted.
The Canadian made probably the most of her probabilities when introduced with break level by changing 5 of 9.
Fernandez, who opened her grass-court season with a run to the third spherical final week in Birmingham, England, Dabrowski and Routliffe will subsequent face the winner of a match between qualifiers Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland and Ashlyn Krueger of the US.
In doubles motion in Eastbourne, the top-seeded duo of Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand superior with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Czech pair Anna Siskova and Miriam Kolodziejová.
Dabrowski and Routliffe will subsequent face Chinese language tandem Guo Hanyu and Jiang Xinyu.
In Germany, Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., was defeated 6-4, 6-2 by Russia’s Anna Blinkova within the first spherical of the Unhealthy Homburg Open.
Andreescu was coming off a run to the ultimate on the Libema Open within the Netherlands to kick off her grass-court season.
