Canada’s Leylah Fernandez is thru to the quarterfinals on the Toray Pan Pacific Open after downing Varvara Gracheva 6-0, 3-6, 7-5 on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., fired three aces and transformed on 5-of-11 break factors in the course of the two-hour 15-minute match.
Gracheva, of France, battled again within the second set, successful 72.2 per cent of her first serve factors, earlier than Fernandez rallied within the third set.
The quarterfinals will see the Canadian tackle the winner of a matchup between the match’s high seed, Qinwen Zheng of China and Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima.
Canada’s Bianca Andreescu is about to face second-seeded Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil within the second spherical of the WTA 500 occasion in a while Wednesday.
In ladies’s doubles motion, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and her accomplice Erin Routliffe have been up 6-3, 1-2 on Japanese pair Nao Hibino and Miyu Kato when their match was suspended.