MIAMI, Fla. — Leylah Fernandez superior to the third spherical of the Miami Open tennis match with a 7-6 (1), 6-3 win over Alycia Parks of the US on Thursday.
After dominating the first-set tiebreaker, Fernandez carried that momentum into the second set the place she scored three breaks whereas surrendering one and earned 59.3 per cent of complete factors.
Fernandez improved to 2-0 towards Parks, with their solely different assembly coming on the 2024 Australian Open.
In males’s first-round motion, Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo superior with a convincing 6-3, 6-0 win over Argentina’s Tomás Etcheverry.
The 22-year-old Fernandez, from Laval, Que., will subsequent face American Ashlyn Krueger as she seems to advance to the Spherical of 16 of the WTA 1000 match for the primary time in her profession,
Fernandez had a bye into the second spherical after getting into the match because the twenty sixth seed.
The six-foot-eight Diallo, who superior to the principle draw as a fortunate loser after shedding his ultimate qualifying match, made probably the most of his second likelihood by dispatching Etcheverry in 74 minutes.
The 23-year-old overcame 27 unforced errors by firing six aces and changing 5 of eight break factors.
Subsequent up for Diallo is a rematch with seventeenth seed Arthur Fils of France, who defeated the Canadian within the second spherical of Indian Wells earlier this month.
Diallo is 1-and-1 towards Fils after beating the Frenchman within the second spherical of the 2024 U.S. Open.
