Canada’s high two girls’s tennis gamers are heading to the third spherical on the Italian Open.
Bianca Andreescu recorded a pleasant upset, downing No. 20 seed Donna Vekic of Croatia 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 on the clay-court occasion on Friday.
Andreescu misplaced in straight units to Vekic within the second spherical of the Paris Olympics, with the Croatian happening to win a silver medal.
Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., will subsequent face No. 11 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.
Earlier, No. 25 seed Leylah Ferndandez of Laval, Que., beat Crotian qualifier Antonia Ružić 6-4, 6-0.
Like all seeded gamers, Fernandez bought a bye within the first spherical.
Fernandez, 2-2 on clay this season, will subsequent face Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk.
In the meantime, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., misplaced his first match in Rome.
The No. 27 seed dropped a 6-3, 6-4 choice to Vilius Gaubas of Lithuania within the second spherical of males’s singles.
Canadian teen Victoria Mboko, 18, misplaced her second-round match in opposition to No. 4 seed Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Mboko, from Toronto, superior to face Gauff after dismissing Italy’s Ariana Zucchini in straight units within the first spherical.
Ranked 158th on the planet, the Canadian has compiled a 33-4 file this season whereas racking up 5 titles on the lower-tier ITF circuit.
No. 26 males’s seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal begins his run in Italy on Saturday with a second-round match in opposition to Brazil’s Thiago Seyboth Wild.
