Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino is out of the Australian Open after dropping a 6-2, 6-4 determination to American Jessica Pegula within the first spherical on Tuesday.
Pegula, the event’s fifth seed, landed 72 per cent of her first serves, whereas Marino struggled along with her service sport and landed simply 44 per cent.
The American additionally fended off 4 of 5 break-point makes an attempt in a match that lasted 65 minutes.
Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., the No. 32 seed, received her opening match over the weekend and was scheduled to satisfy unseeded American Alycia Parks on Wednesday (Tuesday night Japanese Time) in a second-round match.
Additionally Wednesday, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe – seeded fourth in girls’s doubles – had been set to satisfy Linda Fruhvirtova of Czechia and American Ashlyn Krueger within the opening spherical.
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, the lone Canadian nonetheless competing within the males’s singles draw, was scheduled to play Hugo Grenier of France in second-round play.
