DOHA — It was a troublesome day for Canadian tennis gamers on the Qatar Open on Wednesday with each Leylah Fernandez and Gabriela Dabrowski making fast exits from their respective occasions.
Fernandez was defeated 6-3, 6-0 by American Amanda Anisimova in third-round singles motion on the WTA 1000 occasion.
The world No. 27 from Laval, Que., could not get something going towards Anisimova, who wrapped up the match in a tidy 64 minutes.
The American saved the one two break factors she confronted whereas changing 4 of her eight break factors towards Fernandez.
It was the primary assembly between the gamers since 2022, when Fernandez picked up wins over the American at Indian Wells and the French Open.
Earlier, Ottawa’s Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand had been eradicated from the ladies’s doubles competitors with a 6-2, 6-1 loss to Russians Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider.
The Russians wanted simply 56 minutes to publish the win excessive seeds. They saved each break factors they confronted whereas breaking Dabrowski and Routliffe 4 instances on six possibilities.
In a dominant second set, Andreeva and Shnaider received 14-of-17 first-serve factors, in comparison with 4-of-8 for his or her favoured opponents.
The uncommon early exit for Dabrowski and Routliffe, the reigning WTA Finals doubles champions, comes on the heels of a run to the semifinals finally month’s Australian Open.
