Canadians Leylah Fernandez and Victoria Mboko are set to conflict within the semifinals of the Hong Kong Open tennis match after cruising to quarterfinal wins on Friday.
Fernandez, the second seed in Hong Kong, superior with a 6-4, 6-4 win over seventh-seed Sorana Cirstea of Romania.
Mboko, seeded third, superior when sixth-seeded Russian Anna Kalinskaya retired whereas trailing 6-1, 3-1.
Fernandez saved 4 of 5 break factors whereas breaking Cirstea on three of 9 probabilities in her second win over the Romanian veteran this month.
The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., defeated Cirstea within the semifinals of the Japan Ladies’s Open en path to claiming the fifth title of the profession.
The 19-year-old Mboko, from Toronto, was dominating her quarterfinal earlier than Kalinskaya retired after 48 minutes. She had 9 aces and didn’t undergo a break whereas claiming 61.8 per cent of whole factors.
Mboko seems to be again in kind after a slumped that adopted her first WTA title on the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal. She had misplaced 4 matches in a row after her breakout win earlier than reaching the quarterfinals of the Pan Pacific Open final week in Tokyo.
Will probably be the primary assembly between the Fernandez and Mboko.
Fifth-seeded Maya Joint of Australia was set to face Spain’s Cristina Bucsa within the different semifinal of the WTA 250 occasion.
