CINCINNATI, Ohio — After disappointing showings at their nationwide championships, Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez rebounded with first-round wins Wednesday on the Cincinnati Open tennis match.
Montreal’s Auger-Aliassime cruised into the second spherical with a 6-3, 6-1 win over American qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic.
Fernandez, from Laval, Que., was down a set and behind an early break earlier than rebounding to beat China’s Yuan Yue 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Each gamers stumbled in singles competitors ultimately week’s Nationwide Financial institution Open tournaments in Montreal and Toronto after returning to North America from the Paris Olympics.
Auger-Aliassime misplaced 6-3, 6-2 to Italy’s Flavio Cobolli within the first spherical of the Montreal match. Fernandez made it to the second spherical in Toronto earlier than being defeated 6-4, 6-2 by American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger.
That adopted an eventful Paris Olympics for each gamers, significantly Auger-Aliassime. The 24-year-old received mixed-doubles bronze with Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski whereas additionally advancing to the bronze-medal match of the lads’s singles competitors earlier than shedding a tricky three-set match to Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti.
Fernandez superior to the third spherical of the ladies’s singles match in Paris.
On Wednesday, Auger-Aliassime picked up his fifth break of Kovacevic to go up 5-1 within the second set then served out for the win by changing his first match level.
Auger-Aliassime will subsequent face Norway’s Casper Ruud within the second spherical of the match, which is a Masters occasion on the ATP Tour and a WTA 1000 occasion on the ladies’s tour.
The 2 final confronted one another within the males’s singles quarterfinals on the Olympics, with Auger-Aliassime profitable 6-4, 6-7, 6-3.
Fernandez got here again with a stable third set in opposition to Yuan through which she transformed 14-of-21 first-serve factors, together with two aces, and scored a pair of breaks.
She’s going to subsequent face fourth seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. Will probably be the primary assembly between the gamers.
