Leylah Fernandez cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 win over fellow Canadian Rebecca Marino in first-round ladies’s singles motion on Sunday on the US Open.
Fernandez of Laval, Que., had one ace and three double faults however transformed on all 5 of her break-point alternatives.
Marino, from Vancouver, fired two aces and in addition had three double faults within the one-hour, eight-minute match.
Nonetheless, she solely transformed certainly one of her 5 break-point probabilities.
The 34-year-old Marino got here into Sunday having gone by three qualifying rounds to make it into the principle draw.
Fernandez, the thirty first seed, will subsequent face the winner between Czechia’s Marie Bouzkova and France’s Elsa Jacquemot.