Canada’s Victoria Mboko is out of the Wuhan Open tennis match after a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova on Monday.
Alexandrova, the eighth seed in Wuhan, broke Mboko 4 instances on eight probabilities and received 56 per cent of complete factors in wrapping up the match in a single hour 20 minutes.
Mboko, ranked No. 24 on the planet, has now misplaced three straight matches after profitable her first profession WTA title on the 1000-series Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal.
Her season report fell to 53-12.
The 19-year-old from Toronto began the 12 months on a 22-match unbeaten streak within the lower-tier ITF circuit earlier than efficiently making the soar to the highest tier of ladies’s tennis.
Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., faces No. 11 Naomi Osaka of Japan in first-round motion on the WTA 1000 match Tuesday morning (Monday night time ET).
