Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Barbora Krejcikova from Czechia have progressed to the next round at the Cincinnati Open. They secured a victory against the fourth-seeded team comprising Cristina Bucsa from Spain and Nicole Melichar-Martinez from the US with a score of 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 in the Round of 32 of the women’s doubles event on Monday. The match lasted for one hour and 33 minutes.
This tournament marks the debut of Dabrowski and Krejcikova as a doubles pair. Their next opponents in the Round of 16 on Tuesday will be the unseeded Czech duo Linda Noskova and Marie Bouzkova.
Leylah Fernandez from Laval, Que., and her partner Sara Errani from Italy secured a win against Tamara Korpatsch from Germany and Emily Webley-Smith from Britain after a match lasting one hour and 29 minutes on Monday night. The Canadian duo claimed the first set in 31 minutes, but Korpatsch and Webley-Smith put up a strong fight in the second set, taking the lead at 6-5 and serving for the win before faltering.
Fernandez and Errani concluded the match with two aces, 23 winners, one double fault, and only nine unforced errors out of the total 34. They are set to face Chan Hao-ching from Taiwan and Maya Joint from Australia in the Round of 16.
In the women’s singles event, Fernandez was defeated by Xiyu Wang from China in the second round on Sunday.