In men’s doubles, Canadians Félix Auger-Aliassime and Milos Raonic caused a surprise with a 6-3, 1-6 and 10-0 victory over Nicolas Mahut and Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday in New York at the Western & Southern tournament.
The representatives of the maple leaf have recovered after losing heavily in the second round. They did not concede any points to their opponents in the super tiebreaker.
Mahut and Struff are respectively third and 46e in the world in doubles, while Auger-Aliassime and Raonic are 308e and 731e.
Britain’s Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram will be their opponents in the second round. The latter defeated the Chilean Cristian Garin and the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
Auger-Aliassime defeated Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili in two singles rounds on Saturday. He was then playing his first meeting on the circuit since February 27. He has a date with Tennys Sandgren in the second round.
Raonic also triumphed against American Sam Querrey.
Fernandez unable to pass
The career of Quebecer Leylah Annie Fernandez (111e) for its part stopped in the first round in singles. She lost in three sets of 0-6, 6-4 and 6-3 in front of the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (39e).
Fernandez had started her working day well, breaking her opponent’s serve four times in a row from the start. She herself, however, lost control of her serve by suffering the breakage three times in each of the last two. sleeves.
The 17-year-old notably offered 16 break points to Jabeur, committing nine double faults in the loss. She still won 51% of the points in this duel.
Fernandez had secured her ticket to the main draw in qualifying with a win over American Kristie Ahn on Friday.
Other results
In doubles, Denis Shapovalov had to admit defeat, along with Rohan Bopanna, in two sets of 6-4 and 7-6 (1) ahead of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos. Despite everything, he will continue his singles journey with a duel against Struff in the second round.
Finally, the Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and the American Alison Riske also bowed. The Russian tandem of Ekaterina Alexandrova and Vera Zvonareva defeated them in two sets of 6-3 and 6-4.
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