Canada’s Fernandez, Andreescu advance to Toray Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals
Canadians Leylah Fernandez and Bianca Andreescu each superior to the Toray Pan Pacific Open quarterfinals.
Fernandez superior after defeating Varvara Gracheva 6-0, 3-6, 7-5 on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., fired three aces and transformed 5 of 11 break factors throughout a match that lasted two hours and quarter-hour. Gracheva, of France, stormed again within the second set, successful 72.2 % of her opening factors, earlier than Fernandez took the third set.
Andreescu, of Mississauga, Ont., superior after Beatriz Haddad Maia retired with a again harm whereas trailing 3-0 within the first set. Haddad Maia, seeded at quantity 2, gave the impression to be in ache from the second match onwards and took trip to be sick earlier than exiting the match.
Within the quarterfinals, Fernandez faces the winner of the event’s high seeds Qinwen Zheng of China and Moyuka Uchijima of Japan, whereas Andreescu faces both Katie Boulter or Kyoka Okamura.
In girls’s doubles, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and companion Erin Routliffe have been up 6-3, 1-2 over Japan’s Nao Hibino and Miyu Kato when their match was suspended.
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