Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Czech player Barbora Krejcikova have progressed to the next round at the Cincinnati Open. They secured a victory against the fourth-seeded team comprising Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and American Nicole Melichar-Martinez with a score of 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 in the women’s doubles Round of 32 on Monday. The match lasted one hour and 33 minutes.
This tournament marks the first time Dabrowski and Krejcikova have teamed up. Their next opponents in the Round of 16 on Tuesday will be the unseeded Czech pair of Linda Noskova and Marie Bouzkova.
In another match, Leylah Fernandez from Laval, Quebec, and her partner Sara Errani from Italy emerged victorious after a one-hour and 29-minute battle against Tamara Korpatsch from Germany and British professional Emily Webley-Smith. The scoreline was 6-2, 7-6 (2) in favor of the Canadian-Italian duo.
Although Fernandez and Errani took the first set in just 31 minutes, Korpatsch and Webley-Smith put up a strong fight in the second set, even leading 6-5 and serving for the win before faltering. Fernandez and Errani showcased two aces, 23 winners, one double fault, and only nine unforced errors out of the match’s total 34. They are set to face Chan Hao-ching from Taiwan and Maya Joint from Australia in the Round of 16.
Fernandez had previously been defeated by Xiyu Wang from China in the women’s singles event’s second round on Sunday.