NEW YORK — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez could not re\u002Dcreate her magic from a year ago as she fell 3\u002D6, 6\u002D7 (3) to Liudmila Samsonova in the second round of the…
The second set turned into a back and forth affair as Fernandez battled her way to a tiebreaker at 6-6, looking to force a third set.
After two Samsonova errors that gave Fernandez a 2-0 lead, the Russian won seven of the next eight points to win the match.Auger-Aliassime, the sixth seed in the tournament, earned 13 aces to Draper’s nine, but was unable to win on any of his three break point opportunities. Draper broke the Canadian on three of 10 chances.Article contentEarlier on Wednesday, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open with a 6-3, 7-6 win over Ukraine’s Daria Snigur.
Marino advanced to the third round of a Grand Slam for the second time in her career, and the first time in over a decade. She advanced to the third round of the 2011 French Open.In women’s doubles action, the fifth-seeded pair of Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Giuliana Olmos of Mexico made quick work of Peyton Stearns and Ashlyn Krueger with a 6-2, 6-1 first-round win.
Dabrowski and Olmos won 80 per cent of their first-serve points and broke the American duo on five of 11 opportunities. Later today, 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu was slated to take on 15th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil.