Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Czech player Barbora Krejcikova progressed in the Cincinnati Open by defeating the fourth-seeded duo of Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Nicole Melichar-Martinez from the US with a score of 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 in the women’s doubles Round of 32. This tournament marks their first collaboration as a pair. In the Round of 16, they are set to challenge the unseeded Czech team of Linda Noskova and Marie Bouzkova on Tuesday.
Additionally, Leylah Fernandez from Laval, Quebec, and her partner Sara Errani of Italy later faced Romania’s Sorana Cirstea and Mira Andreeva of Russia on Monday. Fernandez had previously encountered a defeat against China’s Xiyu Wang in the women’s singles tournament’s second round.