Bianca Andreescu returned to her success on the New York courts by beating Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the third round of the US Open.
The champion of the 2019 edition offered herself a broken service in the first game of the match and she repeated the feat on her rival’s fourth serve to offer herself the ascendancy on the first set in just 33 minutes. .
The 15th player in the world offered better opposition to the Canadian in the second set, but her 18 unforced errors and four double faults ended up weighing in the balance. Andreescu was opportunistic converting one of his only two break points, both tied at 3-3. The 22-year-old Ontarian was also effective in stopping her rival’s four break chances.
Andreescu played a very clean match overall with just 14 unforced errors against 30 for the Brazilian. The one who was warmly applauded by the crowd after her victory will face Caroline Garcia in the next round. The Frenchwoman hasn’t lost since August 8 when she won the title at the Cincinnati tournament.
Course over for Fernandez
Earlier in the evening, Canada lost a first of its colors at the United States Open when Laval’s Leylah Fernandez lost in straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (3) at the hands of the Russian Liudmila Samsonova in a second-round match Wednesday night.
A year after a sensational run that took her to the women’s singles final and made her a New York crowd favorite, 14th-seeded Fernandez was unable to solve the serve. his opponent.
Leylah Fernandez gets shown the exit
Samsonova, 23 and ranked 35th in the world, hit 10 aces without committing a single double fault. She hit 62 percent of her first pitches and won 81 percent of the runs after placing her first pitch in play.
Samsonova was so dominant on her serve that she only conceded 13 points to Fernandez the entire match and faced no break points. In addition, she created 13 break chances and converted two, both in the first set.
Failing to qualify in the third round, Fernandez showed a lot of guts in the 12th game of the second set, where she had to save five match points, to force a tiebreaker.
Fernandez started the game well by collecting a mini-break on the first point but then lost her serve four times, including two in a row that helped Samsonova build a 5-2 break lead.
Marino continues its beautiful story
In the afternoon program, the first Canadian in action, Rebecca Marino, advanced to the third round in New York by winning in two sets of 6-3, 7-6 against the 124e world player Daria Snigur.
This is the second time in his career that Marino has reached this milestone at a Grand Slam tournament. She had achieved the tour de force in 2011, at the French Open.
Against Romania’s Simona Halep on Monday, Marino had 13 aces, compared to Snigur’s only one, and three double faults. She also won 74 percent of the points after slotting her first inbounds serve.
Marino wins against Halep’s faller
The Vancouver athlete also took advantage of the irregularity of Snigur, who committed 48 unforced errors, including one while facing a match point.
Marino had three service breaks in eight chances and managed to save five of the seven break points she faced.
In the third round, Marino will give battle to the Chinese Zhang Shuai.
At the end of the evening, the Canadian Bianca Andreescu, champion in 2019, at the Brazilian and 15e world player Beatriz Haddad Maia will cross swords.
