Leylah Fernandez, of Canada, returns a shot to Anastasia Potapova, of Russia, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in New York. Fernandez and Indonesia's Aldila Sutjiadi advanced to the women's doubles semifinals at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament on Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Matt Rourke
WUHAN, China – Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi advanced to the women’s doubles semifinals at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament on Friday.
The duo defeated the second-seeded team of Australia’s Ellen Perez and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States 6-4, 6-4 in quarterfinal action.
Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Sutjiadi won 72.5 per cent of their first-serve points and broke on four of their 11 opportunities in the one-hour 19-minute match. They also saved 11-of-13 break-point chances.
Fernandez and Sutjiadi will next face Americans Jessica Pegula and Asia Muhammad.
In other quarterfinal doubles action, the top-seeded duo of Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe fell 6-4, 6-3 to Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Russia’s Irina Khromacheva.
Dabrowski and Routliffe only won 59 per cent of their first-serve points and broke just once on four attempts, while their opponents won 85.7 per cent of their first-serve points and broke four out of nine times.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 11, 2024.
