Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Barbora Krejcikova from Czechia moved forward in the Cincinnati Open by defeating the fourth-seeded team of Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Nicole Melichar-Martinez from the United States with a score of 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 in the Round of 32 of the women’s doubles event. This marks their inaugural partnership in a tournament. Their next opponents in the Round of 16, set for Tuesday, will be the unseeded Czech pair Linda Noskova and Marie Bouzkova.
Meanwhile, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Quebec, and Sara Errani from Italy competed against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea and Mira Andreeva from Russia on Monday. Fernandez had previously faced a defeat against China’s Xiyu Wang in the women’s singles tournament’s second round on Sunday.
