–
Flushing Meadows, New York-the attention to the Canadian double side has been on the surprise, last-minute duo of Leylah Fernandez and the legendary Venus Williams.
But the Cana-Kiwis, champions on the WTA 1000 in Cincinnati only a few weeks ago and the number 3 seeds in the draw also roll along.
Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe moved to the third round on Sunday with a 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2 victory over the units of Quinn Gleason and Ingrid Gamarra Martins.
This is what it looked like.
That followed a much more routine opener on Thursday, a 6-3, 6-0 win over Czech pair of Miriam Skoch and Marketa Vondrousova.
They play no. 13 seeds Cristina Bucsa and Nicole Melichar-Martinez, who won the Monterrey tournament that led to the US Open, on Monday in what could be a challenging.
The Pick-up Wildcard team of Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez continued this week with their unlikely but very popular run.
After a heavy opener on paper against no. 6 seeds Lyudmyla Kichenok and Ellen Perez (which they won 7-6 (4), 6-3), they won their second round on Saturday with an almost identical score: 7-6 (1), 6-1 against Ulrikke Eikeri and Eri Hozumi.
Both games were planned for the stands for the time being, with the possibility to be moved to one of the big stadiums if time was allowed.
In both cases, time was allowed and they attracted large crowds at Louis Armstrong Stadium.
At Labor Day Monday, they are planned at Armstrong from the start-the fourth and last match after three singles matches (including two men’s matches) against no. 12 seeds Ekaterina Alexandrova and Zhang Shuai.
Alexandrova plays Iga Swiateek in Singles earlier in the afternoon, at the same court.
Williams and Fernandez are in half that contains no. 1’s Townsend and Siniakova, and no. 5s Shnaider and Andreeva.
Dabrowski and Routliffe can have the number 2 seeds, Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini, to contend.
So an unlikely (almost) double-Canadian Doubles collision could only happen in the final.
About post -author
#CanaKiwis #Fernandez #womens #dubbelsopen #Court