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Rinse meadows, New York – it happened quite often – far too often, really – on the men’s side.
But on Sunday, for the first time in the recent memory, two Canadian women will meet in the main drawing of a Grand Slam tournament such as Leylah Fernandez and Rebecca Marino Square on Court 17.
“She is a great player and an even better person, so it will be difficult to play against her. I know she is playing very well in recent weeks and to qualify here in New York, gives you a trust. I know that my game will be extremely difficult,” Fernandez said on Saturday.
“I enjoy my time and try to forget that I not only play against a friend, but also a fellow Canades, and just do my job.”
The two ran each other on the site after the qualifications were placed. And Fernandez said they could laugh about it.
“We were kidding a bit, such as:” Hey, see you tomorrow! “So it’s a bit funny.
If you think back a bit, New York was a place where many internal Canadian drama took place.
Two years in a row, Denis Shapovalov and Félix Auger-Aliassime met in the first round, just a few years away from their Junior Doubles title.
Here are all Canuck V Canuck meeting in Majors. For the women it is a first in the main drawing.
Marino is pretty match tough, played and won a trio of three Setters this week, on the way to her sixth US Open Main Draw.
Fernandez has had a little more struggle since her impressive – and unexpected – title on the WTA 500 in Washington, DC a month ago.
She actually had no turnaround time before she arrived at her hometown tournament in Montreal and lost her opener to Maya Joint, a young Aussie she had beaten 6-3, 6-3 in the first round in DC
Then she lost her opener of the in-shape Jessica Bouzas Maleiro in Cincinnati. And after she had flown all the way to Monterrey – a city that had been great for her in the past when it was a WTA 250 that took place for Indian Wells, she won her first round, but comes to Rebecca Sramkova in the second round.
Fernandez has not been lucky in New York since that crazy run to the final in 2021.
She was defeated in the second round in 2022 (Samsonova) and lost in the first round in 2023 (Alexandrova) and 2024 (Potapova).
To be honest, those are pretty rough first rounds. Fernandez was sown in 2022 and 2024, but Samsonova and Potapova, who were often sown in Majors, were not in those ears, but only a few places. So they were almost the worst outcomes for her.
Fernandez said it was hard to believe that Big 2021 Run was four years ago.
“It was an incredible year and an incredible tournament. I hope I can repeat that, but we’re going to take one game at the same time,” she said.
The two were assigned stage 17, which is a great court.
The two met once earlier, back in 2022.
It was at a WTA 125 level tournament in Tampico, Mexico. And Marino won it, 6-3, 6-3.
The two have some history together. When Fernandez just started, Marino just started again, after a five -year -old break. She was – if not entirely a mentor – a kind of tennis big sister.
The two even worked together a few times in double. The first time they combined to win an ITF of $ 25,000 in Gatineau, Quebec in 2019. Where Fernandez also won her first professional singles title.
And they have been Billie Jean King Cup teammates a number of times.
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