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.