Canadian tennis players Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov reached the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles leg of the Indian Wells tournament without playing on Sunday.
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The pair benefited from the package of the duo made up of Briton Cameron Norrie and Austrian Lucas Miedler.
“FAA” and “Shapo” will have to wait until Monday to find out who their next rivals will be. They will face the winners of the duel between the pair comprising Indian Rohan Bopanna and Briton Matthew Ebden and the team of Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Pole Hubert Hurkacz.
Auger-Aliassime is still part of the singles competition. On Monday, he will face Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo. For his part, Shapovalov lowered his flag in his first game. His faller was the French Ugo Humbert.
Earlier in the day, Canada’s Gabriella Dabrowski and her teammate, Brazil’s Luisa Stefani, defeated the duo of American Asia Muhammad and Kazakh Anna Danilina in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 in a sixteenth-finals.
In the next round, the representative of the maple leaf and her partner have an appointment with the Chilean Alexa Guarachi and the New Zealander Erin Routliffe.