(Dubai) Quebecer Leylah Annie Fernandez reached the quarter-finals of the doubles tournament with her American playing partner Bethany Mattek-Sands, Wednesday, at the Dubai Tennis Championship.
Fernandez and Mattek-Sands came from behind to defeat China’s Xu Yifan and Russia’s Aliaksandra Sasnovich 3-6, 6-1, 13-11 after an hour and 26 minutes.
They will now face the winners of the duel opposing the Russian duo formed by Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova to that composed of the Mexican Giuliana Olmos and the Chinese Shuai Zhang.
The day before, Fernandez saw her singles run in Dubai come to an abrupt end after she lost a sharp 6-1, 6-1 second-round loss to world No. 1 Iga Swiatek.
For her part, Ontario’s Bianca Andreescu was ousted in the first round 6-3, 6-4 by Kazakh Elena Rybakina on Monday.