(Indian Wells) Gabriela Dabrowski and Giuliana Olmos advanced to the doubles semifinals in Indian Wells on Tuesday, winning 6-2, 2-6, 10-7 ahead of Romania’s Irina Camelia-Begu and Monica Niculescu.
Posted yesterday at 8:31 p.m.
The Canadian-Mexican pair got the job done in 77 minutes.
Dabrowski and Olmos are the fifth seeds.
The other pair, with a Canadian in the running, did not enjoy the same fate.
A little later in the evening, Denis Shapovalov and his Indian teammate, Rohan Bopanna, lost their flag in three sets against the old-timer tandem of Mexican Santiago Gonzalez and Frenchman Édouard Roger-Vasselin 4-6, 6-4 and 4 -10, in the round of 16.
They bowed in one hour 27 minutes.
Shapovalov and his partner shone with 10 aces against only one for their rivals, but in return they committed nine double faults compared to the three made by their opponents.
Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin will cross swords with the Russian duo of Aslan Karatsev and Andrey Rublev in the quarter-finals.
At 9 p.m., Quebecer Leylah Fernandez will face Spaniard and defending champion Paulina Badosa.
The Lavalloise is 18and seeded, the Spaniard the fifth.
Third-seeded Iga Swiatek prevailed 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 over Angelique Kerber.
Polish, Swiatek triumphed at Roland-Garros in 2020.
Seventh seed, Andrey Rublev will also play in the evening, against Frances Tiafoe.