Quebecer Leylah Annie Fernandez’s run at the Charleston tennis tournament ended in the second round on Wednesday.
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The 51e world player lost in two sets of 7-5 and 7-6 (8) against the Spaniard Paula Badosa. The 12e seed of the event held in South Carolina took 1 hour and 53 minutes to win.
Fernandez got into trouble while in possession of the balls. She committed seven double faults and hit 62% of her first face-off attempts.
The 20-year-old was broken three times, having faced 10 break points in that duel.
By virtue of the setback, Fernandez fails in his attempt to advance to the second round of a tournament for the first time since competing in Auckland in early January. Since then, the Montreal native has participated in seven WTA events.
A little later in the day, the Canadian Katherine Sebov will try to surprise Charleston against the Swiss Belinda Bencic. The latter is the fourth seed of the event.
A very bad first run sinks Eugenie Bouchard
Eugenie Bouchard was completely outplayed in the first set and was unable to turn the tide, despite holding up much better in the remainder of her second-round clash at the Bogota tournament.
The Quebecer thus lost 6-0, 6-7(7) and 6-4 against the Russian Kamilla Rakhimova.
Bouchard hit just 46% of his first serve attempts and was broken three times in the first set. She recovered her spirits afterwards and was much more combative, she who notably faced two match points during the tiebreaker of the second set.
During the final engagement, Rakhimova managed the only break of the set at 10e and last game.
Also in Colombia, Canadian Carol Zhao bit the dust 6-2, 6-1 against the holder of 817e rank in the WTA rankings, Francesca Jones. The Briton took advantage of the largesse of the 174e player on the world board on serve and broke it no less than seven times.