Six Canadians in main draw for Wimbledon

Quebecer Félix Auger-Aliassime will lead a contingent of six Canadians who will take part in the Wimbledon tournament.

Auger-Aliassime, the highest-ranked Canadian in singles and 17^e seeded, will begin the third major tournament of the season by crossing swords with Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis. Ontarian Denis Shapovalov will face Chilean Nicolas Jarry (no. 19).

In the ladies’ category, Quebecer Leylah Annie Fernandez (30^e) will play a first match against the Italian Lucia Bronzetti. Ontarians Bianca Andreescu and Marina Stakusic will also play in the main draw.

Andreescu will meet the Romanian Jaqueline Cristian while Stakusic, who is 19 years old, will make her Grand Slam debut by facing the Czech Katerina Siniakova (27^e).

For Andreescu, it will be a fourth tournament in a row after taking a 10-month break. Recently, she reached the third round at Roland Garros and the final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

The singles main draw gets underway on Monday at the All England Club.

In doubles, Ontarian Gabriela Dabrowski and her partner, New Zealander Erin Routliffe, will battle Mirra Andreeva and Anastasia Potapova in the first round. Fernandez and her partner, the Japanese Ena Shibahara, will play against the Chinese Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo.

Dabrowski notably reached the women’s doubles final at Wimbledon in 2019. Earlier this year, she and Routliffe lost in the semi-finals at the Australian Open.

In men’s doubles, Shapovalov will team up with Kokkinakis. They will compete against the tandem formed by the Tunisian Skander Mansouri and the French Nicolas Mahut.

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