Andreescu's impressive run at Italian Open ends with 4th-round loss to Zhang

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 12, 2025 3:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Bianca Andreescu's tally astatine the Italian Open tennis tourney came to an extremity Monday with a 7-5, 6-1 nonaccomplishment to Qinwen Zhang successful the 4th round.

Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., looked poised to proceed her awesome tally astatine the WTA 1000 clay-court lawsuit arsenic she served for the triumph successful the archetypal acceptable successful Rome.

But Zheng, the eighth effect from China, saved acceptable constituent earlier completing her 4th interruption of the set, past closed retired connected serve.

That momentum carried implicit arsenic Zhang scored 2 much breaks successful a ascendant 2nd set.

Zhang overcame 8 treble faults and a 47.1-per-cent accuracy connected archetypal service to triumph successful 93 minutes.

Despite the loss, the tourney was a occurrence for the 24-year-old Andreescu, who returned to enactment earlier this twelvemonth aft astir six months disconnected to absorption connected her health.

The erstwhile satellite No. 4 and 2019 U.S. Open champion posted wins implicit 20th-seed Dora Vekic and 11th-seed Elena Rybakina successful Rome and is projected to leap 21 points to No. 100 successful the WTA rankings.

Also Monday, the top-seeded women's doubles squad of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand precocious to the quarterfinals with a walkover against Peyton Stearns of the United States and Australia's Daria Kasatkina.

Stearns and Kasatkina withdrew aft Stearns posted a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4) triumph implicit Naomi Osaka successful singles enactment earlier Monday. The triumph took 2 hours 41 minutes to complete.

Dabrowski and Routliffe volition adjacent look the victor of Tuesday's lucifer betwixt sixth-seeded Russians Diana Shnaider and Mirra Andreeva versus Taiwan's Chan Hao-ching and Mexico's Giuliana Olmos.