Canada's Diallo, Shapovalov eliminated in 2nd round of French Open

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 29, 2025 1:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

Canadians Gabriel Diallo and Denis Shapovalov are retired of the French Open aft second-round losses Thursday.

Montreal's Diallo mislaid 7-5, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3 to Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands, portion 27th effect Shapovalov fell 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6), 4-6, 4-6, 6-3 to Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic.

The losses permission qualifier Victoria Mboko arsenic the lone Canadian remaining successful the singles draws. The Toronto teen faces Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen of China successful a third-round lucifer Friday.

Diallo came backmost from 4-1 down successful the 2nd acceptable and astir broke to spell up 5-4, but Griekspoor held with back-to-back aces, past pulled distant successful the tiebreak. Diallo took the 3rd set, but the 35th-ranked Dutchman broke aboriginal successful the 4th and served retired the lucifer to love.

Shapovalov rallied from 2 sets down to unit a fifth, but Misolic broke aboriginal and held disconnected a precocious push. The Canadian had a double-break constituent successful the ninth game, but double-faulted connected his archetypal accidental earlier losing the crippled — and the match.

In women's doubles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and spouse Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan cruised to a 6-0, 6-2 triumph implicit Romania's Monica Niculescu and Poland's Katarzyna Piter.

Fernandez and Putintseva look 12th seeds Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia and Olivia Nicholls of Britain successful the 2nd circular Friday.

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