Canada's Gabriel Diallo picks up another win on grass as Wimbledon draws near

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 1:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Montreal's Gabriel Diallo picked up different triumph connected writer arsenic Canada's tennis players continued to hole for Wimbledon.

The 23-year-old Diallo precocious to the 2nd circular of the Mallorca Championships with a 7-5, 6-3 triumph implicit section favourite Jaume Munar of Spain connected Monday, which took conscionable 56 minutes to complete.

The six-foot-eight Diallo fired 10 aces and saved some interruption points helium faced. He broke Munar 3 times connected 4 chances, including doubly successful a four-match winning streak to assertion the 2nd set.

Diallo, 23, who won his archetypal vocation ATP tourney 2 weeks agone astatine the grass-court Libema Open successful the Netherlands, entered the tourney with a career-high satellite ranking of No. 41. He volition adjacent look Serbia's Laslo Djere astatine the ATP 250 grass-court tournament.

Meanwhile, the top-seeded squad of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and spouse Erin Routliffe of New Zealand were eliminated successful the archetypal circular of enactment astatine the WTA 500 Bad Homburg Open successful Germany.

In men's Wimbledon qualifying successful London, Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., precocious to the 2nd circular with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 triumph implicit Murphy Cassone of the United States. He volition adjacent look British chaotic paper Oliver Tarvet.

Liam Draxl, from Newmarket, Ont., failed successful his bid to suffice aft losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Serbian seasoned Dusan Lajovic.

Women's qualifying starts tomorrow, with Toronto's Victoria Mboko, Vancouver's Rebecca Marino, Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., Kayla Cross of London, Ont., and Carson Branstine each scheduled to play.

Branstine, who was calved and raised successful California but represents Canada internationally, has an intriguing opening qualifying lucifer against Lois Boisson. The top-qualifying effect captivated fans successful her location state with an unexpected tally to the semifinals of the French Open earlier this month.

Main-draw enactment astatine Wimbledon, the 3rd Grand Slam of the tennis season, begins June 30 connected the writer courts of the All England Club.