Canada's Leylah Fernandez falls to American Ashlyn Krueger at Abu Dhabi Open

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Canada's Leylah Fernandez dropped a 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 determination to American Ashlyn Krueger successful the quarterfinal of the Abu Dhabi Open tennis tourney connected Thursday.

Laval, Que., autochthonal loses quarterfinal 7-5, 4-6, 6-2

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Feb 06, 2025 9:19 AM EST | Last Updated: February 6

Canadian women's tennis subordinate Leylah Fernandez plays a backhand successful her first-round lucifer against Moyuka Uchijima of Japan astatine the Abu Dhabi Open connected February 4, 2025.

Canada's Leylah Fernandez dropped a 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 determination to American Ashlyn Krueger successful the quarterfinal of the Abu Dhabi Open tennis tourney connected Thursday.

Fernandez, seeded eighth, had conscionable 1 ace and 7 treble faults successful a lucifer that took 2 hours 24 minutes to complete.

The unseeded Krueger fired 8 aces, including 5 successful the opening set. Krueger won 62.7 per cent of her opening service points, compared to 55.5 per cent for Fernandez.

It was the 3rd vocation gathering betwixt the two, with Fernandez, from Laval, Que., winning astatine the Eastbourne International past twelvemonth earlier Krueger took the rematch astatine Toronto's National Bank Open.

Krueger volition adjacent look the victor of the quarterfinal betwixt Poland's Magda Linette and Czechia's Linda Noskova.

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