Canada's Shapovalov advances, Fernandez ousted in Miami Open tennis

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 22, 2025 6:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Canada's Denis Shapovalov reached the 3rd circular of men's singles astatine the Miami Open portion Leylah Fernandez was ousted successful the 3rd circular of women's singles successful the tennis tourney Saturday.

Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., battled done a 6-3, 6-7(1), 7-6(3) triumph implicit Argentina's Thiago Tirante that lasted conscionable nether 2 hours 25 minutes.

It was Shapovalov's archetypal lucifer astatine the Masters 1000 lawsuit aft a first-round bye.

Fernandez fell 6-1, 7-5 to Ashlyn Krueger of the United States.

The 27th-seeded Shapovalov's adjacent hostile is 3rd effect Taylor Fritz of the U.S. The American downed Italy's Lorenzo Sonego successful consecutive sets to advance.

Shapovalov prevailed implicit Tirante by winning 75 per cent of his first-serve points, but the Canadian besides treble faulted 11 times to Tirante's 1 astatine the Hard Rock Stadium.

The Canadian had a accidental to adjacent it retired successful the 2nd acceptable erstwhile helium led 6-3, 5-3, 40-love, but Tirante saved 3 lucifer points, forced a decider, and past rallied from a breakdown to widen the match.

The 20-year-old Krueger held her service passim the lucifer against Fernandez and won 32 instrumentality points to the Canadian's 19.

The 22-year-old Fernandez returned to the tribunal Saturday with doubles spouse Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the U.S. The duo mislaid 6-2, 7-6(6) to Sofia Kenin of the U.S. and Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine.

Second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand were to look China's Xinyu Wang and Saisai Zheng successful a aboriginal women's doubles lucifer Saturday.

Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime was besides inactive successful contention successful men's singles. He meets 15th effect Lorenzo Musetti of Italy connected Sunday.