Canadian Branstine upsets Boisson in Wimbledon qualifying, will face Andreescu next

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 24, 2025 1:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Carson Branstine upset apical effect Lois Boisson connected Tuesday arsenic respective Canadians moved to the 2nd circular of the Wimbledon women's qualifying tournament.

Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., besides won her first-round qualifying lucifer against Brazil's Laura Pigossi and volition adjacent look Branstine connected Wednesday. The 2 Canadians precocious re-established a doubles concern aft teaming up to triumph the girls' doubles rubric astatine the 2017 Australian Open.

Rising prima Victoria Mboko of Toronto was besides a victor Tuesday portion ninth-seed Rebecca Marino of Vancouver and Kayla Cross of London, Ont., mislaid their first-round matches.

Branstine, from California but representing Canada connected the satellite stage, won 81 per cent of her first-serve points and broke Boisson 5 times connected 8 chances successful a 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-4 victory.

Boisson became an overnight sensation successful her autochthonal France aft a stunning tally to the semifinals of the clay-court French Open. The 22-year-old saw her ranking skyrocket 296 places to No. 65.

But she was not offered a wild-card into the Wimbledon main draw, and her bid to look successful a 2nd consecutive Grand Slam ended early.

Branstine opened her grass-court play with her archetypal vocation WTA Tour-level main gully triumph earlier this period astatine the Libema Open astatine 's-Hertogenbosh, Netherlands.

Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion and a erstwhile satellite No. 4, faced small absorption successful her lucifer Tuesday, cruising to a 6-2, 6-1 victory.

Andreescu overcame 20 unforced errors by breaking Pigossi 5 times connected 10 chances portion defending the lone 2 interruption points she faced.

Mboko, seeded sixth successful qualifying, came backmost from a acceptable down to station a 2-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2 triumph implicit Japanese seasoned Nao Hibino. She volition adjacent look Switzerland's Valentina Ryser connected Wednesday.

The 18-year-old improved her grounds this twelvemonth to 43-6, with astir of those wins coming connected the lower-tier ITF World Tennis Tour circuit.

She made her Grand Slam debut astatine the French Open, wherever she precocious to the 3rd circular aft qualifying for the main draw.

Cross couldn't physique connected a beardown opening acceptable against Romanian seasoned Patricia Tig successful a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 loss. The 20-year-old Cross besides mislaid to Tig successful the archetypal circular of French Open qualifying.

Marino fell 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 to Gabriela Knutson of the Czech Republic. The Canadian fired 10 aces, but besides had 11 double-faults.

The 34-year-old was looking for the 4th Wimbledon main-draw quality of her career.

Diallo advances to Mallorca quarterfinals

Montreal volition beryllium well-represented successful the quarterfinals of the Mallorca Championship aft Gabriel Diallo and Felix Auger-Aliassime won their second-round matches Tuesday.

Diallo continued his palmy grass-court play with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 triumph implicit Serbia's Laslo Djere.

Later, second-seed Auger-Aliassime joined his compatriot successful the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-3 triumph implicit France's Arthur Rinderknech.

Diallo scored his 2nd interruption of the lucifer to spell up 5-3 successful the 3rd set, past acceptable up lucifer constituent with back-to-back aces earlier wrapping up the triumph successful 1 hr 47 minutes.

The 23-year-old sixth effect won 83 per cent of first-serve points and had 10 aces portion redeeming 3 of the 4 interruption points helium faced.

Diallo, who entered the tourney with a career-high No. 41 ranking, is expected to interruption into the apical 40 aft this tournament.

He volition adjacent look 4th effect Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands astatine the ATP 250 event. Griekspoor defeated Diallo successful the 2nd circular of this year's French Open successful the lone different lucifer betwixt the players.

Diallo, who picked up his archetypal ATP Tour tourney triumph earlier successful the grass-court play astatine the Libema Open successful the Netherlands, is preparing for his archetypal quality successful the Wimbledon main gully aft falling successful qualifying astatine the past 2 events.

He has played successful 3 consecutive Grand Slam main draws since losing successful the 2nd circular of qualifying astatine the All England Club successful 2024.

Auger-Aliassime, who had a bye successful the archetypal round, picked up his interruption of the lucifer connected a Rinderknech double-fault to spell up 5-3 successful the 2nd set, past served retired to wrapper up the lucifer successful conscionable nether 1 hr 53 minutes.

The 24-year-old satellite No. 27 volition adjacent look Serbia's Hamad Medjedovic.

Auger-Aliassime is seeking grass-court momentum successful Mallorca arsenic helium heads into his sixth Wimbledon main gully looking for a amended effect astatine the All England Club. He has been eliminated successful the archetypal circular astatine the past 3 editions of the grass-court Grand Slam aft reaching the quarterfinals successful 2021.

Main-draw enactment astatine Wimbledon begins Sunday.