Canadian Branstine upsets women's top seed at Libema Open, Diallo also advances

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 11, 2025 1:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 11

Carson Branstine upset women's apical effect Liudmila Samsonova portion chap Canadian Gabriel Diallo downed men's eighth effect Jordan Thompson connected Wednesday astatine the Libema Open grass-court tennis tournament.

Branstine, ranked No. 231 successful the satellite and playing successful her archetypal WTA Tour-level main draw, completed the 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 triumph with a ascendant 3rd acceptable aft the lucifer was suspended Tuesday nighttime owed to acheronian with the players tied astatine a acceptable each in s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Branstine didn't look a interruption constituent successful the last acceptable portion breaking Russia's Samsonova, ranked 18th successful the world, doubly successful 4 chances.

The 24-year-old Canadian qualifier is acceptable to look Romania's Elena-Gabriela Ruse successful second-round enactment connected Thursday.

Diallo into quarterfinals

Montreal's Diallo came backmost from a acceptable down to bushed Australia's Thompson 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 and beforehand to the men's quarterfinals.

Diallo, ranked 55th connected the ATP Tour, had 11 aces and was breached conscionable erstwhile connected 10 chances arsenic helium picked up his 2nd vocation triumph connected grass. He converted 3 of the 7 interruption chances helium had against Thompson, who is ranked 37th successful the world.

Diallo volition adjacent look 3rd effect Karen Khachanov of Russia, who needed a third-set tiebreaker to get past American qualifier Mackenzie McDonald connected Wednesday.

In women's doubles quarterfinal action, Branstine and Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., mislaid 7-5, 6-3 to the second-seeded squad of Hungary's Fanny Stollar and Russia's Irina Khromacheva. Andreescu is inactive live successful the singles tourney and volition look seventh effect Lulu Sun of New Zealand successful the 2nd circular connected Thursday.

Branstine was calved successful Irvine, Calif., to an American begetter and a Canadian mother. She represented the United States astatine the younker level until switching to Canada successful 2017.