Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino, meanwhile, lost her first-round match 6-3, 6-4
Leylah Fernandez spent two days dissecting one opponent’s game and had to pivot quickly before hitting Centre Court on home soil on Wednesday.
“I found out about the change around 4:30 ,” said the tournament’s 15th seed, who faced Hibino some 2 1/2 hours later. “We’d just spent a good amount, like 48 hours, of analyzing.The 21-year-old Laval, Que., product improved to 4-1 against Hibino after the win.
Next up is qualifier Ashlyn Krueger of the U.S. in Thursday’s second round. The pair’s only head-to-head came in June on grass at the Rothesay International when the Canadian picked up an emphatic 6-2, 6-1 victory. to Poland’s Magda Linette on Wednesday. The first Canadian to win the event in 55 years back in 2019, Andreescu was eliminated Tuesday night after the Mississauga native dropped her first-round match 0-6, 6-3, 6-4 to Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko.
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