Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger\u002DAliassime are among the Canadians on quest to win a Grand Slam at the U.S. Open on Monday.
The USTA National Tennis Center was the backdrop for Fernandez’s star-making turn a year ago, when she reached the women’s singles final as an unseeded player and captured the hearts of tennis fans in Canada and around the world.
Her spring was a washout after suffering a stress fracture in her foot at the French Open, where her quest ended in the quarterfinals. She missed Wimbledon and didn’t return until the National Bank Open in Toronto two months later.“I think my initial thought when I first got here was, ‘Wow, it’s so big.’ I just felt like a little kid once again in its own playground trying to find its way, go to the courts.
The 22-year-old will face Swiss qualifier Alexander Ritschard in the first round Monday. But Medvedev looms in the quarterfinals. For Bianca Andreescu, still just 22, it’s been a long three years since she defeated Serena Williams to win her first Grand Slam singles title in 2019. It was also where, after bursting onto the scene in Montreal in 2017 with a run to the semifinals that included beating the great Rafael Nadal, he went from the qualifying to the fourth round in his professional U.S. Open debut.
For Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino, now 31, this year’s U.S. Open will be the first time she has made it straight into the main draw on her own ranking since 2011. It was the site of her Grand Slam debut in 2010, after coming through the qualifying.
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