WTA Toronto: Local favourite Fernandez crashes out to qualifier Kreuger
Kreuger will meet fellow American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, in the next round
Leylah Fernandez 2024 – Chryslene Caillaud / Panoramic
At the WTA National Bank Open on Thursday, Leylah Fernandez, the No 15 seed, was upset by American qualifier Ashlyn Krueger 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday.
Fernandez, ranked No 25, had previously won against Japanese lucky loser Nao Hibino (6-3, 5-7, 6-1) in round one of the WTA National Bank Open.
Krueger, ranked No 82, will play American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, next. Ahead of her victory, the 20-year-old American beat Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (6-3, 6-2).
Toronto WTA 1000, other second-round matches (Aviva Centre, hard, USD 3.211.715, most recent results first):
- Katie Boulter beat Beatriz Haddad Maia (13): 1-1 ret.
- Peyton Stearns vs. Madison Keys: thursday
- Emma Navarro (8) beat Magda Linette: 6-2, 6-4
- Taylor Townsend (LL) beat Marina Stakusic (WC): 6-0, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (6) beat Moyuka Uchijima (Q): 6-4, 6-2
- Coco Gauff (1) beat Yafan Wang (Q): 6-4, 6-4
- Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Lesia Tsurenko: 6-2, 6-2
- Marta Kostyuk (11) beat Elina Svitolina: 6-2, 2-6, 6-2
- Diana Shnaider (14) beat Magdalena Frech: 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
- Jessica Pegula beat Karolina Pliskova: 7-5, 6-4
- Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens
- Yue Yuan vs. Aryna Sabalenka
- Victoria Azarenka vs. Greet Minnen
- Paula Badosa vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Amanda Anisimova
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