PARIS — U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez has moved into the quarterfinals at Roland Garros for the primary time with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Amanda Anisimova.
The nineteen-year-old Fernandez had greater than two times as many winners, 35, as unforced mistakes, 17, and persevered her run of spectacular returning on the event. She broke Anisimova six instances and now has received 23 of her combatants’ carrier video games thru 4 fits.
Fernandez had by no means received greater than two consecutive main-draw fits on clay till this commute to Paris.
The Canadian made a leap forward final 12 months on the U.S. Open by way of making it all of the strategy to the overall earlier than dropping to Emma Raducanu in a matchup between a couple of unseeded youngsters.
Fernandez, the youngest participant to win a WTA identify in 2022, is seeded seventeenth on the French Open and can play Martina Trevisan of Italy subsequent.
The Twenty seventh-seeded Anisimova used to be a semifinalist at Roland Garros in 2019 at age 17. The American eradicated four-time main champion Naomi Osaka within the first spherical this 12 months.
