Andreescu out of U.S. Open after straight-sets loss to Garcia in third round

NEW YORK –

Canada’s Bianca Andreescu has fallen out of the U.S. Open with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to France’s Caroline Garcia in third-round play on Friday evening.

Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., saved it shut early when she tied issues up at 2-2 within the opening set, capped by a Garcia backhand compelled error.

Garcia then went on to win 4 of the subsequent 5 video games to win the set, with three of her 4 factors in Recreation 9 coming from errors on Andreescu’s half.

Within the second set, Andreescu was capable of tie it up early at 1-1, however Garcia gained the subsequent 4 video games earlier than the 2019 champion gained one other.

Garcia closed the match behind consecutive errors from Andreescu. She’s going to tackle Alison Riske-Amritraj subsequent within the fourth spherical.

In girls’s doubles second-round motion, fifth seeds Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Giuliana Olmos of Mexico defeated American tandem Whitney Osuigwe and Hailey Baptiste 6-1, 6-4.

Dabrowski and Olmos broke on 4 of 10 alternatives, and gained 77 per cent of first-serve factors. The duo will subsequent play the winner between ninth seeds Asia Muhammad and Ena Shibahara and American duo Catherine Harrison and Ingrid Neel.

Earlier on Friday, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino was eradicated after a 6-2, 6-4 loss to China’s Zhang Shuai in third-round singles motion.

Marino was up 2-1 within the first set earlier than Zhang gained the subsequent 5 video games. Zhang broke to like in Recreation 7 to go up 5-2, then transformed her first set level on serve within the deciding recreation.

Zhang continued her profitable streak, taking an early break and going up 2-0 within the second set. She held serve the remainder of the best way and transformed her first match level to finish the competition in a single hour three minutes.

Zhang didn’t face break level, and broke Marino thrice on eight probabilities. She’s going to subsequent face Coco Gauff.

Marino was competing within the third spherical of a Grand Slam for simply the second time in her profession, and first because the 2011 French Open.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept. 2, 2022.