Canada’s Bianca Andreescu is with to the 4th round of the Italian Open WTA 1000 tennis event after uploading a 6-2, 6-4 success overNo 11 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan on Sunday in Rome.
Andreescu, a 24-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., transformed 3 break factors and conserved 5 to win the third-round suit in one hour 27 mins.
The 2019 UNITED STATE Open champ is back on the resurgence path after lately returning from almost 6 months off the WTA Tour.
Currently rated 121st, Andreescu made her very first win versus a top-20 challenger considering that 2023 on Friday with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 success versus Donna Vekic of Croatia in the 2nd round.
Rybakina had not went down an embeded in 3 previous conferences with Andreescu, consisting of a win in the 2nd round of the Madrid Open last month.
Andreescu will certainly play the champion of a suit in betweenNo 8 Qinwen Zheng andNo 26 Magdalena Frech in the following round.
Elsewhere on Sunday,No 24 seed Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., shed her third-round suit 6-4, 6-2 to Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine.
Kostyuk struck 5 aces and transformed 4 break factors, contrasted to one for Fernandez, en path to success.