Victoria Mboko advances to Miami Open quarterfinals, defeating doubles partner Mirra Andreeva
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Canada’s Victoria Mboko earned a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-0 fourth-round win over Russia’s Mirra Andreeva on Monday at the Miami Open tennis tournament.
Mboko, the tournament’s 10th seed, had six aces to seven double faults and converted on just one of her six break-point chances.
However, the 19-year-old won 77.8 per cent of first-serve points in the two-hour, 17-minute women’s singles match.
Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., will face Karolina Muchová of Czechia in the quarterfinals Tuesday.
The 18-year-old Andreeva, the eighth seed, had six aces to two double faults and broke once in four chances. She won 66.7 per cent of first-serve points.
Mboko and Andreeva beat Australia’s Ellen Perez and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands 7-6 (7), 6-3 on Sunday in the Round of 32 in the women’s doubles tournament. They return to the court for a Round of 16 match on Tuesday against Australia’s Storm Hunter and Jessica Pegula of the United States.
In men’s singles action, Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime was ousted in the third round by France’s Terence Atmane 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.
The seventh-seeded Auger-Aliassime had 11 aces to four double faults and had 26 winners to Atmane’s 12. However, the Frenchman won three straight games to break a 2-2 tie in the final set before sealing the deal two games later.
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