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Bianca Andreescu delivered in her return for Canada against Kazakhstan, winning her singles match on the opening day of a two-day Billie Jean King Cup qualifier in Astana.
The Mississauga, Ont., product beat Sonja Zhiyenbayeva 6-4, 7-6 (4) to earn Canada’s lone point Friday.
Andreescu, 25, was playing her first Billie Jean King Cup tie since 2022 following a string of injuries.
The 2019 U.S. Open champion erased a 0-4 hole in the second-set tiebreak, winning seven straight points to close out the match on the indoor clay court.
Earlier, Yulia Putintseva topped Kayla Cross of London, Ont., 6-3, 7-5 to give Kazakhstan the early edge.
The best-of-five tie is 1-1 heading into Saturday, with the winner advancing to September’s Billie Jean King Cup finals in Shenzhen, China.
Sinner tops Auger-Aliassime in Monte Carlo
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime was knocked out in the quarterfinals of the Monte-Carlo Masters on Friday, falling 6-3, 6-4 to second seed Jannik Sinner.
The sixth-seeded Auger-Aliassime was broken once in each set in the 92-minute clay-court match.
Auger-Aliassime was outplayed in the second-serve exchanges, winning 47 per cent of those points compared to 71 per cent for Sinner, who improved to 5-2 in their career series.
Both players finished with 23 unforced errors.
Sinner extended his ATP Masters 1000 winning streak to 20 matches, joining Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic as the only players to reach that mark.
He will face third-seeded Alexander Zverev in Saturday’s semifinals.
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