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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez cruised into the second round of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Alexandra Eala of the Philippines on Tuesday in Stuttgart, Germany.
Fernandez overcame six double-faults by breaking Eala four times on eight chances.
Eala had just three break point chances against Fernandez and converted one.
Fernandez will next face fifth seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy or Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez at the WTA 500 clay-court event.
The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., who entered the tournament ranked No. 25 in the world, improved her record to 5-9 this season.
Tennis tourney on soccer pitch?
The ATP Finals. The Davis Cup Finals. And now a Wimbledon tune-up on grass courts that could be played on the soccer pitch inside Milan’s San Siro stadium.
Led by top-ranked Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis movement keeps on adding new events.
The Italian Tennis and Padel Federation has purchased the rights for a 250-level ATP Tour tournament in Brussels that is held in October, federation president Angelo Binaghi announced Tuesday.
The event will be held each June starting in 2028.
“There’s still time to decide where to play it,” Binaghi said. “For climate reasons, it will probably be held in northern Italy.”
Binaghi noted that the Madrid Open is introducing practice courts inside Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium, so the San Siro could be an option: “For once, we wouldn’t be the first to do it.”
Italy previously hosted a WTA tournament on grass in Gaiba from 2022-24. The federation is also hosting the ATP Finals, currently in Turin, through 2030 and the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna through next year.
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