Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime aren’t leaving Florida just yet.<\/p>\n
Both Montreal natives earned victories to advance at the Miami Open on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Fernandez is headed to the third round after a 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-1 victory over Russia’s Oksana Selekhmeteva.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old fired three aces while converting on five of 10 break-point opportunities in the win.<\/p>\n
Fernandez, seeded 26th, will next face fifth-ranked American Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Auger-Aliassime dispatched of Hungary’s Marton Fuscovics in straight sets, 7-6 (3), 7-5, to reach the fourth round.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime, seeded seventh, fired six aces to just one double fault in the match. He converted four break points in six attempts.<\/p>\n
He’ll next face unseeded Terence Atmane of France.<\/p>\n
Later Saturday, fellow Canadians Victoria Mboko and Gabriel Diallo are also in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime aren’t leaving Florida just yet. Both Montreal natives earned victories to advance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-551807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}