Two Canadians tennis player Robilliard-Millete and Carol Zhao on Wednesday enjoyed a win at the Saguenay National Bank Challenger. The tournament offers US$60,000 in prize money, which represents an increaseof US$10,000 compared to last year and will be played on October 23 to 29, 2017.
Zhao had the tough job of playing Belgium’s An-Sophie Mestach, who has already ranked 98th in the world in her second-round match.
The start of the match was punctuated by break-ups, but the 22-year-old tennis player managed to win her serve to take the lead and. She continued her pace in the second act to advance to the quarterfinals with a 6-4 and 6-2 win.
Robilliard-Millette on the other hand, she was the only Canadian not to have played in her first round match yet. Opposed Taipei’s Chief-Yu Hsu, the young Robilliard-Millette dominated her rival and took just under an hour to secure her place in the second round with 6-4 and 6-2 win.
The last game of the day featured both tennis player tandems, and it was Bianca Andreescu and Carol Zhao who defeated Anca Craciun and Petra Januskova 6-4 and 6-4. With this victory, they reach semi-final of the double.
Andreescu, she had previously became the youngest Canadian tennis player in 29-year-old to win a main draw match on the WTA tour Washington, where she reached the quarter-finals.
The tournament lost two more seeds on Wednesday. Indeed, Japan’s favourite Risa Ozaki fell to US’s Francesca di Lorenzo, while Belgium’s Ysaline Bonaventure bowed to United States tennis player Maria Mateas at the end of the season, a battle of nearly three hours.
Canada’s Robbiliard-Millette needed a little under an hour and a half to beat her opponent. (Source:www.zimbio.com)
The only seed to win on Wednesday match, other than Carlo Zhao, was Dutch tennis player Bibiane Schoofs, who defeated Serbia’s Jovana Jaksic.
The Saguenay National Bank Challenger is the last ITF tournament to be played at Quebec, Canada, in this year. It was preceded by the Drummondville, Gatineau and Granby National Bank Challenger.
