The Associated Press
Canada’s Bianca Andreescu dropped her opening-round match 6-3, 6-4 to Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina at the Dubai Open on Monday.
Andreescu, from Mississauga, had two aces and broke on two of her six opportunities. Andreescu also won 63 per cent of first-serve points in the one hour 32-minute match.
Rybakina, meanwhile, fired six aces and converted on 4-of-7 break point chances, with three of them coming in the second set. The tournament’s ninth seed won 72.7 per cent of first-serve points.
In women’s doubles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., along with partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S., defeated Brazil’s Luisa Stefani and Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina 1-6, 6-3, 11-9.
Fernandez will next see action in women’s singles when she takes on world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in the second round on Tuesday.
She will then return to doubles to take on Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Xu Yifan Wednesday.