Published: 2025-05-30 06:51:43 | Views: 20
Canadians Gabriel Diallo and Denis Shapovalov are out of the French Open after second-round losses Thursday.
Montreal's Diallo lost 7-5, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 6-3 to Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands, while 27th seed Shapovalov fell 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6), 4-6, 4-6, 6-3 to Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic.
The losses leave qualifier Victoria Mboko as the lone Canadian remaining in the singles draws. The Toronto teen faces Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen of China in a third-round match Friday.
Diallo came back from 4-1 down in the second set and nearly broke to go up 5-4, but Griekspoor held with back-to-back aces, then pulled away in the tiebreak. Diallo took the third set, but the 35th-ranked Dutchman broke early in the fourth and served out the match to love.
Shapovalov rallied from two sets down to force a fifth, but Misolic broke early and held off a late push. The Canadian had a double-break point in the ninth game, but double-faulted on his first chance before losing the game — and the match.
In women's doubles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and partner Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan cruised to a 6-0, 6-2 win over Romania's Monica Niculescu and Poland's Katarzyna Piter.
Fernandez and Putintseva face 12th seeds Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia and Olivia Nicholls of Britain in the second round Friday.
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