Canada’s Leylah Fernandez was eradicated within the second spherical of the Abu Dhabi Open tennis event with a 6-3, 6-2 loss to McCartney Kessler on Tuesday.
Fernandez, who was seeded sixth on the WTA 500 exhausting court docket event, was damaged 5 occasions on 10 probabilities whereas solely changing considered one of her six break factors.
The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., struggled on serve and hit into eight double-faults.
Fernandez picked up her solely win of the season thus far when she defeated Chloé Paquet 6-0, 6-3 within the first spherical at Abu Dhabi.
She misplaced her first-round match on the Australian Open final month in Melbourne, in addition to her opener in warm-up tournaments in Brisbane and Adelaide.
Additionally Tuesday, Fernandez and Kristina Mladenovic of France fell 7-5, 3-6, 10-6 to Alexandra Eala of the Philippines and Janice Tjen of Indonesia in a first-round doubles match.
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