Quebec’s Leylah Fernandez lost in the quarterfinals of the Auckland tournament in New Zealand on Friday.

Fernandez, third in the competition and 40th in the world, fell against Belgium’s Ysaline Bonaventure, 95th, in straight sets 6-4, 6-2.

The meeting lasted 1h09.

During the duel, Fernandez hit three aces but committed four double faults.

However, the Quebecer allowed her opponent to break her serve four times, giving her eight opportunities to do so. On the other hand, she was only able to win Bonaventure’s face-offs once despite having six chances to do so.

The Belgian won 64 of the 114 contested points in this match.

On a more positive note, however, Fernandez will be in the doubles final. Along with her partner, American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, she defeated the duo of Chilean Alexa Guarachi and Taiwanese Chan Yung-Jan. This semi-final match ended with a score of 2-6, 6-3 and 10-5.

In the final, Fernandez and Mattek-Sands meet the winners of the other semifinal match. This unites pairs of the Japanese Miyu Kato and the Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi as well as the Slovakian Viktoria Kuzmova and the Dutch Arantxa Rus.

“Shapo” powerless against Djokovic

In the men’s tournament, Canadian Denis Shapovalov lost to Serbian Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Adelaide, Australia.

“Shapo”, seventh in the tournament and 18th player in the ATP rankings, lost the flag in straight sets 6:3 and 6:4 to “Djoko”, the first seeded and fifth player in the world.

The meeting lasted 1h55.

The Canadian was erratic on serve, hitting six aces but committing seven double faults.

Above all, he offered the ex-world number one eight chances to break him, which he managed to do three times. For his part, Shapovalov managed to do this only once during the game.

Djokovic meets Russian Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals.

Linda Noskova invites herself to the semifinals in Adelaide

Linda Noskova, 18 years old and 102nd in the world, continues to cause a stir at the WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide: After eliminating the Russian Daria Kasatkina (8th in the world) in the 1st round, the young Czech offered the seeded N .4 , Belarussian Viktoria Azarenka, Friday in the quarterfinals.

Noskova defeated Azarenka (26th in the world), 15 years her senior, 6-4, 6-7(3), 7-6(6) after a long battle lasting almost three hours, coming by a service winner in his second match ended point.

Her qualification for the semifinals is a first for a player who has yet to qualify for the Grand Slam tournaments in 2022. There she meets Ons Jabeur, world No. 2 and seeded No. 1.

The Tunisian struggled the most against Romania’s Marta Kostyuk (69th in the world), 20, who only gave up in the decider in the first set after 4 games to 1 before breaking 2-2 in the second.

Jabeur then reacted like a champion, clenching the game then her fist after being instantly unbroken by saving three balls from 4-2 for her opponent during a hard fought sixth game.

Before finally getting rid of a very catchy player with 7-6 (7/5), 7-5.

At the bottom of the table, Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu (34th in the world) caused a bit of an upset by eliminating fourth-seeded Russian Veronika Kudermetova (9th in the world) 7-5, 6-4 to win the semi-final right to face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (5th in the world).

Sabalenka logically eliminated the Czech Marketa Vondrousova (92nd in the world) 6:3, 7:5. The N.2 seed will be the big favorite against Begu.

The game between Sabalenka and Begu will be broadcast on TVA Sports 2 from 10:30 p.m., while the game between Jabeur and Noskova will be broadcast on TVA Sports from 3:00 a.m.