Canada’s Bianca Andreescu was eliminated dry in the second round of the Adelaide tournament on Wednesday.

Andreescu, ranked 46th in the world, bent the spine in front of Russia’s Veronica Kudermetova, fourth-seeded and ninth-ranked player in the world, in straight sets 6-4, 6-0.

The meeting lasted 1h19.

The Canadian took a 4-0 lead in the first set before losing the next 12 games.

“I think I started the game fantastically,” said Andreescu after the game. (My) confidence was pretty high, but at the same time she wasn’t hitting big shots, so there wasn’t much rhythm. Then she started hitting really good shots and my serve was less efficient. […] There’s a reason she’s in the top 10 in the world.

“I think this is the first time I’ve lost 12 games in a row. It’s crazy.”

Andreescu still managed to break her rival’s serve twice in three tries. However, Kudermetova had 15 break chances, which she took six times.

The Russian was extremely effective with her service returns, winning 64.7% of the points on the Ontarian’s first serve. Kudermetova won 59 of 98 points played in the duel.

In the next round, Kudermetova meets the winner of the match between seventh-seeded Latvian Jelena Ostapenko and Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu.

In her first match of the tournament, Andreescu defeated the Spaniard Garbine Muguruza in three sets after a spectacular comeback.

Watch Andreescu’s interview with Stephanie Myle in the video above.

Fernandez in the semifinals

At the Auckland tournament, Leylah Annie Fernandez reached the semifinals of the doubles component of that competition.

During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the Quebecer and her partner, the American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, beat the Spaniards Aliona Bolsova and Rebeka Masarova 7: 5, 1: 6 and 10: 5.

It was a round of 16 game. However, Fernandez’s team benefited from the elimination of the duo of Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto and China’s Wang Xinyu to advance straight to the semifinals.

Fernandez, a single in Auckland, will be in action on Thursday. In the round of 16 she meets the Austrian Julia Grabher.