Canadian Andreescu, Mboko, go to the second round at Italian Open

Rome-Die Canadier Bianca Andreescu and Victoria Mboko won on Wednesday at the opening round at the Italian Open WTA 1000 tennis tournaments against local favorites.

Andreescu from Mississauga, Ontario, was only a few problems of Italy’s Federica Drust in a 6: 0, 6: 3 victory and won 97.1 percent of the first service points without meeting a breakpoint in a dominant first set.

The 24-year-old drove to a 5-1 lead in the second set before Drangsi answered with a stop and a break. Andreescu laid the game with her six break-point conversion to 10 chances.

Andreescu will compete in the second round of Donna Vekic from Croatia with the 20th seed. Vekic won the only other game between the two at the Olympic Games in Paris last year, which was also played on Clay.

Andreescu, a former world No. 4 and the US Open Champion from 2019, returned from a six-month absence to the WTA racing route in the Open de Rouen in early this year. She improved to 2: 3 in the season, with her different victory at the Madrid Open WTA 1000 event.

Previously, Torontos Mboko achieved a comfortable 6-2, 6: 3 victory over Italy’s Arianna Zucchini

Mboko, who took part in their second event of the 1000 series through qualifying, converted six fragments, including three in a sequence in which the 18-year trading breaks for Canadian and zucchini brought over the last five games of the second set.

Mboko, who has a record of 33: 3 to 158th place this season.

In the second round, she will be exposed to the fourth seed from the United States in the second round.

The other Canadian in the Draw of women, Leylah Fernandez from Laval, que.

Felix Auger-Aliasseime and Gabriel Diallo, both from Montreal, and Denis Shapovalov from Richmond Hill, Ontario, will be entered on the men’s side.

Diallo is facing the first round in the American Marcos Giron on Thursday, while Auger-Aliasseime and Shapovalov BYES have.

This report by Canadian Press was first published on May 7, 2025.

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