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Two Canadians on the docket Thursday in Madrid.

Rebecca Marino took on No. 24 seed Elise Mertens, but was outmatched in a relatively routine win for the Belgian (who, perhaps fortunately for the Canadians, was not on hand in Vancouver a few weeks ago when Canada edged past Belgium to reach the BJK Cup finals)

And on the doubles side, the first of the three four teams wth CanCon takes to the court, as Cana-Qiwi Erin Routliffe and partner Alexa Guarachi met the No. 1 seeds, Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula.

They played them tough, but went down in a pair of tiebreaks.

WTA Madrid – Friday, April 28, 2023 final results

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Mutua Madrid Open
Location: Madrid, Spain (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Category: WTA 1000
Dates: April 25 – May 7, 2023
Prize money: $7,652,174
Draws: S96 – D32

Thursday, April 27, 2023
Final results

Singles, second round

Canadian Content

[24] Elise Mertens (BEL) def. Rebecca Marino (CAN) 63 61

Upsets

Jule Niemeier (GER) def [10] Petra Kvitova (CZE) 76 (9) 61
[WC] Mirra Andreeva (RUS) def [13] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 76 (6) 63
[Q] Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) def [17] Magda Linette (POL) 62 76 (3)
[WC] Rebeka Masarova (ESP) def [20] Donna Vekic (CRO) 61 76 (5)
Mayar Sherif (EGY) def [30] Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) 62 76 (3)
[WC] Camila Osorio (COL) def [32] Marta Kostyuk (UKR) 36 64 63

Seeds advancing

[2] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 64 63
[5] Caroline Garcia (FRA) def. Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 63 64
[6] Coco Gauff (USA) def. [Q] Irene Burillo Escorihuela (ESP) 64 61
[9] Maria Sakkari (GRE) def. [Q] Arantxa Rus (NED) 64 64
[14] Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) def Maryna Zanevska (BEL) 62 63
[19] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def. Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE) 60 63
[26] Paula Badosa (ESP) def. Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA) 63 46 64
[31] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) def. Karolina Muchova (CZE) 64 75
[33] Shelby Rogers (USA) def Ana Bogdan (ROU) 62 62

Doubles, first round

[1] Coco Gauff / Jessica Pegula (USA) def Alexa Guarachi (CHI) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) 76 (5) 76 (1)

Victoria Azarenka (BLR) / Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) def [3] Desirae Krawczyk (USA) / Demi Schuurs (NED) 62 36 [10-7]
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) / Elena Rybakina (KAZ) def [7] Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara (JPN) 60 61

[8] Xu Yifan / Yang Zhaoxuan (CHN) def. Ekaterina Alexandrova / Anastasia Potapova (RUS) 75 62