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The seeds who weren’t upset in the second round began to meet.

And it turned out that Canadian Leylah Fernandez, who just squeezed into the last seeded spot at No. 32, had the draw gods smiling upon her.

The bottom eight seeds – 25 through 32 – could have been drawn against any of the top eight seeds in the third round. In the end, Fernandez got the “best” outcome, the No. 8 seed Ons Jabeur.

Putting aside the fact that Jabeur is really struggling of late.

In the end, though, she fell just short as the Tunisian showed off some vintage form in coming back from being down in the third set.

ATP Madrid – Saturday results

(Madrid is 6 hours ahead of EDT)

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Mutua Madrid Open
Location: Madrid, Spain
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Dates: April 23 – May 5, 2024
Prize money: $8,770,480
Draws: S96 – D32

Saturday, April 27, 2024
Final results

Singles, third round

Canadian content

[8] Ons Jabeur (TUN) def. [32] Leylah Fernandez (CAN) 75 26 64

 

Upsets

[18] Madison Keys (USA) def [15] Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) 62 63

Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) def [23] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 76 (0) 63

 

Seeds rolling

[1] Iga Swiatek (POL) def [27] Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 61 61

[3] Coco Gauff (USA) def. [31] Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 64 61

[5] Maria Sakkari (GRE) def. Sloane Stephens (USA) 61 63

[9] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def [Q] Maria Lourdes Carlé (ARG) 63 63

[11] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) def. [19] Emma Navarro (ESP) 64 64

 

Doubles, second round

[5] Lyudmyla Kichenok. (UKR) / Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def Katie Boulter (GBR) / Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) 63 76 (6)

 

Doubles, first round

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Anastasia Potapova (RUS) def [2] Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) / Ellen Perez (AUS) 75 62

 

[1] Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) / Elise Mertens (BEL) def. Asia Muhammad (USA) / Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) 26 64 [10-2]

[3] Demi Schuurs (NED) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) def Magda Linette (POL) / Zhang Shuai (CHN) 62 61

[7] Caroline Dolehide / Desirae Krawczyk (USA) def. [WC] Donna Vekic (CRO) / Elena Vesnina (RUS) 62 61

Mirra Andreeva / Vera Zvonareva (RUS) def Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini (ITA) 75 64

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ATP Madrid – Friday, April 26, 2024 final results

WTA Madrid – Friday, April 26, 2024 final results

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