PARIS - Bianca Andreescu's comeback hit a snag Wednesday when she was bounced from the second round of the French Open qualifying tournament.
The 17th seed from Mississauga, Ont., had match point against Japan's Nao Hibino up 5-3 in the second set. But she failed to convert, and Hibino came back for a 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 victory on the clay courts of Roland Garros that took two hours 31 minutes to complete.
Andreescu was one of three ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥s eliminated from qualifying Wednesday at the second Grand Slam of the tennis season.
Germany's Tamara Korpatsch cruised to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over 24th seed Marina Stakusic of Mississauga, and 10th seed Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland was a comfortable 6-0, 6-3 winner over Carson Branstine, a Californian who represents Canada internationally.
The 24-year-old Andreescu, a former world No. 4 and the 2019 U.S. Open champion, is back on the court after a nearly six-month layoff after she underwent emergency appendix surgery in February. She has had some success this year on clay — which she has said is not her strongest surface — including a run to the fourth round of the WTA 1000 Italian Open earlier this month.
Rising star Victoria Mboko of Toronto, the last ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ alive in qualifying, plays a second-round match Thursday against Kathinka von Deichmann of Liechtenstein.
Elsewhere, Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal defeated Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Hamburg Open.
Auger-Aliassime, seeded sixth in Hamburg, is using the ATP 500 tournament as a tune-up for the French Open after he withdrew from the Italian Open with a sore back. He will next face France's Alexandre Muller, who advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5) upset of top seed Alexander Zverev.
This report by ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥was first published May 21, 2025.
