Canada loses Polansky in singles, Shamsadin in doubles; Shapovalov last man standing at Roland Garros
PARIS (CP) — The Canadian contingent in the men’s singles draw at the French Open is down to one.
Peter Polansky of Thornhill, Ont., dropped a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 decision to Pierre-Hughes Herbert of France in a first-round match that concluded Wednesday. Rain suspended the match after two sets on Tuesday.
The loss leaves No. 24 seed Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., as the lone remaining Canadian in singles.
Vasek Pospisil, originally from Vernon and now residing in Vancouver, also lost his first-round match on Tuesday — falling 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to Marton Fucsovics of Hungary.
Shapovalov, 19, will play Germany’s Maximilian Marterer in the second round. The match will likely be played today.
Meanwhile, Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa is off to a winning start in doubles. The fifth-seeded team of Dabrowski and Yifan Xu of China downed Tessah Andrianjafitrimo and Fiona Ferro of France 6-3, 6-1 in their first-round match on Wednesday.
Dabrowski and partner Mate Pavic of Croatia are the top-seeded duo in the mixed doubles draw. Dabrowski won the mixed doubles title last year at Roland Garros with Rohan Bopanna of India.
In men’s doubles Wednesday, the secondseeded team of Pavic and Austria’s Oliver Marach beat Toronto’s Adil Shamsadin and Dutch partner Sander Arends 6-2, 6-2, while the 11th-seeded duo Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Spain’s Marcel Granollers defeated Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Jeremy Chardy of France 7-5, 6-2.
A scheduled doubles match between Pospisil and American Ryan Harrison against Argentina’s Federico Delbonis and Benoit Paire of France was postponed until today.
Also at the French Open, U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe tweeted: “Just FYI. Sloane Stephens is winning this tournament” after the 10th-seeded American dispatched qualifier Magdalena Frech 6-2, 6-2.