(Hong Kong) Quebecer Gabriel Diallo lost 6-1, 7-5 and 7-5 to Coleman Wong in the second round of the Hong Kong tennis tournament, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.
Diallo, 40e in the world, gave up after two hours and 29 minutes in front of the tennis player from Hong Kong, ranked 150e on the world stage. Wong improved his career record to 1-0 against Diallo.
The representative of the maple leaf achieved nine aces, against 10 for his opponent, and the two tennis players committed three double faults each.
In addition, Diallo, a little more precise than Wong with his first service ball, only converted four of his 15 break points. For his part, Wong, a guest, recorded four breaks in 11 occasions.
The local favorite dominated the Canadian 34-31 in winning shots during their duel, and Diallo committed more unforced errors (45-38) than him.
In the quarter-finals, Wong will face tournament favorite, Italian Lorenzo Musetti. The latter disposed of the Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (3), 6-2 and 6-4 to set the table for a duel against Wong.
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(Adelaide) Canadian Victoria Mboko saved two match points en route to a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (6) victory over Russian Anna Kalinskaya on Tuesday, giving her a bye to the quarter-finals of the Adelaide tennis tournament.
Mboko, the eighth seed in the last preparatory tournament before the Australian Open, saved a match point at 6-5 in the third set, before saving another in the final tiebreaker, en route to a victory in two hours and 22 minutes against the 33e world player.
The Canadian thus increased her career record to 2-0 against Kalinskaya, after taking advantage of her retirement from the Hong Kong tournament – which she eventually won – in November 2025.
This result set the table for a quarter-final duel in Adelaide against the winner of the match between the Czech Tereza Valentova, 60e in the world, and the American Madison Keys, second seed.
The 19-year-old Ontarian had four aces, committed five double faults and converted six of her 14 break points against Kalinskaya. The latter, however, recorded five breaks in nine opportunities.
For her part, Leylah Annie Fernandez, 22e racket in the world, was eliminated by the Russian Diana Shnaider, 11e world player, in two sets of 7-5, 6-3.
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Leylah Annie Fernandez
Fernandez hit two aces, but committed four double faults in his defeat against Shnaider, in 97 minutes of play.
The Quebecer had three break points, but was unable to convert one, unlike the Russian, who broke it twice in eight occasions.
Fernandez did not do badly on his serve, winning 70% of the points contested on his first ball, but his opponent was uncompromising in this facet, with 85% success.
On the men’s side, Quebecer Gabriel Diallo, 41e in the world, was eliminated in two sets of 6-3 and 7-6 (4) by the Italian Andrea Vavassori, 336e.
Both players hit five aces and three double faults, but Diallo only won 76% of the points contested on his first serve, unlike 86% for his opponent.
Diallo got a single break point and converted it. Vavassori, for his part, broke Diallo twice on three occasions.
The 24-year-old Montrealer will have the opportunity to redeem himself next week, when the Australian Open gets underway.
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Russian tennis player Anna Kalinskaya failed to reach the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 tournament in Adelaide.
In the second round match, Kalinskaya lost to eighth seeded Victoria Mboko from Canada with a score of 2:6, 6:3, 6:7 (6:8). The meeting lasted 2 hours 22 minutes.
Mboko’s next opponent will be the winner of the match Tereza Valentova (Czech Republic) – Madison Keys (USA, 2).
WTA 500. Adelaide International. Adelaide (Australia). Hard. Prize fund – more than 1.2 million dollars
Second round
Victoria Mboko (Canada, 8) – Anna Kalinskaya (Russia) – 6:2, 3:6, 7:6 (8:6)
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Ukrainian tennis player Lyudmila Kichenok Doubles reached the semi-finals without a fight in the tough tournament WTA 500 in AdelaideAustralia.
In the quarter-finals, the Ukrainian player and her US partner Desiree Krawczyk had to play against the first seed. Alena Ostapenko (Latvia) and Xie Shuwei (Chinese Taipei).
However, the meeting will not be held due to Ostapenko’s withdrawal. On January 13, Alena was unable to complete her Adelaide 1/16 singles final match against Tereza Valentova due to neck/shoulder problems.
Ostapenko refused to continue against her Czech opponent with scores of 5:7 and 2:3, losing the 5:0 advantage in the first match.
Kichenok and Krawczyk will race Eja Muhammad and Erin Rutliff or Ellen Perez and Demi Schurs in the semi-finals of the 500 in Adelaide. At the beginning of the competition, Lyudmila and Desiree beat the Irina Khromacheva / Alexandra Panova duet.
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