Winner of her first round singles match the day before, Eugenie Bouchard also enjoyed victory in her opening doubles meeting at the tennis tournament in Chennai, India, Tuesday.

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Along with Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, the Quebec tennis player won in sets 6-2 6-4 against the fourth seeds, Xinyun Han of China and Katarzyna Kawa of Poland. The winning pair took advantage of their opponents’ five double faults to score five breaks on eight occasions.

The next tandem rivals are Oksana Selekhmeteva and Anastasia Gasanova from Russia or Ankita Raina from India and Rosalie van der Hoek from the Netherlands.

The win is another positive for Bouchard, ranked 902nd in the world, who on Monday bagged his first main draw win at a WTA Tour event since March 2021. You squared off against local player Karman Thandi (ranked 359th). The latter also lost his flag during qualifying for the recent National Bank Championships in Granby ahead of Canada’s Cadence Stuffer.

Expedited matches

Meanwhile, Carol Zhao quickly resolved the case of Olivia Tjandramulia from Australia. The 187th racket in the WTA won in identical sets 6-1 and 63 short minutes of first round.

Zhao didn’t have to save once against the 120th player on the tour. She had five breaks on 12 occasions, taking advantage of her opponent’s inability to get ahead on her second serve. Tjandramulia only won three of the 13 points up for grabs while holding the second ball.

In the next round, Zhao will face the second seed, Varvara Gracheva of Moscow, ranked 80th in the world.