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Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo picked up another win on grass as Canada’s tennis players continued to prepare for Wimbledon.
The 23-year-old Diallo advanced to the second round of the Mallorca Championships with a 7-5, 6-3 win over local favourite Jaume Munar of Spain on Monday, which took just 56 minutes to complete.
The six-foot-eight Diallo fired 10 aces and saved both break points he faced. He broke Munar three times on four chances, including twice in a four-match winning streak to claim the second set.
Meanwhile, the top-seeded team of Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand were eliminated in the first round of action at the WTA 500 Bad Homburg Open in Germany.
Dabrowski, who played her first match after missing a month with a rib issue, seemed poised for a triumphant return after she and Dabrowski took the first set of a match against Taiwan’s Wu Fang-Hsien and China’s Jiang Xinyu. However, the reigning WTA Finals doubles champions ultimately lost the match 6-7 (7), 7-5, 10-8.
Main-draw action at Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam of the tennis season, begins June 30 on the grass courts of the All England Club.