Fernandez roars into the final at Eastbourne
Canada's Leylah Fernandez has advanced to the final of the Rothesay International grass-court tennis tournament in England.
Fernandez, of Laval, Que., eliminated defending champion Madison Keys 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in a semifinal Friday at the Wimbledon tune-up event.
She will face Russia's Daria Kasatkina, who scored a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 semifinal victory over Italy's Jasmine Paolini, in Saturday's final.
Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe will play for the women's doubles title in Eastbourne on Saturday after outlasting Spain's Cristina Bucsa and Japan's Makoto Ninomiya 6-7 (2), 6-4, 10-8 in a semifinal Friday.
Dabrowski and Routliffe, a dual citizen who grew up in Caledon, Ont., meet Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in the final.
Five Canadians — three women and two men — are part of the singles competition draw at Wimbledon, which was announced Friday.
Montreal's Felix Auger-aliassime, the top Canadian seed in singles play at No. 17, opens the men's draw against Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis, while Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., faces No. 19 Nicolas Jarry of Chile.
Fernandez, seeded 30th in the women's draw, opens against Italy's Lucia Bronzetti. Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., will meet Jaqueline Cristian in her first match, while 19-year-old Marina Stakusic, also from Mississauga, makes her Grand Slam debut against No. 27 Katerina Siniakova.
Singles play gets underway Monday at the All England Club.
In doubles play, scheduled to begin Wednesday, the second-seeded Dabrowski and Routliffe meet Mirra Andreeva and Anastasia Potapova in the first round, while Fernandez and partner Ena Shibahara of Japan play Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo.
In the men's draw, Shapovalov teams up with Kokkinakis to take on Skander Mansouri and Nicolas Mahut.
Immanuel Quickley will sign a five-year contract to stay with the Toronto Raptors, according to multiple reports.
Quickley intends to ink the Us$175-million contract when free agency officially opens on Sunday.
The 25-year-old point guard is considered an integral part of the Raptors' young core. He averaged 17 points, 4.9 assists, and 3.8 rebounds last season.
Melissa Humana-paredes and Brandie Wilkerson are joining forces this summer at the Paris Olympics.
Humana-paredes and Wilkerson, both from Toronto, were part of Canada's Olympic beach volleyball team announced Friday.
Heather Bansley of Waterdown, Ont., Toronto's Sophie Bukovec, Samuel Schachter of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Toronto's Daniel Dearing were also named to the squad.