(New York) Laval’s Leylah Annie Fernandez and her USA playing partner Taylor Townsend reached the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles draw at the US Open with a 7-6 (3), 6-1 victory. Sunday, against the Czech Karolina Pliskova and the Croatian Donna Vekic.

Fernandez and Townsend, sixth seeds, will face in the next round the winners of the duel opposing the Ottawan Gabriela Dabrowski and the New Zealander Erin Routliffe, our 16, to the Czechs Barbora Strycova and Marketa Vondrousova.

On Sunday, Fernandez and Townsend needed 61 minutes to win the first set and then only 27 minutes to prevail in the second.

They hammered 30 winners against 15 unforced errors, while Pliskova and Vekic committed 31 unforced errors and managed only 19 winners.

Earlier this year, Fernandez and Townsend reached the final of the French Open and the Miami Open. They beat Dabrowski and Brazilian Luisa Stefani in the third round during their run at the French Open.

Routliffe and Dabrowski are in their fourth tournament together. They began their association in August at the National Bank Open in Montreal.

Dabrowski, 31, reached the women’s doubles semifinals at the 2021 U.S. Open with Stefani. The latter had to give up during this match due to a knee injury.