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St é phanie Dubois and Vasek Pospisil Lose Their Opening Matches
Main draw play got underway on Sunday at Roland-Garros and four Canadians were in action. Stéphanie Dubois (Laval, QC), Heidi El Tabakh (Toronto, ON), Vasek Pospisil (Vernon, BC) and Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, QC) took to the courts to try and book their place in the second round at the second Grand Slam event of the tennis season.
After winning three matches to qualify for the main draw, El Tabakh was drawn to play her compatriot Wozniak in the opening round. El Tabakh got off to a strong start, holding a 4-1 lead and had three set points serving at 5-4, 40-0, but Wozniak held her ground to win the match 7-5, 6-2.
The 24-year-old Canadian advances to the second round of the French Open for the fifth consecutive year. She will next take on the winner of the first round encounter between Alizé Cornet of France and the tournament’s no. 31 seed Jie Zheng.
Dubois and Pospisil Fall
Dubois was playing in the Roland-Garros main draw for the third time and was looking for her first win as she took on world no. 55 Shahar Peer, but came up short falling 6-2, 6-2. Meanwhile, Pospisil lost a four set match to France’s Édouard Roger-Vasselin 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) and Frank Dancevic (Niagara Falls, ON) will make their 2012 French Open debuts on Monday. Raonic, seeded no. 19, will meet Spaniard Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo and Dancevic will go up against Martin Klizan of Slovakia.
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