Canada’s Gabriel Diallo returns to Brazil’s Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida in the course of the second set of a Davis Cup Qualifiers tennis singles match in Vancouver final month.ETHAN CAIRNS/The Canadian Press
Canada’s Gabriel Diallo picked up his first win in practically two months on the ATP Tour, defeating Italy’s Mattia Bellucci in the first round of the Indian Wells tennis match.
The 24-year-old from Montreal, ranked No. 38 in the world, beat the 94th-ranked Bellucci 7-6 (5), 6-4 in males’s singles motion Wednesday.
Diallo, who had been eradicated in the first round of his earlier 4 ATP tournaments, fired 10 aces and dedicated only one double fault.
Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., later beat Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 to advance to the second round.
Next up, Diallo will face Seventeenth-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia, whereas Shapovalov meets Twenty ninth-seeded Tomas Martin Etcheverry of Argentina.
Elsewhere in the boys’s match, Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., fell 6-3, 6-4 to France’s Gaël Monfils.
In the ladies’s draw, Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., misplaced 6-7 (6), 6-0, 6-1 to Uzbekistan’s Kamilla Rakhimova.
Andreescu, who gained the match in 2019, fired 12 aces however dedicated 5 double faults and gained simply 57 per cent of factors on her first serve.
Marina Stakusic of Mississauga, Ont., additionally exited the match, falling 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 towards Austria’s Anastasia Potapova.
