Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime and Alexandra Eala of the Philippines fell 4-1, 4-1 to Gael Monfils of France and Elina Svitolina of Ukraine on Tuesday in first-round mixed doubles motion at the U.S. Open.
Auger-Aliassime and Eala had three aces and 9 winners, but in addition hit into eight unforced errors.
The husband-and-wife duo of Monfils and Svitolina gained all seven of their first-serve factors and have been 5-of-9 on their second serve.
Monfils and Svitolina will subsequent face both Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus or Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova and Britain’s Henry Patten in the following spherical of the mixed doubles match, which has attracted high-profile expertise with a file US$2.88-million purse together with $1 million for the winners.
Auger-Aliassime was the final Canadian in the match after Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Finnish associate Harri Heliovaara have been defeated in qualifying and Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., had her American associate Frances Tiafoe withdraw resulting from a toe damage.
In first-round singles qualifying, Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., was set to face Nicolas Mejia of Colombia and Katherine Sebov of Toronto was scheduled to satisfy Russia’s Julia Avdeeva.