Canada's Fernandez and partner Townsend advance to quarters at US Open

Canada's Leylah Fernandez and American partner Taylor Townsend have advanced in the women's doubles tournament at the U.S. Open in New York.

Fernandez and Townsend beat Karolina Pliskova of Czechia and Croatia's Donna Vekic 7-6 (3), 6-1 in the Round of 16 on Sunday.

Ottawa's Gabrielle Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe, who used to represent Canada, will face Czechia's Barbora Strycova and Marketa Vondrousova on Monday.

Although Pliskova and Vekic had four aces to Fernandez and Townsend's two, they also double faulted seven times to the Canadian-American pairs' four.

Fernandez and Townsend won 79 per cent of their first serves and 62 per cent of their second serves, taking three of eight break points.

Karolina Muchova reached the women's singles quarterfinals of the U.S. Open on Sunday in New York with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 victory over Wang Xinyu.

For the 10th-seeded Czech, a 2021 Australian Open semifinalist who has reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon twice, it marked her deepest run ever at Flushing Meadows.

She did it after losing control of the second set to her Chinese opponent and taking over in the third, with a strong all-court attack that included 32 winners.

"I came back to my game, to slice it more and to change the rhythm — that was the key," Muchova told the Louis Armstrong Stadium crowd in her post-match interview.

All smiles in the end