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MIAMI — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and American spouse Taylor Townsend complicated to the Miami Open ladies’s doubles semifinals Tuesday with a 2-6, 7-6 (4), 10-8 win over Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine.

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Fernandez and Townsend have been correct on 88.9 in keeping with cent of first serves within the ultimate set and gained 66.7 in keeping with cent of general carrier issues.

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Ostapenko and Kichenok, seeded 3rd within the ladies’s doubles draw, gained the primary set after changing two in their 3 breakpoint alternatives.

Fernandez, of Laval, Que., and Townsend then gained a second-set tiebreak to power a decisive 3rd set.

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The North American citizens will subsequent face the winners of a quarterfinal between Poland’s Magda Linette and American Bernarda Pera and Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu and Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina.

Fernandez misplaced in the second one spherical of the singles facet of the event to No. 9 Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.