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Canada’s Bianca Andreescu started her grass-court season with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Dutch qualifier Eva Vedder on Tuesday in first-round action at the Libema Open in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

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· Posted: Jun 11, 2024 1:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 11

Bianca Andreescu, pictured at the recent French Open, put away a three-set win over Dutch qualifier Eva Vedder on Tuesday in the Netherlands with a solid third set in which she won 68 per cent of service points and didn’t face break point. (Thibault Camus/Associated Press)Canada’s Bianca Andreescu started her grass-court season with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Dutch qualifier Eva Vedder on Tuesday in first-round action at the Libema Open in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Andreescu won on her second match point when Vedder returned her serve wide.

The 23-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., put the match away with a solid third set in which she won 68 per cent of service points and didn’t face break point.

She had 18 break-point chances against Vedder, converting four of them.

Andreescu will next face sixth seed Yue Yuan of China in the second round of the WTA 250 event.

WATCH | Andreescu outlasts Dutch qualifier in Round 1 of Libema Open:

Bianca Andreescu fights back to win at the Libema OpenBianca Andreescu fought back to win a three set match (4-6, 6-3, 6-2) against young Dutch tennis player Eva Vedder at the Libema Open round of 32 in the Netherlands.

Also in the Netherlands, Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., downed eighth seed Jordan Thompson of Australia 6-3, 6-4.

In other grass-court results Tuesday, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino defeated Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic 6-1, 6-4 in the opening round of the Nottingham Open in England.

Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., defeated French qualifier Matteo Martineau 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the opening round of the Stuttgart Open in Germany.

WATCH | Marino earns straight-sets victory over Switzerland’s Golubic:

Rebecca Marino earns 1st WTA main draw victory of the year at Rothesay OpenVancouver’s Rebecca Marino won her first main draw match of the year against Switzerland’s Victorija Golubic, 6-1, 6-4 at the Rothesay Open, in Nottingham, Great Britain.