Wimbledon finalist Amanda Anisimova got better from Emma Raducanu in the 3rd round of the Omnium Banque National Présenté Par Rogers in Montreal on Friday evening, 6-2 6-1, in just 64 minutes and finished British no. 1’s run in the WTA in Canada.
It is always fun here. It was a solid match, so I am happy that I have a chance to play another here. The game was different from how we played each other the last time. I just concentrated on myself and knew what my plan was, but Eva played a number of great Down-the-Lines and was sometimes really able to use her wrist and play some fast balls. It wasn’t easy, but I’m glad I just did my job. Iga świątek
Raducanu had won both earlier meetings, but was surpassed by the American World No 7 on this occasion, which came from 40-15 to break the Brit’s Serve in the 2nd match of the match.
The 22-year-old from Bromley broke back immediately, but was unable to collect another breaking point in the game, because Anisimova broke again for a 3-1 and then added a third to complete the set.
The 5th Seed maintained her dominance in the second, in which Raducanu only collected 8 points on her own serve, but the Bagel avoided after losing the first 5 games.
The 23-year-old American had the game to book her place in the last 16, where she will be confronted with the 10th seed, Elina Svitolina from Ukraine, who stormed past the Russian Anna Kalinskaya, 6-1 6-1, also on Friday evening.
Anisimova handed her sparkling form from the grass season to the North American summer Hard-Court Swing with her emphatic Straight-Sets victory on Raducanu, now well reduced from her double bagel defeat in the hands of Iga Swiatek in the champion final a month ago.
Starting with an early break to go up 2-0, the American quickly built a 5-2 lead, before he crocheted another set, and was then even more dominant with the help of her powerful grounda’s to win 5 games on the trot in the second before Raducanu was able to hold and get on the scoreboard.
After having only dropped 3 games on the US Open Champion 2021, the statistics showed at the end of the game why Anisimova was under control and 29 winners made her 25 casual mistakes, while Raducanu was able to hit only 5 winners opposite her 22 miscues.
Emma Raducanu was surpassed by Amanda Anisimova on this occasion, even though they won their last 2 meetings this year
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Anisimova has now won 14 of her last 17 games on the Tour since the start of the Grass Court season, the most by every player in that period.
The victory marked its 50th career competition at WTA 1000 level and became the 9th American who achieved the performance since the introduction of the format in 2009.
This is also the 29th victory of Anisimova in a row during the Tour when she won the first set, with her last loss after she had returned the opener to Auckland in January.
For Raducanu, she belongs to a range of players who chases a Top 32 position for the US Open, while she is looking for a placed position at the last Grand Slam of the year.
After he had skipped the Canadian Open in 2024, Raducanu had no points this year to defend in Montréal, giving her a good chance to stimulate her hope, and she earned 10 before entering the draw, before she achieved 65 points for the tournament after he went to round 3.
However, positioning not only depends on the earned points, but also on what other players do around Raducanu in the offers, where she is currently number 37 in the live rankings.
Former World no. 1 Iga Swiateek made light work on Friday of Eva Lys and has so far dropped only 8 games in Montréal
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Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek needed a little more than an hour to complete a 6-2 6-2 victory over Eva Lys of Germany. Swiatek, and then confronted with Clara Tauson van Denmark, who defeated Yuliia Starodubtseva from Ukraine, 6-3 6-0.
“It’s always fun here. It was a solid game, so I’m glad I have a chance to play here,” Swiatek said after her victory. “The game was different from how we played each other the last time. I just concentrated on myself and knew what my plan was, but Eva played a number of great Down-the-Lines and was sometimes really able to use her wrist and play some fast balls. It was not easy, but I am happy that I just did my job,” “
Swiatek has only dropped 8 games in 4 sets in Canada after winning her 6th Grand Slam Singles title Almost a month ago in the All England Club, and was the best seed with the easiest path through the draw at the WTA 1000 event so far.
Swiatek is 3-0 against Tauson of all time, and in their 2 games at WTA Tour level the post was won the tournament.
Former world no. 11 Anastasija Sevastova disturbed Jessica Pegula’s hope to defend her title at the Canadian Open for the second time on day 6 of the WTA 1000 National Bank Open in Iga Stadium
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The bid of Jessica Pegula for a 3rd straight Canadian title, however, was kept by World No. 386 Anastasija Sevastova, a Latvian former World Nr.
The Japanese former world no. 1 was a 6-2 6-4 winner about Jelena Ostapenko, the no. 22 Seed from Latvia, and has now won 3 games here in Montréal, also in the 2nd round when she kept 2 match points against Liudmila Samsonova.
Sevastova reached the quarterfinals in 2018 and has reached its first last 16 performance on a WTA 1000 since Madrid 2021.
Osaka and Sevastova played each other 5 times, with the Japanese who led their head-to-head 3-2, but they last met at the Australian Open in 2019 when Osaka won in 3 sets and won the title for the first time.
In the meantime, the 6th Seed Madison provided business and came back to defeat fellow American Caty McNally, 2-6 6-3 6-3, in 2 hours and 15 minutes, and now has a 9-3 in Canada.
Keys converted her 3rd match point with a huge forehand pass and broke McNally for the 4th time.
“Today I pushed back well after the first set,” Keys said afterwards. “Let go of the first set and go on. Happy. I was able to do that.”
Keys takes the Czech 11th seed Karolina Muchova, who fought past Belinda Bencic, the no. 17 Seed from Switzerland, 6-7 (2) 6-2 6-3, 43 minutes in 2 hours.
Madison Keys used her powerful forehand to fight back from a set of Down and to beat Caty McNally
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