New Gemint Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek and 2-way title defender Jessica Pegula removed from the stamp at the WTA 1000 Omnium Banquet National Présenté Par Rogers in Montréal in Montréal in Montréal on Wednesday, because Naomi Osaka returns with a Gutssy 2nd-R-Red-Red-Red-R-Red-Red-Red-Red-Red-Red-Red-Red-Red-R-Red-R-Red-Red-Red-R-Red-Red-Red-R-Red-R-Red-Red-Red-Red mans.
I think it is so special to play my last match here in Montreal, at this court for you. I remember that I was a small child, that I was in these stands, hoping and dreaming that one day I would play at this court. I grew up playing on these courts, and courts around Montreal, and in the neighborhood here, so it feels like such a complete circle moment to complete my career here. Eugenie Bouchard
Swiatek, the no. 2 seed, beyond the Chinese qualifying game Guo Hanyu, 6-3 6-1, in her first match since her crushing victory over Amanda Anisimova in the Wimbledon final, while Pegula, 3, 5 setpoints in her opener on the way to a 7-5 6-4 Win.
It was much more difficult for the 4-way Grand Slam champion of Japan, Osaka, who saved 2 match points in a 4-6 7-6 (6) 6-3 Come-back victory on Liudmila Samsonova, the 13th seed, while it fell for Belinda Bencic, the 17th seed-6-6-6, 6-6 6-6 6-6 6-6 6-6 defeat, but not for the Canadian to continue with an early break. In the third set.
Swiatek, the 6-time Grand SLAM champion, started her campaign in Montréal with a dominant victory to continue where she had gone in Wimbledon, who drove Guo in 72 minutes past the 259th Guo and the 27-year-old Chinese qualifying 6 times, including 4 times in the second set.
By racing in a 4-0 lead in the opening set, Swiatek extended her series of consecutive games to a stunning 24.
In her previous 2 games, Swiatek Amanda Anisimova crushed without losing a match in the Wimbledon final, and won the last 8 games of her semi-final against Belinda Bencic.
After he had been swept to the Wimbledon title, the 24-year-old pole admitted that the breakthrough was so far-fetched that she had never dreamed that it happened.
“Because it seemed so far away,” Swiatek admitted. “I feel that I am already an experienced player, who previously won Slams, but I never expected to win it.”
Guo, a 27-year-old from China, is a formidable double player, with 2 titles this year, in Bad Homburg and Adelaide, with partner Alexandra Panova, and started the year at no. 538 in the ranking list, but succeeded in winning one qualifying competition in Montreal.
Her 6-3 6-3 victory over Yulia Putintseva from Kazakhstan in round 1 was Guo’s first career main-draw victory at the WTA level, and she was predictable not for Swiatek.
Six times Grand SLAM champion Iga Swiatek looks at a second US Open title and hopes for a deep run in Canada
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“I prepared for this competition as I would do for any other,” Swiatek said in her interview on the entire country. “I saw that my opponent played great in the first round, so I had some information. However, I preferred to concentrate on myself, on the re -adapted to the hard court.
“Yes, it was great. I had time to celebrate a little after Wimbledon, and came to practice again in Warsaw, but of course in different circumstances.
“So I am glad that I had the chance to come here earlier. I feel that I have made a little progress every day, so that is the best thing you can have at the start of a swing, and then you just have to keep it up.”
The victory of Swiatek was her 115th WTA 1000 victory in its 142nd competition at this level, with only 23 times Grand Slam winner Serena Williams reached 115 but in fewer competitions, 130, since the introduction of the format in 2009.
De Paal has now won 63 consecutive opening round WTA Tour Level matches, making it the first player to reach this since Monica Seles, who won 64 in a row between 1990 and 1996.
When Guo broke her serve in the 5th game, Swiateek lost her first game in 20 days, which naturally included a holiday by the sea.
In her 3rd round competition here, Swiatek will be confronted with World No. 69 Eva Lys from Germany, while she is looking for her first title for the Canadian Open, after she achieved her best earlier result in 2023 when she reached the semi-final.
The 24-year-old, who did not play last year’s edition in Toronto, who took place just after the Olympic Games in Paris, has a 7-3 career record at the event.
Lys, the German No. 3 that is arranged on 69, the No. 27 Seed, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia, 6-3 6-1, in 83 minutes, scored her first top 30 victory of 2025, and only since the beating of Sorana Cirstea of Romania in Cluj-Napoca in 2023.
Defending champion Jessica Pegula hopes for a Canadian Open Three-Peak and started her campaign with a victory over Maria Sakkari on Wednesday
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Pegula, the 3rd seed, took off a daring first-class escape on Wednesday to maintain her status as the ruling queen of Canada, when she dismissed 5 set points on 5-4 in the opening set and achieved a 7-5 6-4 victory over Maria from Greece.
The defending champion has now won 11 consecutive games in Canada, which extends her line over two cities, after she caught the WTA 1000 title in Montreal in 2023, and then successfully defended it last year when the women’s event shifted to Toronto.
Pegula and Sakkari know each other’s competitions well, and this was the 12th meeting between the two, both of whom have a peak at World No 3, and this time it was the American who prevailed in an hour and 32 minutes to take a 7-5 lead in their head-to-head series.
On Wednesday, Pegula led 3-1 in the first set before Sakkari stormed back, at a point to win 12 points in a row on the way to her 5 set points at 5-4, but the American fought 5-5 in Hold.
Then the service from Pegula returns and won the following 4 games to be managed by a set and a break, and went all the way to 4-1 in the second before Sakkari made an increase to reach 4-3.
At this point, however, Pegula implemented her drop-shot perfectly and held it for most of the check, although she had to save a last breaking point in the last game before gaining a new victory in Canada.
Pegula converted all 5 of her breaking points and became the first woman to win 11 straight matches at this event, because Serena Williams ran 14 straight ahead between 2011 and 2014.
She is then confronted with veteran Anastasija Sevastova after the Latvian former world no. 11 fought her way along Magda Linette, the Polish 24th Seed, 6-3 4-6 6-4.
Sevastova defeated Pegula in Indian Wells who qualified in 2016, but the American took a Clay-Court victory on the Latvian on Charleston 2019.
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Osaka, who now works with Tomasz Wiktorowski after she announced on Monday that she had split with coach Patrick Mouratoglou, gave early breaks in each of the first two sets against Liudmilla Samsonova, the no. 13 Seed from Russia.
When Samsonova, Wimbledon’s quarter finalist, served on 5-4 in the second set for the game, with 40-15, she staggered, shot a forehand long at her first match point and produced a lack-Lustre Drop-Shot effort that gave an opening and the Japanese pounds on her second.
Samsonova’s double mistakes on breakpoint left Osaka the set at a level of the set, and after he returned from 2/5 in the Tiebreak to force a third set, the Japanese former world Nr.
Osaka was 2-2 in her head-to-head with Samsonova who came in on Wednesday, and after she had lost their most recent meeting on grass in the Berlin tennis open, she rubbed that loss in a dramatic way and won in 2 hours and 37 minutes at the center of the court.
“She absolutely came out very hard and for me I was certainly overwhelmed and I didn’t know if I should hit winners,” Osaka said. “After a while I just tried to keep the ball in court.”
Next to Osaka will be the no. 22 seed Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia, who found her way past Mexico’s Renata Zarazua, 6-3 4-6 6-2.
Belinda Bencic brought the professional career of Eugénie Bouchard on Wednesday evening to an end
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On Wednesday evening, spectators were on the move and they tried Eugenie Bouchard on a different victory over the heels of her 1st round triumph on Monday, which was her first WTA victory since 2023.
Belinda Bencic, the Swiss 17th seed,, however, won 5 of the last 6 games to overcome the 31-year-old Canadian, who had previously announced in July that she would retire after a final performance in her home tournament.
“I think it is so special to play my last game here in Montréal, at this court for you,” said a tear bouchard while honored on the field after the game. “I remember that I was a small child that I was in these stands, hoping and dreaming that I would ever play at this court.
“I grew up playing on these courts, and courts around Montreal, and here in the neighborhood, so it feels like such a complete circle moment to end my career here.”
Bouchard, who was as high as 5th in the world ranking, shot at the fame in 2014 when she reached the Wimbledon final and made semi-final runs with the Australian and French OpenS.
Her career, however, was derailed by injuries, including a concussion in a dressing room slip at the US Open 2015, and a shoulder injury that required surgery in 2021.
Bencic continues to meet Karolina Muchova, the 11th seed from the Czech Republic, which came from 2-5 in the first set, which saved 2 set points, to beat the Croatian qualifying match Antonia Ruzic.
Elsewhere, the Australian open open champion Madison Keys, the 6th seed, her campaign with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Laura Siegemund, a loss of 3rd round to the German in Wimbledon, and setting up a 3rd round meeting with her colleague-American, the Rebnally no 31 seed.
No 10 Seed elina svitolina, the 2017 champion from Ukraine, held a complaint from 5-1 to 5-5 in the first set by the Russian qualification Kamilla Rakhimova to move forward, 7-5 6-2, and meets another Russian, Anna Kalinskaya, who against the past Elise Mersens, the 19th of the 19th of the 19th of the 19th (4) 6-2.
Finally, Clara Tauson, the 16th seed from Denmark, was an easy 6-1 6-2 winner of Lucia Bronzetti and takes on it and takes on Yuliia Starodubtseva, who was not a 6-1 6-2 winner past no 21 seed Magdalena Fech, a loss from last week in Washton.
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