De Omnium Banque Nationale Présenté Par Rogers blijft schokken leveren, met Iga Swiatek het nieuwste topzaad dat op zondag wordt verpakt, door Clara Tauson, terwijl Elina Svitolina Amanda Anisimova in de dag van Montré in Montré in Montré in de dag van de dag van de dag van de dag van de dag van de dag van de dag van de dag heeft gekomen. 8 of the WTA 1000.
It is certainly not like I played perfectly here. I still have the feeling that I have to switch a little to hard courts. And these competitions are also a bit to learn again. I have the feeling that I made a kind of the same mistakes that I made at the end of my hard court season in March. Iga Swiatek
Swiatek, the reigning Wimbledon champion and the No. 2 Seed, fell to Tauson, the 16th seed, 7-6 (1) 6-3, the Daan who used her creativity and firepower to frustrate the 6-way Grand SLAM champion, calmly lasting when she was broken in the second set when the Paal sealed in the Net.
“These are difficult circumstances here, with the wind, but I did my best to keep my head cool and to continue working,” said 22-year-old Tauson in her interview on the field. “Although I was broken in the second set, I felt confident and I am really happy with the victory.”
Tauson had lost all 3 of her earlier matches against the 24-year-old pole, but on this occasion the 6-foot Dane poured its loss of Swiateek in Wimbledon to set up a match with 6th placed Madison Keys, the Australian Open Champion.
“I think of course gained a victory against her after she had lost in Wimbledon in Wimbledon a few weeks ago, is clearly fun, because I didn’t feel great in that game, and I felt that I was playing tennis in Wimbledon,” Tauson said. “So I felt that if I could maintain that, I thought I had a chance.”
Tauson won her only tour title in New Zealand in January and defeated colleague Montréal quarter finalist, Naomi Osaka from Japan, in the final.
On Sunday, De Dane scored her first career victory at Swiatek and ended the winning series of the Wimbledon Champion over 9 with her 1 -hour victory 53 minutes.
Tauson got her revenge to reach her second career WTA 1000 quarter final, her first will be in Dubai this year, where she disturbed World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, and then she will be confronted with another Grand Slam champion in the last 8 in Canada in the form keys.
In a tight opening set, Tauson led almost everywhere, but after losing leads of 3-1 and 4-2, and failed to serve the set at 5-4, she got her spark back in the tiebreak, in which the only point she lost was outside of double mistakes.
In the second DANE ran again to an early lead and he regrunged Swiatek back and won 8 of the last 11 points after the pole got the set back on serve.
“I just felt like, after I won the first set, that I had to continue because I know she will never give up, and she is going to go outside, whatever happens,” Tauson said afterwards.
Tauson’s powerful ball has been striking for years, since she played in the juniors, and the power could certainly be seen against Swiatek, just like the finesse of the Dane and clambering as and when needed.
Iga Swiatek was surpassed by Clara Tauson’s creativity and firepower, who frustrated the 6-way Grand SLAM champion on Sunday in Montréal
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Swiatek must have thought that the meeting had become her advantage when she broke to stay in the first set, but she struggled in the breaker, which is probably no surprise to watch this season as her record in Tiebreak, which has fallen to 4-7.
“Certainly, I just made too many mistakes in the Tiebreaker,” Swiatek said later. “In the second set I felt that Clara went up with it, and I didn’t really solve a problem, and I certainly made too many mistakes of balls that I could play.”
Perhaps playing an opponent with a frightening forehand has encouraged the post to sometimes go more with her own, but Tauson had it better, and 25 casual mistakes came from the Forehand wing.
Swiatek later said there was no mental hang-over after Wimbledon, but that it was more about finding her hard game.
“It is certainly not as if I played perfectly here,” said Swiatek. “I still have the feeling that I have to switch a little to hard courts. And these competitions are also a bit, to learn again. I feel that, like, kind of the same mistakes I made at the end of my hard court season in March.”
The loss of Swiatek came one day after the world No. 2 Coco Gauff was stunned in straight sets by the Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko, and both they and the American will keep on their respective rankings after this week, while looking to sharpen their games before the start of the US Open later this month.
Tauson is now opposed to Madison Keys in the quarterfinals after the Big-service American has saved 2 match points to come forward with a heavily fought 4-6 6-3 7-5 victory over the Czech Karolina Muchova in the Windy Afternoon Session.
The DANE is the only player who defeated keys for a few months and the American in Auckland defeated in January before Keys went on a 16-match winning streak that included the Australian open title.
Tauson expressed her joy in seeing Keys’s triumph and noted that after many her perseverance thought that the opportunities of the American to win a major were over when she approached 30.
A few weeks after Melbourne, Tauson made the WTA 1000 -final in Dubai, where she divided the world no. 1 Aryna Sabalenka on the hard courts.
“I think I get more confidence in this, a kind of level and the feeling that I hear more here,” she said. “I think that really helped me today at the important moments.”
Madison Keys saved 2 match points before beating Karolina Muchova in a thriller of a last 16 meeting that lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes
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Keys booked her place in the quarterfinals of Montreal after an exciting 2 hours of 20 minutes of battle with Muchova.
“I think you ideally win competitions that are not match point down,” smiled keys afterwards. “But if you can harden it and find out, I think it just gives you a little confidence.
“I feel that I have had many matches this season, where I may not have played my best tennis all the time, but at important moments I was able to find it out.”
The most famous match point in Keys’s career had to have been against Swiatek in the semi-finals of Australian Open in January, when she then won her long-awaited first Grand Slam title by expeling Sabalenka in another 3-set nail biter.
After splitting the first two sets, Keys’ Contest came down to Muchova on an exciting decision -maker who disposed of the power of the Australian Open Champion against Muchova’s creativity.
The latter was completely visible when the Czech pulled a mid-rally through the back hot shot halfway through the set, but keys, ready and waiting, there was to put the ball away.
She also got on the board to get through a 4-cause game to keep 5-5, the 30-year-old went for it when she cracked at the 1st match point at 4-5 in the third set, an inside-out Forehand very close to the line, and later in the meeting she forced a forehand error of the Tzech.
If Muchova could do little about the 1st match point, the 2023 French open finalist Rue will rue what happened on the second, when her second serve return sailed wide.
Momentum now with her, Keys 6-5 broke with a backhand along the line that sent the Montréal-Mergerte up when she took her 9th victory of a set this season, the same count as combined in her 4 previous seasons.
Keys go to Tauson, while Muchova’s back-back from a left wrist injury seems to be to collect the pace.
“Clara is a fantastic ball bow tie,” Keys said about the quarter-final game. “She has a big serve. She has a lot of strength on both sides. She covers the court pretty well on top of everything, so I feel that she is one of those competitions where you have to temper a little and not go too fast for things.”
Naomi Osaka dropped only 1 match to Anastasija Sevastova and won in 49 minutes to set up a quarter -final meeting with Elina Svitolina at the Canadian Open
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Former world no. 1 Naomi Osaka followed and showed flashes of her earlier dominance to reach the quarterfinals in just 49 minutes, steam rolling Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova, 6-1 6-1 6-0, in the 2nd fastest victory of her career in Ana Sánchez in the 1tezezozezezezezezezezezezezozezezezezezezezezezezozezez in the Sánchez’s victory Florianopolis in 2016.
Osaka and Sevastova are two of the mothers on tours and both had to gather to reach the 4th round, with the Japanese in more danger, making a few match points on Liudmila Samsonova in the 2nd round under new coach Tomasz Wiktorowski are rejected.
Sevastova followed double defending champion Jessica Pegula with a set and break on Friday, and before that was a break in the third set against Ajla Tomljanovic in the 1st round.
The victory marks the first time that the Japanese went on in 19 months to the last 8 of a WTA 1000 event, which was last in Doha in 2024.
“I had a solid plan here, and it happened to be very good,” Osaka said in her interview on the field.
Former Canadian champion and 10th Seed Elina Svitolina stroked Amanda Anisimova, the 5th Seed, of the quarterfinals in Montreal in Quebec
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The 4-way Grand Slam champion is confronted with Ukrainian Elina Svitolina for a place in the semi-final after the 10th seed made Amanda Anisimova from Streek, the finalist of Wimbledon who is sown here at number 5, 6-4 6-1, in one hour and 26 minutes.
In their first meeting in 4 years, the game was even in the early stages, until Svitolina withdrew after Anisimova de Serve could not break from 0-40 on 3-3 in the first set and later lost 8 of the last 9 games.
“It was a great achievement of mine tonight,” said Svitolina. “I am happy that I could play well and go well because Amanda is such a big striker. I had to be physically strong. Very happy that I could do well today.”
Svitolina, a winner in Toronto in 2017, has only dropped 14 games in its first 3 games, which extend a series of success for the Ukrainian at the tournament, only Victoria Azarenka among active players who have reached more quarterfinals in Canada than the Ukrainian.
Osaka has won 4 out of 7 WTA Main-Draw meetings against Svitolina.
On Monday evening in the quarterfinals, 18-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko will be confronted with Jessica Bouzas Maneiro from Spain, and Marta Kostyuk in Ukraine, the 24th seed, will meet the 9th placed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.
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