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Japan’s Naomi Osaka roared into her first quarterfinal in 19 months with a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova in National Bank Open play on Sunday afternoon in Montreal.
The unseeded Osaka, who knocked off 14th-seeded Liudmila Samsonova of Russia and No. 22 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia simply to achieve the fourth spherical, wanted simply 49 minutes to shine off the unseeded Sevastova. Osaka’s quickest victory of her profession got here in 2016 in Brazil, the place she dispatched Ana Sofia Sanchez 6-1, 6-1.
‘I had a stable plan coming in right here,’ Osaka stated on Sunday, ‘and it occurred to work out very nicely.’
The former world No. 1 registered 5 aces to Sevastova’s none and transformed all 5 of her break factors to say her first quarterfinal berth in a WTA 1000-level or Grand Slam match since Doha in February 2024. She will face the winner of Sunday night time’s match between No. 5 Amanda Amisinova and No. 10 Elinia Svitolina of Ukraine.
Denmark’s Clara Tauson, the sixteenth seed, knocked out second-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland by a 7-6 (1), 6-3 depend to reverse the outcomes of their assembly final month at Wimbledon, when Swiatek gained 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals on her technique to the title.
Tauson, 22, saved seven of 9 break-point alternatives and transformed three of her 5 possibilities. Swiatek, who had gained 9 straight singles matches, had barely extra aces (8-6) and double faults (5-4).
Tauson will face sixth-seeded Madison Keys, who secured a spot within the quarterfinals with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Eleventh-seeded Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic. Keys wanted two hours, 20 minutes to prevail as she fought off two match factors with Muchova holding a 5-4 lead within the third set. Keys then broke Muchova at 5-5 with a fantastic passing shot.
‘I’m actually completely happy to get that win,’ Keys stated.
–Field Level Media