{"id":38535,"date":"2025-08-01T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38535\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:41:12","slug":"jessica-pegula-stunned-in-3-sets-in-montreal-osaka-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38535\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula stunned in 3 sets in Montreal; Osaka advances"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL — Two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula<\/a> was eliminated in the third round of the National Bank Open after a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 loss to Anastasija Sevastova<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sevastova, a 35-year-old from Latvia who was ranked 11th in 2018 but has fallen to No. 386, broke the third-seeded Pegula six times on 10 chances.<\/p>\n

The loss continued a poor run for the fourth-ranked Pegula, who won her opener in Montreal over Maria Sakkari<\/a> of Greece, but exited Wimbledon and the D.C. Open after one match in July.<\/p>\n

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Sevastova will take on Naomi Osaka<\/a>, who moved to the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-4 win over 22nd-seeded Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> of Latvia.<\/p>\n

Osaka, a former No. 1-ranked player from Japan, hit five aces and converted six of nine break point opportunities to win the match in 1 hour, 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

In other daytime results, 16th-seeded Clara Tauson<\/a> of Denmark rolled to a 6-3, 6-0 third-round victory over Ukraine’s Yuliia Starodubtseva<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek<\/a>, the tournament’s No. 2 seed, headlined the night session. She was scheduled to face Eva Lys<\/a> of Germany in third-round action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL — Two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula was eliminated in the third round of the National Bank Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-38535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}