Australian Open champion Madison Keys saved two match points on the way to a three-set victory over Karolina Muchova to reach the WTA Canadian Open quarter-finals on Sunday as former world number one Naomi Osaka roared into the last eight.<\/p>\n
Keys<\/a> saved two match points on her serve in the 10th game of the third set, stripping a forehand on the first and escaping the second as\u00a0Czech Muchova<\/a> misfired on a service return.<\/p>\n The American emerged with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory – her third of the season that included saving a match point.<\/p>\n “I’m really happy to get that win,” Keys told the crowd in Montreal.<\/p>\n “After losing the first set and even being match point down, being able to figure it out — it’s always a great day.”<\/p>\n Osaka<\/a> did not need heroics as she blew past Anastasija Sevastova<\/a> 6-1, 6-0 in just 49 minutes.<\/p>\n The four-time Grand Slam champion from Japan notched the second-quickest tour-level win of her career, after a 42-minute 6-1, 6-1 rout of Ana Sofia Sanchez<\/a> in the first round at Florianopolis back in 2016.<\/p>\n The dominant victory also marked the first time Osaka has conceded just one game or fewer in a completed match since a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Danielle Collins<\/a> at Beijing in 2018.<\/p>\n Perhaps more importantly, it’s the first time Osaka has reached the last eight of a 1000-level event or Grand Slam since Doha in 2024.<\/p>\n Osaka did not play in 2023 after the birth of her daughter and has struggled for consistency since returning to the game a year ago.\u00a0She fell in the first round of the French Open and the third round at Wimbledon this year and arrived in Montreal ranked 49th in the world.<\/p>\n But she has shaken things up this week, announcing she was parting with coach Patrick Mouratoglou after less than a year and immediately getting to work with Poland’s Tomasz Wiktorowski – former coach of\u00a0Iga Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I had a solid plan coming in here and it just happened to work out pretty well,” Osaka said of her dominant performance against Sevastova, a former world number 11 also on the comeback trail after maternity leave who had beaten two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula<\/a> in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Open champion Madison Keys saved two match points on the way to a three-set victory over Karolina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-45155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}