{"id":48686,"date":"2025-08-06T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48686\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:45:08","slug":"naomi-osaka-outclasses-elina-svitolina-to-reach-canadian-open-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48686\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka outclasses Elina Svitolina to reach Canadian Open semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naomi Osaka<\/a> reached her first WTA<\/a> 1000 semi-final in more than three years with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over 10th seeds Elina Svitolina<\/a> at the Canadian Open in Montreal on Tuesday (5 August).<\/p>\n

The last time Osaka made it this deep in a 1000 tournament was at the Miami Open in April 2022 – before she had her daughter in July 2023.<\/p>\n

Osaka – who has only dropped one set at this event – appears to be picking it up at the right time ahead of the US Open later this month, which she has won twice in 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m going to be seeded in the US Open now because I won my match,\u201d Osaka said in her on-court interview. \u201cThat was a really big goal for me and I\u2019m just really excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if anyone tunes in, my outfit is super fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Osaka had been near even against the 12th-ranked Svitolina with a 4-3 record in head-to-heads but the four-time Grand Slam winner was in the driver\u2019s seat throughout the 68-minute affair.<\/p>\n

Up 5-1 in the opening set, Svitolina managed to break Osaka for the first and only time of the match which only lit a fire under her Japanese opponent.<\/p>\n

Osaka broke right back in the next game to take the set and never looked in the rearview mirror the rest of the way to move on.<\/p>\n

She will face the 16th seed from Denmark, Clara Tauson<\/a>, in the next round. Tauson bounced sixth-seeded Australian Open champion Madison Keys<\/a> 6-1, 6-4 in her quarter-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka reached her first WTA 1000 semi-final in more than three years with a 6-2, 6-2 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-48686","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\/48686","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=48686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}