{"id":851717,"date":"2026-08-09T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:56:25","slug":"world-number-one-sabalenka-upset-by-alexandrova-at-canadian-open-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851717\/","title":{"rendered":"World number one Sabalenka upset by Alexandrova at Canadian Open | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Ekaterina Alexandrov took down four-time Grand Slam singles champion Aryna Sabalenka in a three-set marathon in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>World number one \u200cAryna Sabalenka suffered a setback in her US Open \u2060build-up after \u2060she was beaten 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 by Russia\u2019s Ekaterina Alexandrova in the fourth round of the Canadian Open \u2060in Toronto on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 16th-seeded Alexandrova fought a hard battle, lasting nearly two and a half hours, to secure her quarterfinal berth.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka, a four-time Grand Slam champion and reigning US Open winner, recovered from a set down to force a decider but was unable to halt Alexandrova\u2019s aggressive shot-making in the final set.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian \u200cbroke early in the opening set before Alexandrova rallied to force a tiebreak, which the Russian won to move ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka responded by seizing control of the second set with a break for a 4-3 lead before serving out to level the match.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova held her nerve in the decider as \u2060Sabalenka\u2019s error count rose. Serving to stay \u2060in the match at 4-5, the top seed saved two match points, but a double fault on the third handed victory to the Russian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just tried to \u2060play every single point as if it was the last one because with her, you \u2060don\u2019t [get] a lot of chances during \u2060the match,\u201d Alexandrova said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I was trying not to think about the score or anything. Just hit the ball, and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super \u200chappy that I could win because after the second set, I thought (the chance) was already past me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova will face Ukraine\u2019s Elina \u200cSvitolina, \u200cwho defeated American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-4 for a place in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4839710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-09T020335Z_482020332_MT1USATODAY29546186_RTRMADP_3_TENNIS-NATIONAL-BANK-OPEN-1786258442.jpg\" alt=\"Aryna Sabalenka congratulates Ekaterina Alexandrova, right, on her fourth-round victory at the Canadian Open, August 8, 2026\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Aryna Sabalenka congratulates Ekaterina Alexandrova, right, on her fourth-round victory at the Canadian Open, August 8, 2026 [John E Sokolowski\/Imagn Images via Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ekaterina Alexandrov took down four-time Grand Slam singles champion Aryna Sabalenka in a three-set marathon in Toronto. Published&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,44,457,82,593,1690],"class_list":["post-851717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851717","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=851717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}