{"id":852981,"date":"2026-08-10T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852981\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:08:12","slug":"osaka-gauff-race-into-canadian-open-quarters-as-rybakina-survives-scare-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852981\/","title":{"rendered":"Osaka, Gauff race into Canadian Open quarters as Rybakina survives scare | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">World number 2 Elena Rybakina rallies to beat unseeded Liudmila Samsonova, while stars Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff also progress.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>World number two Elena Rybakina survived a huge scare to battle into the Canadian Open quarterfinals on Sunday in Toronto, while fourth-ranked Coco Gauff cruised through.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s Rybakina recovered from 0-3 and two breaks down in the final set to beat Liudmila Samsonova 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 before American Gauff swept aside Russian teenage qualifier Alina Korneeva, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina will face four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, who eliminated home hero Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff reached the last eight in Canada for the first time since 2023 and next meets 14th-ranked Swiss Belinda Bencic, who won 6-4, 6-0 in 73 minutes over 20th-ranked Alexandra Eala, a Filipina who won her first WTA title last Monday in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main focus today was \u2018let me try and close it out\u2019,\u201d said Gauff, who has not dropped a set in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably not the way I should be thinking, but it worked today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of how the last three matches have gone and just knowing if I have to go the distance I\u2019m ready, but obviously would prefer to cut it short if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4842384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-09T205412Z_1205313195_MT1USATODAY29548901_RTRMADP_3_TENNIS-NATIONAL-BANK-OPEN-1786352739.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Gauff plays a shot against Alina Korneeva during their fourth round match at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto, on August 9, 2026\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Coco Gauff plays a shot against Alina Korneeva during their fourth round match at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto, on August 9, 2026 [Dan Hamilton\/Imagn Images via Reuters]<\/p>\n<p>Osaka broke in the seventh game of each set to advance in 82 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was all pretty good for me,\u201d the 13th-ranked Osaka said. \u201cShe has a great attitude. She\u2019s consistent and she will fight. She\u2019s kind of like a bulldog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese star, who has never faced Rybakina, said sound groundstrokes were key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I feel comfortable or at least confident in myself knowing I can run things down, I loosen up a lot,\u201d Osaka said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was catching my service toss a couple times. Hopefully in the next match I don\u2019t do that as often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to be confident in myself, execute what I can and at the end of the day just try my best and whatever happens happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bencic connected on 64.4 percent of her first serves and won 72.4 percent of those points in a 73-minute victory, her 10th win in a row over left-handed opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to play against lefties so I\u2019m surprised by this statistic,\u201d Bencic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery tricky. Maybe helped me [that] I played a lefty the round before against Taylor Townsend. I got used to the serve a little bit. I wish I was a lefty too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number 2 Elena Rybakina rallies to beat unseeded Liudmila Samsonova, while stars Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,44,457,82,593,1690],"class_list":["post-852981","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\/852981","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=852981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}