{"id":853995,"date":"2026-08-11T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853995\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:24:23","slug":"swiatek-cruises-into-nbo-semi-finals-with-straight-sets-win-over-shnaider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853995\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek cruises into NBO semi-finals with straight sets win over Shnaider"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Poland’s Iga Swiatek hits a return to Diana Shnaider of Russia at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris YoungChris Young\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Iga Swiatek is into the National Bank Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n

The No. 7 seed from Poland topped No. 15 Diana Shnaider of Russia 6-2, 6-1 on Monday night at Sobeys Stadium.<\/p>\n

No. 9 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine faced No. 16 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia in the late women\u2019s quarter-final, with the winner taking on Swiatek in the semis.<\/p>\n

Alexandrova upset world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in the fourth round over the weekend to advance at the US$7.4-million tournament.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in doubles, top seeds Katerina Siniakova of Czechia and China\u2019s Shuai Zhang cruised past Australia\u2019s Storm Hunter and Desirae Krawczyk of the United States 6-4, 6-3 in the quarters.<\/p>\n

Swiatek went up an early break in the first set against Shnaider and led 4-2 in front of a crowd peppered with Polish flags, jerseys, hats, scarves and signs of support.<\/p>\n

Chants of \u201cIga! Iga!\u201d started as fans could sense the momentum, and she delivered with another break at 5-2 before serving out.<\/p>\n

Swiatek broke Shnaider again to grab a 2-1 advantage in the second set and did the same for a 4-1 edge when her opponent flubbed a return.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old finished things off when Shnaider sent her return into the net to clinch her semi-final spot in just 64 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Diana Shnaider serves against Iga Swiatek during quarter-final play at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto on Monday.Dan Hamilton\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Swiatek never faced a break-point chance against all night, and finished with five of her own after Shnaider had surrendered just four all tournament before Monday.<\/p>\n

A semi-finalist at this year\u2019s French Open, Shnaider upset No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula to make the quarters after losing to the same player in the NBO semis two years ago.<\/p>\n

A six-time Grand Slam winner, including last year\u2019s Wimbledon crown, Swiatek made the NBO semis in 2023 when she also lost to Pegula, who would go onto capture consecutive titles.<\/p>\n

Shnaider and partner Elise Mertens of Belgium, who are No. 6 seeds in doubles, play Slovakia\u2019s Tereza Mihalikova and Britain\u2019s Olivia Nicholls on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The rest of the singles quarters will feature No. 2 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan \u2013 the top remaining seed \u2013 taking on No. 11 Naomi Osaka of Japan, and No. 4 Coco Gauff of the U.S. meeting No. 12 Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s tournament marked just the second time in the Open era, and the first since 1991, that all eight quarter-finalists on the women\u2019s side at Canada\u2019s national championship were seeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Poland’s Iga Swiatek hits a return to Diana Shnaider of Russia at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-853995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853995","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=853995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}