TORONTO \u2014 Belinda Bencic pulled out of the National Bank Open presented by Rogers on Tuesday due to a hip injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Organizers confirmed the withdrawal shortly before her quarterfinal match against American Coco Gauff was scheduled to begin at Sobeys Stadium.<\/p>\n
“I am really sorry to not be able to compete tonight,” Bencic said in a statement. “This is an amazing tournament and I was really looking forward to playing in front of the great fans here in Toronto.<\/p>\n
“I tried everything possible to be ready for tonight.”<\/p>\n
The fourth-seeded Gauff advanced to the semifinals via walkover.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan defeated Japan’s Naomi Osaka, the No. 11 seed, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 to advance to play Gauff. <\/p>\n
No. 9 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine and seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland secured semifinal berths a day earlier.<\/p>\n
The 12th-seeded Bencic, who won here in 2015, defeated Alexandra Eala of the Philippines on Sunday to reach the quarterfinals. Bencic played with significant taping around her left thigh.<\/p>\n
Semifinal matches were set for Wednesday and the final was scheduled for Thursday at the WTA Tour event.<\/p>\n
In doubles semifinal play, Italy’s Sara Errani and American Nicole Melichar-Martinez beat Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh and Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko 6-1, 4-6, 10-8.<\/p>\n
In quarterfinal action, Tereza Mihalikova of Slovakia and Britain’s Olivia Nicholls posted a 7-5, 6-4 win over Belgium’s Elise Mertens and Russia’s Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Belinda Bencic pulled out of the National Bank Open presented by Rogers on Tuesday due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-855008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855008","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=855008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}