{"id":54147,"date":"2025-08-02T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54147\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:17:09","slug":"jessica-pegula-stunned-in-3-sets-in-montreal-osaka-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/54147\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula stunned in 3 sets in Montreal; Osaka advances"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL — Two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula<\/a> was eliminated in the third round of the National Bank Open after a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 loss to Anastasija Sevastova<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sevastova, a 35-year-old from Latvia who was ranked 11th in 2018 but has fallen to No. 386, broke the third-seeded Pegula six times on 10 chances.<\/p>\n

“Somehow, I was down 2-0 in the second set and started to play better and better,” Sevastova said. “Third set, I played really good. Just trying to stay on the court as long as possible.”<\/p>\n

In the night session, Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek<\/a> of Poland routed Eva Lys<\/a> of Germany 6-2, 6-2. The second-seeded Swiatek advanced to face 16th-seeded Clara Tauson<\/a> of Denmark, a 6-3, 6-0 winner over Ukraine’s Yuliia Starodubtseva<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sevastova has played 24 WTA Tour-level matches in four years. She got a spot in the main draw with a protected ranking because of a knee injury. In March 2024, in her fourth tournament back from maternity leave, she tore an ACL at the ATX Open<\/p>\n

“It’s tough, but I think I’m a fighter, also on court,” Sevastova said. “I didn’t want to give up. This was really about coming back and showing that you can do it after a torn ACL, after such a setback. It was like unfinished business.”<\/p>\n

Sevastova is the lowest-ranked player to beat a top-10 player since Angelique Kerber<\/a> edged Jelena Ostapenko<\/a> last year at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

The loss continued a poor run for the fourth-ranked Pegula, who won her opener in Montreal over Maria Sakkari<\/a> of Greece, but exited Wimbledon and the D.C. Open after one match in July.<\/p>\n

“It hasn’t been great, to be honest,” Pegula said. “I don’t really feel like I’m playing great tennis. At times I am, but I feel very up and down, kind of sloppy, which I don’t like. It really bothers me.”<\/p>\n

Sevastova will take on Naomi Osaka<\/a>, who moved to the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-4 win over 22nd-seeded Ostapenko.<\/p>\n

Osaka, a former No. 1-ranked player from Japan, hit five aces and converted six of nine break point opportunities to win the match in 1 hour, 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

“She broke me a couple times, but she’s a really good returner, so I can’t take that personally,” Osaka said. “I went in there knowing she’s a great player, and if I give her a chance, she’s going to hit a winner on me, so I just tried to keep my pace and stay as solid as I could.”<\/p>\n

Fifth-seeded Amanda Anisimova<\/a> of the United States routed Emma Raducanu<\/a> of England 6-2, 6-1 at night. Anisimova will play 10th-seeded Elina Svitolina<\/a> of the Ukraine, a 6-1, 6-1 winner over Anna Kalinskaya<\/a> of Russia in the late match.<\/p>\n

Sixth-seeded Madison Keys<\/a> beat fellow American Caty McNally<\/a> 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n

“Today I did a good job of bouncing back after the first set,” Keys said. “Let go of the first set and move on. Happy I was able to do that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL — Two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula was eliminated in the third round of the National Bank Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-54147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}