the biggest upset of the tournament<\/a> so far with Anastasija Sevastova knocking out two-time defending NBO champion Jessica Pegula.\u00a0<\/p>\nOsaka was a winner on Centre Court to start play, improving to 3-0 against fellow Grand Slam champ Jelena Ostapenko with no sets lost. Osaka\u2019s 6-2, 6-4 win came two days after the four-time Grand Slam winner saved a pair of match points against 2023 finalist Liudmila Samsonova.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s now 2-0 with new coach Tomasz Wiktorowski watching from the stands.<\/p>\n
What has stuck out from their time together so far?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think with personality, I was a little nervous because he seems a little stern but he\u2019s actually kind of funny,\u201d said Osaka. \u201cHe\u2019ll randomly say a joke that I wasn\u2019t expecting or something like that. I like him a lot. I know that we\u2019ve only played two matches, but he seems very decisive with what he wants. And I think that that makes it very clear for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pegula\u2019s doubles partner in Montreal, Australian Open champ Madison Keys, avoided an upset with a comeback 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over a surging Caty McNally.<\/p>\n
Along with Keys and Osaka, Clara Tauson counts as another hefty ball striker.\u00a0The 16th-seeded Dane beat Ukraine\u2019s Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-3, 6-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Night Session Results\u00a0<\/p>\n
Centre Court was the sight of two lopsided matches on Friday night with Swiatek easily disposing of Eva Lys and reigning NBO and Wimbledon finalist Anisimova making quick work of Emma Raducanu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Rogers Court, former French Open finalist Muchova was victorious in an entertaining three-set contest against Belinda Bencic and former NBO champion Svitolina advanced thanks to a win over Anna Kalinskaya.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s results set the table for an impressive slate of fourth round matches set to be played during TennisFest Weekend to determine this year\u2019s quarter-finalists. If you\u2019re coming to IGA Stadium on Saturday, don\u2019t forget to wear your best throwback tennis look to celebrate Retro Night presented by Iris.<\/p>\n
Photo: Mathieu B\u00e9langer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek, Amanda Anisimova, Madison Keys, Elina Svitolina, Karolina Muchova, and Naomi Osaka are just a few of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-55239","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\/55239","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=55239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}