{"id":57050,"date":"2025-08-04T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:53:10","slug":"clara-tauson-downs-iga-swiatek-to-reach-montreal-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57050\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson downs Iga Swiatek to reach Montreal quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTREAL — Clara Tauson<\/a> of Denmark upset second-seeded Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek<\/a> of Poland 7-6 (1), 6-3 on Sunday night to reach the National Bank Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot Tauson, seeded 16th in the hard-court event that ends Thursday, avenged a loss to Swiatek at Wimbledon to set up a match Tuesday with sixth-seeded Australian Open winner Madison Keys<\/a> of the United States.<\/p>\n

“I think, obviously, getting a win against her after losing to her in Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago is, obviously, nice, because I was not feeling great in that match, and I felt like I was playing some good tennis in Wimbledon,” Tauson said. “So I felt like if I could keep that going, I thought I had a shot.”<\/p>\n

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Tauson won her lone tour title in New Zealand in January, beating fellow Montreal quarterfinalist Naomi Osaka<\/a> of Japan in the final.<\/p>\n

Keys outlasted 11th-seeded Karolina Muchova<\/a> of Czechia 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the windy afternoon session.<\/p>\n

“Clara’s a fantastic ball-striker,” Keys said about the quarterfinal match. “She’s got a big serve. She’s got a lot of power on both sides. She covers the court quite well on top of everything, so I feel like she’s one of those matches where you kind of have to temper a little bit and not go for things too quickly.”<\/p>\n

Osaka also advanced in the afternoon, routing Anastasija Sevastova<\/a> of Latvia 6-1, 6-0 in 49 minutes — the second-fastest victory of her career. Osaka had a 42-minute victory in a 2016 event in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Osaka reached the final eight of a WTA 1000 or Grand Slam event for the first time in 19 months. On Tuesday, she will face 10th-seeded Elina Svitolina<\/a> of Ukraine, a 6-4, 6-1 winner over fifth-seed Amanda Anisimova<\/a> of the United States.<\/p>\n

On Monday night in the quarterfinals, 18-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko<\/a> will face Jessica Bouzas Maneiro<\/a> of Spain, and Marta Kostyuk<\/a> of Ukraine will meet ninth-seeded Elena Rybakina<\/a> of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL — Clara Tauson of Denmark upset second-seeded Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek of Poland 7-6 (1), 6-3 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-57050","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\/57050","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=57050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}