Elena Rybakina came back from a set and a break down to beat Naomi Osaka in three sets in their Canadian Open quarter-final.<\/p>\n
Four-time Grand Slam winner Osaka had won the first set and was 4-2 up in the second before her Kazakh rival came back to win 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 in two hours and 33 minutes.<\/p>\n
“I was just trying to fight,” said Rybakina, whose 72 unforced errors were her most in a match this season. <\/p>\n
“The first game was really tough because it cost me the set, and then in the second I was just trying to stay closer to the score, even if I’m losing. I’m super happy that I won this match.”<\/p>\n
Japan’s Osaka broke Rybakina in the opening game on the way to claiming the first set in Toronto.<\/p>\n
The second set appeared to be going Osaka’s way as, despite having one break retrieved, she broke again to go 4-2 up against the the 2022 Wimbledon and 2026 Australian Open champion.<\/p>\n
However, Rybakina took three straight games and won the tie-break to level the match.<\/p>\n
Osaka had four break points when she led 3-2 in the decider but failed to take them as Rybakina held and then broke her opponent in the next game.<\/p>\n
Rybakina went on to emphatically serve out for the match, sealing victory with a 15th ace and she will play Coco Gauff in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Osaka said she was withdrawing from the Cincinnati Open, the last tournament before the US Open, because of “fatigue”.<\/p>\n
Gauff progressed after Belinda Bencic withdrew from their match with a hip injury.<\/p>\n
The other semi-final will be between Iga Swiatek, a 6-2 6-1 winner against Diana Shnaider, and Elina Svitolina, who beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6 6-0 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Rybakina came back from a set and a break down to beat Naomi Osaka in three sets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-811678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811678","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=811678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}