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Rybakina Faced Just 4 Break Points All Match as Tense Coco Gauff Fell Short in Toronto SF
Editor’s note: Coverage was delayed because of an outage affecting our hosting provider in Phoenix. Search the highlight reels from this one, and you’ll mostly find Coco Gauff winning all the points. That’s what happens when the WTA is all about promotion and not enough about…
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Free-Swinging Swiatek Sweeps Aside an Out-of-Sorts Rybakina in Canadian Open Final
Editor’s note: Coverage was delayed because of an outage affecting our hosting provider in Phoenix. (Updated: August 14, 2026, 11:10 a.m.) For two sets, there was only one player on court who actually looked like she knew what she was trying to do. Swiatek beat…
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Iga Swiatek Is Buzzing Again Like a Humble Bee, Beats Svitolina to Reach the Toronto Final
Swiatek vs. Svitolina: 2026 Toronto Semifinal Match Report A few weeks ago, the question hanging over Iga Swiatek was whether she could stop the slide. Tonight in Toronto, she gave the clearest answer yet, and she’s not done for the week. Swiatek beat Elina Svitolina…
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Roland Garros Junior Champion Alisa Oktiabreva Joins Czech Republic After Growing Up in Prague
Alisa Oktiabreva was born in Russia, but almost her entire life in tennis has been shaped somewhere else. The 17-year-old Roland Garros girls’ singles champion has obtained Czech citizenship and now represents the Czech Republic. On paper, her nationality change may look like another entry…
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Elena Rybakina Refuses to Fold, Rallies From a Set and 4-2 Down to Beat Naomi Osaka
Rybakina vs Osaka in Toronto match report: Elena Rybakina trailed by a set and then fell 4-2 behind in the second. Her serve was misfiring, the errors were piling up, and Naomi Osaka appeared to have the match exactly where she wanted it. Rybakina won…
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Elina Svitolina Survives Ekaterina Alexandrova’s Fast Start to Reach Another Toronto Semifinal
Ekaterina Alexandrova arrived in this quarterfinal still riding the high of the biggest win of her season, a stunning upset over world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka earlier in this same tournament. For one set, it looked like the form had carried straight over. Svitolina beat…
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Iga Swiatek Ends Diana Shnaider’s Toronto Run and Looks Like Her Old Self Doing It
A few days ago, the question hanging over Iga Swiatek’s tournament was whether she could stop the rot. Tonight, she didn’t just stop it. She made it look like it was never really there. Swiatek beat Diana Shnaider 6-2, 6-1 to reach the semi-finals at…
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Canadian Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Canadian Open 2026 WTA 1000 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from Toronto. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts at Sobeys Stadium. Last updated on August 14, following…
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Hunger Beats Fatigue as Belinda Bencic Ends Alexandra Eala’s Toronto Run
Alexandra Eala had won her last seven matches. Four of them went three sets. One of them ended with a rolled ankle and a medical timeout. The warnings had been there for over a week. Bencic beat Eala 6-4, 6-0, a result that will read…
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Naomi Osaka Rolls Past Leylah Fernandez to Set Up Rybakina Clash in Toronto
Three matches into Toronto, Naomi Osaka still has not lost a set. Osaka beat Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals, passing her most demanding test of the tournament without ever allowing the match to escape her control. She opened her campaign with a…
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Coco Gauff Is the Last American Standing in Toronto, and She’s Making It Look Routine
By the time Alina Korneeva walked off Centre Court, she’d become the third player in three rounds to leave a match against Coco Gauff having won a combined five games. Every other American in the draw is already gone. Gauff is the only one left,…
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Elena Rybakina Finds a Way Past Liudmila Samsonova Despite Forehand Struggles in Toronto
Ask what makes Elena Rybakina dangerous and the answer usually starts with the serve: the effortless power, the free points, the aces that can turn a game before an opponent has settled into it. Sunday in Toronto demanded something different. Rybakina beat Liudmila Samsonova 6-4,…
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Alexandra Eala Is Filling Stadiums by Herself, and She’s Back Under the Toronto Lights Sunday Against Bencic
Try this thought experiment for a second. Imagine two or three more players in women’s tennis who could sell out a Centre Court session in the second or third round on their own. Not on the strength of their seeding. Just because of who they…
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Alexandrova Enters God Mode in Toronto, Sabalenka the Victim Once Again
Ten months ago, Ekaterina Alexandrova was playing the best tennis of her career even reaching a career high. Then, slowly and without any single obvious cause, it started slipping away. Tonight in Toronto, it stopped slipping, and it did so in spectacular fashion. Alexandrova beat…
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Diana Shnaider Gets Her Revenge, and Jessica Pegula’s Schedule May Be the Reason Why
Six days ago, Jessica Pegula beat Diana Shnaider in a Washington semifinal, 7-5, 6-4. She then went on to a DC Open final, and lost it in a third-set bagel. Today, Shnaider got the rematch, and this time the result flipped completely. Shnaider won 6-3,…
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Leylah Fernandez Keeps Getting Written Off, and Keeps Making Fools of the People Who Do It
There is a particular kind of tennis player who only seems to exist in the space between what the ranking says and what actually happens on the court. Leylah Fernandez has spent most of 2026 living in that space. Today, she made it pay. Leylah…
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Qualifier Alina Korneeva Knocks Out Iva Jovic and Reaches the Last 16 in Toronto
Iva Jovic arrived in Toronto seeded 13th, sitting at a career-high ranking, and left in straight sets against a player who had to win three matches just to get into the third round. Alina Korneeva beat Jovic 6-3, 6-4, a result that’s a genuine setback…
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Toronto Has Been Seeded Players’ Territory, and the Qualifying Class Has Paid For It
Sixteen players fought through qualifying to reach the main draw in Toronto. Two of them are still standing. That collapse isn’t really about the qualifiers doing anything wrong. It’s about how kind this draw has been to the players seeded into it in the first…
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Leylah Fernandez Carries Canada’s Hopes Into a Trap Game Against Mirra Andreeva
Victoria Mboko isn’t walking through that door. The defending champion is an 18-year-old wildcard no more. A year ago she shocked her way to the title by beating Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Naomi Osaka in her own backyard. She will not defend it. A…
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Toronto Rearranges Its Schedule to Put Eala and Venus Williams on Centre Court
Centre Court in Toronto has a pairing on it that didn’t exist a month ago. The tournament rebuilt its entire evening schedule to make room for it. Alexandra Eala and Venus Williams will open their doubles campaign on the main stage. That slot is usually…
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Rybakina Beats Kasatkina in Three, But Can’t Shake Her Second-Set Problem
Elena Rybakina won two sets against Daria Kasatkina in Toronto. She just couldn’t win them in a row. Rybakina advanced 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. It’s a scoreline that’s become familiar this season, and not always in a good way. She’s now dropped the second set after…