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Iga Swiatek Finds Another Gear to Sweep Aside Diane Parry in Cincinnati
Iga Swiatek vs. Diane Parry — Cincinnati 2026 R16 Match Report Iga Swiatek gave Diane Parry an early opening in Cincinnati. She did not give her many more. The seventh seed recovered from dropping serve in the opening game and steadily imposed herself on the Frenchwoman, winning 12 of the next 17 games for a…
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Marie Bouzkova Denies Iva Jovic Twice Before Winning Cincinnati Tiebreak Battle
Marie Bouzkova vs. Iva Jovic — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Marie Bouzkova spent much of Wednesday’s Cincinnati third-round match trying to stop Iva Jovic from taking control. Twice the American reached a position from which she could serve out a set. Twice Bouzkova refused to let her. The Czech No. 22 seed turned those…
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Coco Gauff Escapes Ann Li’s Second-Set Push in Cincinnati After a Match That Nearly Turned
Coco Gauff vs. Ann Li— Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Ann Li was two points from taking Coco Gauff into a deciding set. Then the match tightened around her. Li, the 25-year-old American from King of Prussia, has spent years building toward the kind of result she nearly found in Cincinnati. A 2017 Wimbledon girls’…
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Linda Noskova and Amanda Anisimova Bring a Three-Match H2H Into Cincinnati’s Sharpest Round-of-16 Test
Linda Noskova vs. Amanda Anisimova — Cincinnati 2026 R16 Match Preview Linda Noskova has been moving through Cincinnati like a player who knows exactly what her summer has become. Amanda Anisimova has been doing something different: trying to steady a ranking position that suddenly feels less comfortable than it looks. That makes their Cincinnati Open…
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Madison Keys Breaks Katerina Siniakova Four Times to Reach the Cincinnati Round of 16
Madison Keys vs. Katerina Siniakova — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Both Madison Keys and Katerina Siniakova arrived in Cincinnati carrying the same uncomfortable memory: a first-round exit at last year’s US Open. For Keys, the 31-year-old former major champion, this week has doubled as the start of a North American swing she needs to…
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Jessica Pegula Turns a Tight Set Into a Rout to Beat Emma Navarro in Cincinnati
Jessica Pegula vs. Emma Navarro — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Jessica Pegula didn’t need to be spectacular in Cincinnati. She needed to be steady, and steady turned out to be more than enough against an Emma Navarro who couldn’t find consistency on her own serve for more than a few games at a stretch.…
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Magdalena Frech Fights Off Several Match Points but Falls to Rybakina in the Breaker
Elena Rybakina vs. Magdalena Frech— Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report Magdalena Frech had every reason to believe she was about to produce the win of her season. Serving to stay in the match at 5-6 down in the second set, staring down match points against the world No. 2, the Pole found composure exactly when…
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Iga Swiatek Shakes Off an Early Wobble to Roll Past Maria Sakkari in Cincinnati
Iga Swiatek vs. Maria Sakkari — Cincinnati 2026 R32 Match Report For close to an hour, Maria Sakkari looked like the player carrying the better recent form into this one. She had climbed back inside the top 30 on the strength of two big runs this season, and for a set in Cincinnati, that trajectory…
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Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula and Friends Completely Lose It During Hilarious Ad Read
And now for something completely different… Tennis is an unbelievably brutal sport. Players spend most of the year travelling, dealing with pressure, injuries, ranking points, silly on-court interviews, and the peculiar loneliness of standing on one side of a court knowing there is nobody else to blame when things go wrong. Which is precisely why…
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Coco Gauff Feeds Off a Rain Delay as Liudmila Samsonova Falls Apart
Coco Gauff vs. Liudmila Samsonova — Cincinnati 2026 R64 Match Report Coco Gauff spent the first set in Cincinnati looking exactly like a player who’d rather be somewhere else. Liudmila Samsonova, ranked 39 places below her, was hitting through the court and taking the racket out of Gauff’s hands, and the world No. 4 had…
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Aryna Sabalenka Needs a Tiebreak to Shake Off a Stubborn Talia Gibson in Cincinnati
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Talia Gibson — Cincinnati 2026 R64 Match Report Aryna Sabalenka has spent the year swatting away lower-ranked opponents without much fuss, and for a set in Cincinnati it looked like more of the same. Talia Gibson, the 65th-ranked Australian and 60 spots her junior in the rankings, had other plans. She dug…
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Clara Tauson Survives Two Separate Collapses to Outlast Peyton Stearns in Cincinnati
Clara Tauson vs. Peyton Stearns — Cincinnati 2026 R64 Match Report Clara Tauson’s night in Cincinnati went through two entirely different disaster zones before it produced a winner. The Danish 23-year-old let a set slip away from six-all in a breaker she should have controlled, then watched an entire second set vanish in what amounted…
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Emma Navarro Weathers Anhelina Kalinina’s Fast Start to Reach the Cincinnati Last 32
Anhelina Kalinina had no business making this a contest on paper, arriving 23 spots below Emma Navarro in the rankings and with a single ace to her name after two sets. For the better part of an hour, though, the Ukrainian played like the seeding sheet was upside down. She hit deeper, she found more…
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Iga Swiatek Has Her Tennis Back, but Without Time for Appreciation, the Calendar Makes No Sense
Iga Swiatek arrived in Cincinnati with a title, a reset and a familiar complaint. Toronto gave her something she had been chasing for weeks: cleaner tennis, calmer decision-making and the feeling that her game was finally responding again. But the moment did not come with much room to enjoy it. That was the tension in…
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PHILTA’s Tennis Etiquette Guide Is Not Just About Alex Eala Fans
Alex Eala’s rise has brought something tennis always claims to want. New fans. New voices. New national pride. New people in the stands who may not have grown up with the sport’s strange little rituals: when to clap, when to stay quiet, when to move, when to sit, when to put the phone away, and…
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Emiliana Arango Ends Venus Williams’ Cincinnati Run, but the Doubles Reunion With Serena Is Just Beginning
Venus Williams’ return to singles lasted one match. Arango beat Williams 6-2, 6-2 in the first round in Cincinnati, a result that extends Williams’ losing streak on tour to 14 matches. She’s 46 years old, playing on a wildcard, and still choosing to show up. That part of the story isn’t over. She and her…
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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 the real tennis happening on the court. So here is…
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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 Rybakina 6-2, 6-3 to win the Canadian Open. The gap…
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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 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 to reach the Canadian Open final, her…
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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 in the growing list of Russian-born players switching countries. Her…
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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 anyway. The Kazakh fought back to beat Osaka 4-6, 7-6(5),…
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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 Alexandrova 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 to reach the Canadian Open semifinals.…
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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 the Canadian Open in Toronto. It’s the kind of scoreline…
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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 the women’s final between Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina. Scroll…
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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 as a statement for the Swiss but plays just as…
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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 6-2, 6-4 win over Panna Udvardy, then overwhelmed 20th seed…
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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, and she’s not just surviving. She’s cruising. Gauff beat Korneeva…
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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, 4-6, 6-4 in a bruising contest that lasted nearly three…
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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 are. The sport wouldn’t just be healthier. It would look…
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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 world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4. It’s a…