Denmark’s Tauson, 19th, got revenge for her Wimbledon fourth-round defeat by Swiatek last month with a 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 win over the second seed in Montreal.
Swiatek’s departure follows the eliminations of top seed Coco Gauff, two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula and fourth seed Mirra Andreeva. It’s truly fantastic and it indicates that all of the hard work that I’ve been putting in has been the correct thing,” said Tauson, who claimed her third WTA title in January – her first since 2021.
“I’m getting more confidence at this sort of level and feeling as though I fit in a little bit more. I think that assisted me today on the key points. Tauson will play Australian Open winner Madison Keys in the quarter-finals after the American saved two match points in a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Czech Karolina Muchova.
Earlier Sunday, four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka won just one game as she dominated Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova to complete a 6-1, 6-0 victory inside 49 minutes. Japan’s Osaka, a two-time US and Australian Open winner, is looking for her first title since coming back from maternity leave early in 2024.
The 27-year-old ended her association with coach Patrick Mouratoglou after less than a year and is now being guided by Poland’s Tomasz Wiktorowski, ex-coach of Swiatek. I came in with a good plan, and it just turned out to suit pretty well,” Osaka, ranked 49 in the world at the moment, said.
Australian Alex de Minaur maintained his good run with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory over American seventh seed Frances Tiafoe to advance to the quarter-finals of the men’s event in Toronto.
Ninth seed De Minaur, who last week captured the Washington Open, aims to improve on his runner-up finish in 2023. Fifth seed Denmark’s Holger Rune was the first major shock of the day as he was defeated by Alexei Popyrin 6-4, 2-6, 3-6.
