By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, August 3, 2025
Picture credit score: Minas Panagiotakis/Getty
A crackling Clara Tauson drive despatched Iga Swiatek sprawling right into a break up behind the baseline.
Dictating along with her serve, Tauson displaced the highly effective Pole with deep drives gorgeous Swiatek 7-6(1), 6-3 to attain one among her largest profession wins in Montreal.
It’s been a event of upsets and we’ve seen two of the most important within the final two days.
Canadian wild card Victoria Mboko shocked top-seeded Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-4 final night time.
Tonight, Tauson despatched the second-seeded Swiatek packing to arrange an interesting quarterfinal conflict vs. Australian Open champion Madison Keys.
Earlier, the sixth-seeded Keys saved a pair of match factors conquering Karolina Muchova, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, to e book a quarterfinal spot on the Omnium Banque Nationale quarterfinals.
A relaxed Tauson denied seven of 9 break factors snapping Swiatek’s nine-match profitable streak with an outstanding show of power-based baseline tennis. Other than a sloppy tiebreaker, Swiatek didn’t play poorly, Tauson simply took it to her when it mattered most.
The Sixteenth-seeded Tauson handed the Wimbledon winner her first defeat since she fell to Jessica Pegula within the Unhealthy Homburg grass-court closing in June.
One of many WTA Tour’s most commanding servers, Tauson confirmed tonight she’s rather more than a giant server. Tauson dotted all areas of the service field to arrange her fierce forehand, hit her two-handed backhand with daring intent and whereas she’s not practically as fast across the court docket because the speedy Swiatek, the 22-year-old Dane anticipated the path of the Pole’s pictures and sometimes beat her to the punch. Maybe that’s as a result of Tauson confronted Swiatek at Wimbledon, falling in straight units on the spherical of 16 final month.
Tonight, Tauson broke within the third sport then backed up the break with a love maintain for 3-1.
Although Swiatek earned double break level within the sixth sport, Tauson dug in with defiance and fought off 4 break factors throughout a punishing 14-point sport. Tauson held agency for 4-2.
Two video games later, the six-time Grand Slam champion earned triple break level. Swiatek was on the verge of breaking once more solely to see Tauson tame the menace with a five-point surge to carry for 5-3.
Cruising by her personal service video games, Swiatek threw down a powerful maintain at 15 for 4-5 then tightened the screws on Tauson’s serve within the tenth sport.
When the Dane served for the set, Swiatek lastly broke by at 15 to stage 5-all.
The tiebreaker was even after two factors when Tauson lifted her stage racing by six factors in a row seizing a one-set lead.
A troublesome Tauson saved seven of eight break factors in that opening set and repeatedly damage her opponent with the huge serve.
Swiatek would have been clever to drop again a bit deeper behind the baseline to present herself extra time on the return—and at the least give Tauson a special sightline on serve.
Catching her toss just a few instances, Tauson was decisive on serving path as she received eight of the primary 10 factors on her serve within the second set. Belting deep drives, Tauson broke at 15 for a 3-1 second-set lead.
Tauson slashed successive aces sealing a 7-6, 4-1 lead after one hour, 33 minutes of play.
The six-time Grand Slam champion made a push holding within the sixth sport then scoring her second break to chop the hole to 3-4.
Unfazed, Tauson continued torching first strikes and exploited the Pole’s fifth double fault to interrupt again for 5-3.
Serving for one among her largest profession wins, Tauson didn’t flinch and when Swiatek netted a closing backhand, Tauson broke into the huge smile to cap a well-deserved win.
