Aoi Ito upset Jasmine Paolini and on match point she ripped a two-hand backhand up the line, attacked the net and then deftly dropped a perfect volley winner. She may be the only player in the tournament to charge the net off a return. Paolini is no longer working with Marc Lopez, who coached her at Wimbledon. Ito, ranked 110, came back from 26 14 down to the Italian and prevailed 75 76(5)for her first top ten win.
Maria Bouzkova has her own logo on her Joma shirt. Of course it’s a stylized MB.
Elena Rybakina has saved 179 of 272 break points this season, leading the WTA Tour with a 65.8% break points saved percentage among players with at least 10 WTA main draw matches played—also up 3.0% from last year. Rybakina defeated rising American Hailey Baptiste 64 63.
Who has the most aces on WTA Tour this year? Rybakina and Linda Noskova both with 93. Mirra Andreeva has 90 and Naomi Osaka has 78. Alycia Parks has 74.
Parks had two match points vs Newport champion Caty McNally in R1 of Montreal but double faulted on her second chance. McNally eventually won 64 57 76 (7) and is currently riding the wave of an eleven-match win streak.
Genie Bouchard: “If I win the tournament I will come out of retirement.”
Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from the tournament because of her ankle injury suffered in the first round win vs Krejcikova.
In the Open Era, Victoria Mboko (18y 336d) is now the youngest Canadian to defeat a Grand Slam champion (Sofia Kenin 63 62) in the women’s singles at the Canadian Open, surpassing Bianca Andreescu (19y 50d).
Leylah Fernandez lost 46 16 to Maya Joint and now has time to go out on the first date of her life. The Canadian has publicized a campaign to find a young man who will take her on a date and have a nice conversation. Fernandez revealed she has never been on a date due to dedicated all of her time and energy to her tennis career.
Iga Swiatek practiced yesterday in Montreal with a new blue Technifibre racquet.
#obn25 · Canadian Open · Montreal
Steve · July 30, 2025 at 1:54 pm
Learner Tien has beaten four top 10 players this year: Medvedev, Zverev, Shelton & Rublev but also found time this week to dismiss Shapovalov from Toronto.
What shall we call it? The Next Next Next Gen pushing out the Next Gen?
Shapo’s flowing strokes are still beautiful to the eye but I wonder if anyone bets on him to win these matches.
Scoop Malinowski · July 30, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Shapo is a journeyman now. Tien is the brightest young star in the game, I think he’s passed Fonseca but not Mensik. Tien is the one to watch. Maybe Shapo is happy at his station as a journeyman.