Canadian Open: Brady beats Ostapenko in wild three-setter to reach second round

American Jennifer Brady, playing in only her third tournament in two years, reached the second round of the Canadian Open by edging out former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in a see-saw three-set battle on Monday.

Brady won the first set in a tiebreaker before being bagelled in the second set and then coming back to win the third in another tiebreaker to complete the 7-6 (7), 0-6, 7-6 (8) in two hours and 31 minutes. The American saved two match points en route to the victory.

Brady will face No 3 seed Elena Rybakina in the second round.

Montreal WTA 1000, other first-round matches (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2,788,468):

• Katie Boulter (Q) beat Rebecca Marino (WC): 6-3, 6-1
• Sloane Stephens beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
• Madison Keys (13) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-2, 7-5
• Belinda Bencic (12) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
• Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
• Victoria Azarenka (16) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
• Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
• Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
• Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2
• Camila Giorgi vs. Bianca Andreescu
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Mayar Sherif
• Petra Martic vs. Lesia Tsurenko
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Magdalena Frech
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Qinwen Zheng
• Anna Blinkova vs. Shuai Zhang
• Leylah Fernandez vs. Peyton Stearns
• Elise Mertens vs. Daria Kasatkina
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Kimberly Birrell
• Bernarda Pera vs. Yulia Putintseva
• Anastasia Potapova vs. Karolina Muchova
• Liudmila Samsonova vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Alycia Parks vs. Lauren Davis
• Danielle Collins vs. Elina Svitolina

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