Swiatek tops former No 1 Pliskova in Montreal

Pole Iga Swiatek, the top seed, defeated Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (6), 6-2 to reach the last 16 of the Canadian Open at Stade IGA in Montreal on Wednesday evening.

30 – Iga Swiatek has won her tournament debut in each of her last 30 appearances in a WTA event.

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The world No 1 has not lost her opening match at a tournament since Cincinnati in 2021 and she continued the trend on a sunny Wednesday in Montreal, pulling away from the former world No 1 in a lopsided second set that saw Swiatek break for 1-0 and 5-1.

Pliskova recovered one of the breaks back with Swiatek serving for the match at 5-1 in the second set, but the Pole broke at 15 to close out her third victory in three tries against Pliskova, in one hour and 48 minutes.

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Swiatek, ranked No 1, will play the winner of the match between Romanian Sorana Cirstea and No 14 seed Karolina Muchova next.

She improves to 48-7 on the season and 22-4 on the hard courts in 2023.

In the previous round of the Rogers Cup, Pliskova, ranked No 23, won against Chinese Lin Zhu (6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2).

Montreal WTA 1000, other second-round results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2.788.468, most recent results first):

• Petra Kvitova vs. Camila Giorgi
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Madison Keys
• Petra Martic vs. Aryna Sabalenka
• Danielle Collins vs. Maria Sakkari
• Marketa Vondrousova vs. Caroline Wozniacki
• Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Jennifer Brady vs. Elena Rybakina
• Anna Blinkova vs. Daria Kasatkina: wednesday
• Sorana Cirstea vs. Karolina Muchova: wednesday
• Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Qinwen Zheng: 6-3, 6-2
• Jessica Pegula (4) beat Yulia Putintseva (LL): 6-4, 6-4
• Belinda Bencic (12) beat Alycia Parks (Q): 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• Coco Gauff (6) beat Katie Boulter (Q): 6-2, 6-2
• Victoria Azarenka vs. Sloane Stephens
• Marie Bouzkova beat Caroline Garcia (5): 6-4, 4-6, 6-2