Konta, Sharapova fall at Rogers Cup in Toronto
Estonian Kontaveit battled back from a hard and fast and a destroy down inside the first-round suit to defeat the 5-time Grand Slam champion, who entered the event as a wild card after injuries saved her out of motion for lots of the season.The Russian sent a forehand provider go back lengthy on match factor to cease the engrossing hour and forty one minute warfare.
Kontaveit will subsequent face either seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams or Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro, who play their first-spherical in shape on Tuesday.
In advance inside the day, Yastremska, ranked thirty third within the world, squandered 4 fit points but took her 5th possibility, dispatching Konta with the clock barely ticking past midday on the Toronto hardcourt.
The end result avenged Yastremska’s loss to Konta whilst the pair met at Eastbourne in June.
The nineteen-12 months-vintage from Odessa is having a breakout season after claiming two titles and generating a spirited run to the final sixteen at Wimbledon.
Russia’s Daria Kasatkina recovered from a disastrous first set to disenchanted twelfth seed Angelique Kerber 0-6 6-2 6-four whilst Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko, fifteenth seed Caroline Wozniacki and American Jennifer Brady all advanced in directly units on the WTA’s top-quality 5 event.
In other suits, 76th-ranked American Jennifer Brady defeated fiftieth-ranked Kristina Mladenovic of France 6-1 6-2. Swiss eleventh seed Belinda Benic, the 2015 champion, beat Russian Anastasia Potapova 6-2 6-1 and twentieth-ranked Belgian Elise Mertens outlasted Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 3-6 6-3 6-1.
Tuesday’s agenda functions international primary Ashleigh Barty taking on American Sofia Kenin and an all-Canadian conflict between Eugenie Bouchard and teenager Bianca Andreescu.
Upsets bookended the Rogers Cup on Monday with Ukrainian teen Dayana Yastremska beating British thirteenth seed Johanna Konta 6-3 6-2 early on in Toronto before Maria Sharapova fell 4-6 6-3 6-4 to Anett Kontaveit underneath the lighting fixtures in the nighttime session.