Raducanu

Defending champion Camila Giorgi upset Emma Raducanu in the 1st-round of the National Bank Open in Toronto on Tuesday. © Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images ...

“I felt my back from the start of the match, and despite trying to push through it, I just wasn’t able to today,” Osaka said. Maybe I ate too much before the match. With a mix of a strong backhand and multiple errors from Kanepi, Osaka was able to tie it up and send the set to a tiebreak, in which they tied to 3-3 before the Estonian cranked up her play to take 4 of the next 5 points as the Japanese handed her set point on a shot past the baseline. “It was a great match,” Giorgi said after her win. Osaka struggled with unforced errors and made 4 of her 5 double-faults in the first set and, although she won the first game with the help of 3 unforced errors from Kanepi, the 4-time Grand Slam champion lost her momentum after going up 2-1. Maybe a bunch of things. Maybe I ate too much before the match. Man, I don’t want to dwell too much on it and, like, sound so dramatic. Prior to that run, she had her best tournament of the year making it to the final of the Miami Open in early April before losing to top-ranked Iga Swiatek. Andreescu settled down to prevail in the breaker but, with the match on her racket at 5-3 in the second, she succumbed to another break and immediately broke back to finally nail down the win. I don’t know what it was. Both lost their serves 3 times in the hard-fought opening set before Raducanu dug deep to fend off set point in the 12th game to force a tiebreak, but the 19-year-old lost her way and failed to win a single point as Giorgi forced 4 mini-breaks to seize control and take the first set after an hour and 11 minutes.