Clara Tauson\u2019s stellar victory against Iga Swiatek at the 2025 Canadian Open saw her become the fifth player to accomplish a formidable feat in 2025.<\/p>\n
The world No 19 downed\u00a0Swiatek<\/a>, the No 2 seed, 7-6(1), 6-3 in the fourth round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal.<\/p>\n Tauson ended Swiatek\u2019s nine-match winning streak that included her Wimbledon title run. It avenged Tauson\u2019s 4-6, 1-6 defeat to the 24-year-old Pole in the last 16 at the All England Club last month.<\/p>\n The Dane\u2019s triumph was her fifth career top 10 win and second against a top five opponent \u2014 after she beat world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka in Dubai in February.<\/p>\n She is the fifth player to defeat both Sabalenka and Swiatek in 2025 after Madison Keys, Mirra Andreeva, Coco Gauff and Jelena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n Asked how she felt in her on-court interview, Tauson said:\u00a0\u201cUnreal. Totally unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n On her strategy, she said: \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know. I was playing good tennis in tough conditions here with the wind, but yeah, I really tried my best to keep my head cool and keep working, even though I got broken in the second set.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff v Iga Swiatek for No 2 spot in WTA Rankings: How battle shapes up after Canadian Open exits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Iga Swiatek\u2019s army of snipers will be waiting for her to fail as this champion follows different rules<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI was feeling confident and I\u2019m really happy about the win.\u201d<\/p>\n Tauson added: \u201cI just felt like after I won the first set that I needed to continue, because I know she\u2019s never going to give up, and she\u2019s going to come out firing no matter what.<\/p>\n \u201cI think obviously getting a win against her after losing to her in Wimbledon and a couple of weeks ago is obviously nice, because I was not feeling great in that match, and I felt like I was playing some good tennis in Wimbledon. So I felt like if I could keep that going, I thought I had a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n Tauson\u2019s run to the last eight in Canada has lifted her two places to a projected new career-high position of 17th in the Live WTA Rankings.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old will face world No 8 and Australian Open winner Madison Keys in the quarter-finals in Montreal.<\/p>\n She is chasing her fourth and biggest career title, having secured her three to date at WTA 250 level.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a05 youngest women to beat No 1 seed at a WTA 1000 event: Victoria Mboko joins Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva<\/a> The post Clara Tauson becomes 5th woman to beat Iga Swiatek & Aryna Sabalenka in 2025 with Canadian Open upset<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clara Tauson\u2019s stellar victory against Iga Swiatek at the 2025 Canadian Open saw her become the fifth player to accomplish a formidable feat in 2025. The world No 19 downed\u00a0Swiatek, the No 2 seed, 7-6(1), 6-3 in the fourth round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal. Tauson ended Swiatek\u2019s nine-match winning streak that included […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
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