Taylor Townsend vs Belinda Bencic — R32 — Canadian Open

The second serve separated them. Belinda Bencic won 70% of the points behind hers to Taylor Townsend's 49%, and out-returned her on the second ball too, 26 of 51. Seven of the 12th seed's eight double faults came in the opening set, which she pushed to a tiebreak anyway. The leak closed there: one double fault the rest of the way. Townsend out-aced her 9-4 and won 74% of her own first-serve points, yet lost the points count 129-122, undone in a third set that turned three times — Bencic's break in game 3 for 2-1, the break back in game 8 for 4-4, then one more for 5-4 in game 9. Three hours, 24 minutes, with no prior meetings on record between them; Alexandra Eala, No. 28, is next.