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The second seed's serve held up for one of her two matches on Day 12. Elena Rybakina landed 57 percent of her first serves to Iga Swiatek's 80 and held five of nine service games, while the seventh seed dropped none of her eight and converted four of five break points to win 6-2, 6-3 in 75 minutes. Rybakina had come through Coco Gauff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 two hours earlier, and four double faults to Swiatek's one followed; she saved one match point, no more. They arrived level at 4-4 on record.
Two games decided the men's final. Ben Shelton broke in game 7 for 4-3 and again in game 9 for 6-3, and Brandon Nakashima went the match without a break point before a tiebreak closed the second, 6-3, 7-6. Two champions ranked No. 8 close the Canadian Open: Shelton defending his 2025 title, Swiatek beating the second seed in straight sets.
Seed order survived Day 11 with one exception. ATP No. 33 Brandon Nakashima held all 11 of his service games and won 81 percent of his first-serve points to No. 24 Rafael Jodar's 68. The 20th seed saved four match points and 10 of 11 break points, and lost anyway, 7-6(3), 6-4 in 2 hours, 2 minutes, on five double faults.
Iga Swiatek needed three sets, dropping the second 1-6 as Elina Svitolina won 80 percent of her first-serve points in it, before breaking in game 6 for 3-3 and game 8 for 5-3 to get through 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. In the other men's semifinal, Ben Shelton took 78 minutes over 12th seed Learner Tien, 6-2, 6-3. The final pairs the fifth seed with a man 25 ATP places below him: Shelton leads their four meetings on record 4-0, all on hard, including a third-set tiebreak at last year's Canadian Open.
Free points decided the marquee quarterfinal. Elena Rybakina hit eight aces in the third set alone and won 83 percent of her first-serve points there, breaking once, in game 7 for 4-3, to close it out 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 in 2 hours, 33 minutes. Naomi Osaka took the opener by breaking for 5-5 and saved a match point in the third; the 11th seed leaves anyway.
Two seeds lost to lower-ranked men: 18th seed Arthur Fils fell 7-6(5), 6-3 to 20th seed Rafael Jodar, and 19th seed Luciano Darderi managed five games on ATP No. 33 Brandon Nakashima in a 77-minute loss. Elsewhere, defending champion Ben Shelton put 13th seed Jakub Mensik away in 72 minutes, 6-3, 6-1, and Coco Gauff advanced by walkover over 12th seed Belinda Bencic. Shelton, the only top-10 man left, gets 12th seed Learner Tien on Wednesday; Gauff vs Rybakina headlines the women's semifinals.
Seven service games, seven holds, and Diana Shnaider never saw a break point all afternoon. Iga Swiatek took 63 minutes to reach the semifinals, winning 6-2, 6-1 over the 15th seed while converting five of nine break points and winning 23 of her 26 first-serve points. The seventh seed's only stumble this week remains an opening set against Marta Kostyuk in the round of 16; Shnaider saved one match point, which is one more resistance than the scoreline suggests.
The other quarterfinal took a set to sort itself out. Ekaterina Alexandrova broke in game 5 for 3-2 and served out the opener, then lost 12 of the next 13 games as Elina Svitolina came through 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, breaking in games 1, 3 and 5 of the second and again for 4-1 in the third. Both higher-ranked seeds held, leaving WTA No. 8 and No. 10 waiting on a semifinal opponent: the remaining two quarterfinals have yet to be played.
Eight round-of-16 matches, eight wins for the higher-ranked player — and only one of them wobbled. Second seed Elena Rybakina trailed WTA No. 70 Liudmila Samsonova 0-3 in the decider before winning 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in 2 hours, 48 minutes, breaking back in game 4, again in game 6 for 3-3, and once more in game 10 to close it, going 3-of-6 on break points in the set to Samsonova's 2-of-2. The opening set alone carried eight breaks of serve.
Elsewhere the seeds that fell, fell to bigger seeds: Ben Shelton took 78 percent of his first-serve points and saw off 22nd seed Joao Fonseca 6-3, 7-6(3) after Fonseca saved one match point, while Belinda Bencic dropped one game in the last set against Alexandra Eala and Naomi Osaka ended Leylah Fernandez's week 6-4, 6-4. Coco Gauff, Learner Tien and Jakub Mensik all advanced in straight sets. Nothing in Montreal and Toronto broke this time, which sets up the quarterfinal the draw wanted: Osaka and Rybakina, with no prior meetings on record.
Seven seeds fell on Day 3, none louder than 10th seed Andrey Rublev, beaten 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(5) by ATP No. 270 Juncheng Shang in his second event back from a five-month absence. Rublev went 4-of-15 on break points to Shang's 4-of-7, broke for 4-2 in the decider, then dropped serve in game 9 and lost the tiebreak. Also Tuesday, No. 9 Flavio Cobolli saved three match points but not a fourth, out 7-6(5), 7-6(2) to Yannick Hanfmann.
The women's draw supplied the other five, two by retirement — Jelena Ostapenko down 6-0, 4-0 to Shuai Zhang, Katerina Siniakova at 5-2 in the third to Kamilla Rakhimova — while Clara Tauson, Maja Chwalinska and Donna Vekic lost to lower-ranked players. Chalk held elsewhere: Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek and third seed Alex De Minaur advanced without dropping a set; both Canadian Open draws enter Wednesday thinned in the middle, intact on top.