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The seedings covered one set of the women's final at the Washington Open. Top seed Jessica Pegula took the opener and saved a match point, but Alexandra Eala, the WTA No. 29, won 12 of the last 16 games in a 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 decision built on 84 percent of first-serve points won to Pegula's 57. The title is Eala's first, and Pegula is her fourth top-three win on record, after two over Iga Swiatek and a June win over Elena Rybakina.
On the men's side, the resistance arrived later: No. 3 seed Taylor Fritz played a breakless first set into a tiebreak, and ATP No. 25 Rafael Jodar saved four match points before Fritz converted a fifth to close it 7-6, 6-4. Neither title came on a first match point, and the week closes with the trophies split — the men's went with the seedings, the women's emphatically against them.
Second serves decided Saturday's marquee semifinal at the Washington Open. Alexandra Eala won 79 percent of hers while Naomi Osaka managed 48, a leak that fed 12 break points — four converted — in the WTA No. 29's 6-4, 6-2 win, closed in 76 minutes on a third match point after Osaka saved two. The No. 3 seed's exit sends Eala into a final against top seed Jessica Pegula, a 7-5, 6-4 winner over fourth seed Diana Shnaider.
On the men's side, No. 3 seed Taylor Fritz stopped Brandon Nakashima 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, and ATP No. 25 Rafael Jodar came from a set down past Alejandro Tabilo, 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-4 in 2 hours, 23 minutes, stretching a week that includes Friday's quarterfinal win over ATP No. 15 Lorenzo Musetti. The finals are set: Pegula–Eala on the women's side, and Fritz — the lone seed among the men's four semifinalists — against Jodar.
Friday's quarterfinals stripped the Washington Open men's draw of its top two seeds. Brandon Nakashima beat top seed Alex De Minaur 7-6(5), 6-4, taking 83 percent of first-serve points and saving six of seven break points, while No. 2 seed Ben Shelton took the opener off Alejandro Tabilo, then went 0-for-4 on break points in the second of a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 loss. Rafael Jodar ousted fourth-seeded Lorenzo Musetti 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, leaving No. 3 seed Taylor Fritz — a 7-6(6) third-set escape past Alex Michelsen — as the last men's seed standing.
Also Friday, second-seeded Elina Svitolina joined the exodus, 6-3, 6-4 to Alexandra Eala. Top seed Jessica Pegula, now the only top-two seed left in either draw, beat fifth-seeded Anna Kalinskaya 6-3, 7-5, and Naomi Osaka and Diana Shnaider advanced alongside her. The men's semifinals hold a single seed: Fritz meets Nakashima, while Jodar and Tabilo guarantee an unseeded finalist.
Both No. 6 seeds went out on Day 1 at the Washington Open, each from a set up. Frances Tiafoe had won all three meetings on record with Terence Atmane, including at Wimbledon this month, but the ATP No. 49 took the fourth 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on his second match point, winning 83 percent of first-serve points. Hours later, WTA No. 69 Liudmila Samsonova ran off the last four games against Madison Keys from 2-4 down in the third, breaking in games 7 and 9 to close 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
The other four seeds didn't drop a set: Taylor Fritz needed 65 minutes for Zizou Bergs, Lorenzo Musetti advanced when Matteo Arnaldi retired down 6-0, 3-1, and Leylah Fernandez and Emma Navarro conceded ten games combined. Also Monday, ATP No. 719 Kei Nishikori outlasted Juncheng Shang 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4. The No. 6 sections now run through Atmane and Samsonova.