World No. 24 Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia achieved a resounding surprise by knocking out No. 1 Polish Iga Sventek from the third round of the Toronto tennis tournament.
Haddad Maia, 26, who won titles in Nottingham and Birmingham last June, scored her first victory against the world number one player 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, becoming the first Brazilian to reach the quarter-finals of one of the tournaments for a thousand points WTA.
On her fourth match point, Beatriz Haddad Maia made the biggest upset in history. #NBO22.????
She knocks out the first racket of the world. 1 Iga Svyatek 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in exactly three hours. pic.twitter.com/qKEyCfMSOy
— The National Bank is opened (@NBOtoronto) August 11, 2022
Haddad Maia, the first Brazilian to face a world number one player since her compatriot Tillian Pereira lost to American Serena Williams at Roland Garros in 2016, managed to defeat Sventek after a three-hour match.
For her part, Sventek, who has won six titles this season, including the Roland Garros championship, missed the opportunity to achieve her fiftieth victory of the season and retired to the semi-finals for the third session in a row, after she had previously been eliminated from the third round of Wimbledon and quarter-finals of the Warsaw tournament.
Šviontik’s exit from the third round of the tournament in Toronto came just weeks before the start of the American Flushing Meadows Championship, scheduled for August 29 to September 11, as this time the polka wanted to go far after her career ended in the second round. . round in 2019 and third in 2020
Fourth in 2021.
Source: agencies