Venus eclipsed in Montreal cull
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VENUS Williams tumbled out in the third round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Thursday, suffering an upset loss to Madison Keys in her final tournament before the Olympics.
The sixth-seeded Williams was beaten 1-6, 7-6 (2), 3-6 by fellow American and 10th seed Keys, who will now face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals.
Williams, 36, looked well below her best as Keys raced away with the first set before forging a 3-1 lead in the second.
However, Williams, who reached the final of last week’s tournament in Stanford, rallied to level with victory in the second-set tiebreak.
But Keys raised her game in the decisive third set and quickly broke Williams to gain the advantage before converting match point with an ace to seal the win.
Pavlyuchenkova earlier scored the biggest upset of the day by beating 2014 champion and fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1.
Elsewhere, fifth seed Simona Halep breezed into the last eight, needing just 68 minutes to claim a 6-3, 6-3 win over 14th-ranked Czech Karolina Pliskova.
Romanian Halep will face ninth-ranked Svetlana Kuznetsova next. The Russian defeated 12th seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 7-6 (2), 6-3.
In another Russian victory, Daria Kasatkina knocked out seventh-ranked Italian Roberta Vinci, 7-5, 6-3.
In Toronto, top seed Novak Djokovic breezed into the quarterfinals as the Rogers Cup continued pretty much according to script on Thursday.
Serbia’s Djokovic beat Czech qualifier Radek Stepanek 6-2, 6-4 in a friendly encounter, during which both players repeatedly hammed it up for the crowd.
Stepanek, at 37 the oldest player in the field, broke serve in the first game of the second set but it was merely a stay of execution against the world No. 1.
Djokovic is the only member of the so-called “big four” competing in Toronto, with last year’s champion Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal all absent from the US$4.7 million event.
In a tournament so far devoid of major upsets, the top five seeds advanced, with Swiss Stan Wawrinka, Japanese Kei Nishikori, Canadian Milos Raonic and Czech Tomas Berdych into the last eight.
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