Canadian Open 2025 Quarterfinals: Heated US vs Russia match

VHO - The eight best players have made it to the quarterfinals, where two highly anticipated clashes between American and Russian players will take place.

As the only unseeded player to qualify for the fourth round of the 2025 Canadian Open, Learner Tien was expected to continue his progress. However, the American player whose father and mother are both of Vietnamese descent could not create a surprise against a higher-rated opponent.

In a rematch with Alex Michelsen, Tien's close friend who won the semi-finals of the Next Gen ATP Finals 2024 but lost in Houston in April, the player currently ranked 61st in the ATP played with great determination. However, making too many unforced errors and double faults caused the 2005-born boy to lose quite quickly after 2 sets with the same score of 3-6.

Michelsen's opponent will be 11th seed Karen Khachanov. In all aspects, the young American player is still considered the underdog. However, it should be remembered that in the third round of the Australian Open earlier this year, Michelsen himself had defeated his senior from the land of white birch with a score of 3-0 (6-3, 7-6, 6-2).

Therefore, the upcoming match promises to be very unpredictable. In addition to the above match, the quarter-finals also witnessed another notable match between the US and Russia. That is the fierce competition between No. 2 seed Taylor Fritz and No. 6 candidate Andrey Rublev.

To reach the quarterfinals, Fritz went through a physical marathon lasting nearly 3 hours with Jiri Lehecka. In all 3 sets, the two players had to decide the winner in a tie-break series and the American player showed more courage to win 7-5 in the deciding "shootout".

For his part, Rublev also experienced very tense moments in the match with Davidovich Fokina. It was only thanks to the decision of the 20th seed from Spain to retire in the third set, when he was trailing 0-3, that Rublev was able to continue. Before that, both players had tied 1-1 after the tie-break series.

In the past, Fritz had a better head-to-head record with 5 wins and 4 losses. However, in their most recent encounter, in the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters 2024, Rublev only needed 2 sets (6-4, 6-3) to defeat Fritz, then defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime to win the championship.

Learner Tien failed to surprise his close friend Michelsen.

In the remaining two matches, No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev will face Alexei Popyrin, while No. 4 seed Ben Shelton will face Alex de Minaur (9) for the first time in ATP competition. Zverev will likely have no difficulty reaching the semi-finals because in the previous 3 matches, the German star has won against Popyrin.

In the women's singles, a big surprise happened in the fourth round when the number 1 seed Coco Gauff was unexpectedly eliminated by the host country's wildcard player, Victoria Mboko, in two quick sets: 6-1, 6-4. In the quarterfinals, Mboko's opponent will be Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, a female player who is also not in the seed group.

The above result also means that all five top seeds in the women's singles have been eliminated. Madison Keys (6) will naturally become the most promising candidate.

But the American female tennis player certainly cannot be complacent because her upcoming opponent is Clara Tauson, the 16th seed who has just made a splash with a 2-set victory over the 2nd seed, Iga Swiatek.

The 2025 Canadian Open, the 6th Masters 1000 tournament of the year, will take place from July 27 to August 7 at the Sobeys Tennis Complex in Toronto, Canada. Alexei Popyrin and Jessica Pegula are the defending champions in the men's and women's singles events at the tournament.

In addition to bonus points, players will also receive corresponding prize money for each round. The men's and women's singles champions will receive $1,125,000 and $750,000 respectively.

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