Montreal: 2021 champion Giorgi hammers past Andreescu and into round two
Camila Giorgi won against Bianca Andreescu 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday and will face No 7 seed Petra Kvitova in the next round
In a battle of former Montreal champions, Italy’s Camila Giorgi, the 2021 National Bank Open title winner, stood tall above 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu, sending the hometown favourite home with a disappointing 6-3, 6-2 loss.
The Italian, who came through the qualifying draw, was happy with her third win in a row in Montreal this week. “I think it was a really good match, really good because both players was playing great. I think it was really high-level. So I think it was amazing, the first two matches, and today was I feel even better in the court and how I was moving. So this is my strength, so it’s good,” she said.
Giorgi, ranked No 51 and a qualifier this week in Canada, will face No 7 seed Petra Kvitova next.
Andreescu, coming off a first-round loss in Washington, D.C., where she failed to convert three match points against Marta Kostyuk, had little impact against Giorgi’s power game on Tuesday night.
Giorgi improves to 1-1 lifetime against Andreescu and 10-4 lifetime at the National Bank Open.
Montreal WTA 1000, other first-round results (Stade IGA, hard, USD 2,788,468):
- Petra Martic beat Cristina Bucsa (LL): 6-0, 6-4
- Marketa Vondrousova (9) beat Mayar Sherif: 6-4, 6-2
- Qinwen Zheng beat Marta Kostyuk: 6-2, 1-6, 6-3
- Anna Blinkova beat Shuai Zhang: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Leylah Fernandez (WC) beat Peyton Stearns (Q): 6-3, 6-2
- Beatriz Haddad Maia (11) beat Magdalena Frech (LL): 6-4, 6-2
- Yulia Putintseva (LL) beat Bernarda Pera: 6-3, 6-4
- Karolina Muchova (14) beat Anastasia Potapova: 7-6 (4), 6-2
- Daria Kasatkina (10) beat Elise Mertens: 6-4, 6-2
- Caroline Wozniacki (WC) beat Kimberly Birrell (Q): 6-2, 6-2
- Liudmila Samsonova (15) beat Katerina Siniakova: 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Danielle Collins (Q) beat Elina Svitolina: 6-2, 6-2
- Alycia Parks (Q) beat Lauren Davis: 7-5, 4-6, 6-2
- Katie Boulter (Q) beat Rebecca Marino (WC): 6-3, 6-1
- Sloane Stephens beat Anhelina Kalinina: 6-4, 7-6 (2)
- Jennifer Brady beat Jelena Ostapenko: 7-6 (7), 0-6, 7-6 (8)
- Madison Keys (13) beat Venus Williams (WC): 6-2, 7-5
- Belinda Bencic (12) beat Lucia Bronzetti: 6-2, 6-3
- Sorana Cirstea beat Varvara Gracheva: 6-4, 7-6 (3)
- Victoria Azarenka (16) beat Magda Linette: 6-3, 6-0
- Marie Bouzkova beat Kayla Day (Q): 7-6 (1), 6-3
- Jasmine Paolini beat Donna Vekic: 7-6 (3), 6-2
- Karolina Pliskova beat Lin Zhu: 6-3, 6-7 (8), 6-2