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The 19-year-old dispatched Bertens, a nine-time
tour winner from the Netherlands and the World No. 5, 6-1, 6-7
(7), 6-4 for her fifth win over a Top 10 player this year and
third over a Top 5 player.
Andreescu cruised through the first set and had match point in
the second set, but Bertens fought back to win in a tiebreak.
In the third set, with Bertens serving at 4-5, Andreescu won on
her fourth match point when Bertens double-faulted for the 10th
time on the day. The match lasted two hours and 33 minutes.
Next up for Andreescu will be No. 3 seed Karolina Pliskova, who
moved into the quarterfinal by beating Anett Kontaveit of
Estonia 6-2, 7-5.
Pliskova, a 27-year-old Czech, survived a three-set, two-hour
match against Alison Riske on Wednesday but had an easier time
with Kontaveit, closing out the match in one hour and 18
minutes.
"Well, for sure (my game is) better than it was maybe
yesterday," Pliskova told reporters. "So I guess it's going to
get better every day with what I play. And I always was, I am,
improving with matches, which I have.
"I played some doubles here. I still have doubles today. So I
guess that everything helped. And I was practicing quite a lot,
but still matches is different. I mean, yesterday was not
perfect, but it was not bad for first match on hard court. Today
much better."
This will be the first meeting between Pliskova and Andreescu.
"Andreescu, we never played, not even practice, not even
anything. So I just saw her a little bit on TV," Pliskova said.
"So it would be interesting, of course challenging, to play her
here in Canada."
Kontaveit got up an early break point against Pliskova, who
fought back to even the match, then broke serve at 5-3 to win
the first set. In the second set, Pliskova converted her fourth
break-point opportunity in the 11th game to go up 6-5, then
served out the set for the win.
In other action Thursday, No. 6 seed Elina Svitolina of Ukraine
topped Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-2, 6-4. American Sofia
Kenin, who eliminated World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty earlier in the
week, defeated Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska 6-2, 6-2 to move into
the quarterfinals.
--Field Level Media
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