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The top four seeds were on the stadium court in Friday.

But as they’re in the third round, on paper they should be player seeds. But only No. 14 Diana Shnaider made the date with the top guns.

In fact, only two of the eight matches are seed vs. seed.

But six of the top eighth seeds were still alive. Only half made it through.

And there were two seeded retirements.

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National Bank Open
Location: Toronto, Canada
Category: WTA 1000 (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Surface: Hard Court
Dates: Aug. 4 – 12 2024
Prize money: $2922,5731
Draws: S56 – D28

Friday, Aug. 9, 2024
Final results

Singles, third round

Retirements

[PR] Amanda Anisimova (USA) def [10] Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) 62 retd

Peyton Stearns (USA) def [12] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 64 42 retd 

Upsets

[14] Diana Shnaider (RUS) def [1] Coco Gauff (USA) 64 61

[LL] Taylor Townsend (USA) def [4] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 62 61

Elise Mertens (BEL) def [6] Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) 62 64

Seeds advancing

[2] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def Katie Boulter (GBR) 63 63

[3] Jessica Pegula (USA) def. [Q] Ashlyn Krueger (USA) 62 64

[8] Emma Navarro (USA) def. [11] Marta Kostyuk (UKR) 75 75

Doubles, quarterfinals

[3] Caroline Dolehide / Desirae Krawczyk (USA) def. Giuliana Olmos (MEX) / Jessica Pegula (USA) 76 (5) 76 (6)

[7] Sofia Kenin / Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) def Jiang Xinyu / Wu Fang-Hsien (TPE) 46 76 (8) [10-1]

Doubles, second round 

[1] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) vs. Magda Linette (POL) / Peyton Stearns (USA) 67 (0) 76 (3) [10-5]

Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) / Zhang Shuai (CHN) def [4] Elise Mertens (BEL) / Asia Muhammad (USA) 60 64

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