On Wednesday in the second round of 2022 Citi Open, Camila Giorgi of Italy will face Elise Mertens of Belgium.
Camila Giorgi defeated 2021 US Open winner Emma Raducanu, 7-6, 6-2, by recovering from break deficits four times in the first set and once in the second. With 12 of her last 18 events ending in the first round, she would be relieved to have gotten off to a winning start in the defence of her title. She defeated players in the top 40 in each of the six rounds to win this Canadian 1000 tournament last year, which seemed to come out of nowhere. The next 12 months were a complete disaster for the Italian, who, for example, has only advanced through the second round a total of four times this year.
With nearly the same score as the Italian, Elise Mertens won her first-round match. Despite blowing a 5-1 lead in the first set, she defeated Anna Bondar 7-6, 6-1, in an hour and a half, earning just her sixth successful victory over a top-60 player in 2022. (6-9). When she made her National Bank Open debut four years ago, she advanced as far as the quarterfinal, defeating Aryna Sabalenka and Eugenie Bouchard in the Quebecois capital. The subsequent two visits—a second round in Toronto in 2019 and a first round in Montreal in 2018—have gone without incident.
Elise Mertens and Camila Giorgi are scheduled to face one another in the second round of the 2022 Canadian Open on Wednesday, August 10. The tournament is scheduled to run from August 8 till August 15.
The 2022 edition of the Canadian Open is set to begin from August 8 and go on until August 15. The men’s final is scheduled to be on August 15 and the women’s one is set to be held on August 14. There will be six rounds of play in the main draw excluding the qualifiers.
Competition Stage | Date |
Round of 64 | August 8 |
Round of 32 | August 10 |
Round of 16 | August 11 |
Quarter-final | August 12 |
Semi-final | August 13 |
Final | August 14 (Women’s), August 15 (Men’s) |
Player | Seed |
Iga Swiatek | 1 |
Anett Kontaveit | 2 |
Maria Sakkari | 3 |
Paula Badosa | 4 |
Ons Jabeur | 5 |
Aryna Sabalenka | 6 |
Jessica Pegula | 7 |
Garbine Muguruza | 8 |
Country | Where to watch |
Australia | beIN Sports |
Canada | TSN/Sportsnet/TVA Sports |
India | Voot/Sports18 |
UK | Amazon Prime Video |
US | Tennis Channel |