Pegula defeats Gauff in all-American matchup, advances to semi-finals at NBO
American Jessica Pegula got the best of doubles partner Coco Gauff, winning 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in singles play on Friday to advance to the National Bank Open semi-finals for a third straight year.
Gauff, the sixth seed who won the Citi DC Open on Sunday before flying to Montreal, managed to turn things around in the second. Pegula and Gauff, who make up the world No. 1 duo in doubles, were to take on seventh seeds Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara of Japan in the quarter-finals. Later Friday, Liudmila Samsonova of Russia and Belinda Bencic of Switzerland will meet in the quarter-finals after both players won their round of 16 matches.
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