WTA 1000 Rogers Cup Montréal 7/27 - 8/7 2025

[ti-amie]

I've been looking and so far haven't found video of the very bad call against Canadian Carson Branstine during the third set of her match vs Sakkari. She wasn't allowed/couldn't register a challenge according to the comm because you can't argue with a machine.

The official reason was that she hit the ball but if I remember it correctly she didn't put it in play.

[ti-amie]

Apparently yesterday was a mess. A fan posted this on the big WTA fan site. When the players are ignoring the ELC there's a huge problem.

Obviously nobody who has posted in this thread watched Cirstea v Sun yesterday. Cirstea served an "ace" down the middle in the first game, which umpire Aline Rocha entered into the system because there was no "fault" call, only to see both players agree that it WAS a fault and for Cirstea to serve again (she won the great rally on her second serve anyway).

[ashkor87]

Too many mistakes by the electronic line calling system...why not compromise by going with the electronic system but empower the umpire to correct/overrule an obvious error...that would not require rehiring of dozens of people, and the umpire is anyway sitting there...

[ti-amie]

This third set between Gauff and Collins has been a war. Gauff is up 5-4 now but was up 4-2 earlier.

[ashkor87]

Japanese qualifier Aoi Ito drew Jasmine Paolini into her web of forehand slices and unpredictable shot selection to pull off a comeback from match point down in the Omnium Banque Nationale second round, posting her first career Top 10 win. https://www.wtatennis.com/news/4328120/ ... n-montreal

If this is how it went, a good coach could certainly have saved Paolini..by reminding her again and again not to panic, not to press too hard...

[ti-amie]

Gauff wins the war 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2) over Collins who served for the match. Gauff had 74 unforced errors to Collins 80 in the 2h54m match.

[ti-amie]

The 18 year old Victoria Mboko will play Sofia Kenin next.

[ponchi101]

Coaches take too much credit, and take too much blame.
Paolini is a 27 year old veteran. If she still needs to be reminded not to panic, it is not the coaches. Especially for a top 10 player that has gone very deep at slams.

[ponchi101]

Too many mistakes by the electronic line calling system...why not compromise by going with the electronic system but empower the umpire to correct/overrule an obvious error...that would not require rehiring of dozens of people, and the umpire is anyway sitting there...

Sooner or later this is going to happen on a huge point of a match. Set point or Match point. It will then be played over and over on TV and social media. And it will not be funny.

[JTContinental]

Paolini is just coming back down to earth. There was a lot of favorable draws that took her to those slam finals—she only played one seed before the FO final and it was a reeling Rybakina, and then only Keys (who retired in their match) and Emma Navarro before the Wimbledon final.

[JTContinental]

Apparently yesterday was a mess. A fan posted this on the big WTA fan site. When the players are ignoring the ELC there's a huge problem.

Obviously nobody who has posted in this thread watched Cirstea v Sun yesterday. Cirstea served an "ace" down the middle in the first game, which umpire Aline Rocha entered into the system because there was no "fault" call, only to see both players agree that it WAS a fault and for Cirstea to serve again (she won the great rally on her second serve anyway).

This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

[skatingfan]

This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

That's very unfortunate - Tennis Canada may not be able to hang on to the event for much longer.

[ashkor87]

interesting matchups tomorrow - Osaka vs Samsonova, Pegula vs Sakkari..I dont expect Pegula to lose but Osaka might - Samsonova is very formidable on a slow-medium court like this..she has as much power as Osaka, will that be enough? we shall find out.

[JTContinental]

This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

That's very unfortunate - Tennis Canada may not be able to hang on to the event for much longer.

Yes, it sounds like because of its location in a very busy section of the city, remodeling isn’t really in the cards. There was a brief window during the pandemic where changes could have been made, but nothing happened.

https://tennisuptodate.com/tennis-news ... n-montreal

I also read somewhere else that there are only 4 courts of enough quality to play professional tennis on and players have to navigate through an annoying series of chain link fences just to get to them, but have not verified.

[skatingfan]

This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

That's very unfortunate - Tennis Canada may not be able to hang on to the event for much longer.

Yes, it sounds like because of its location in a very busy section of the city, remodeling isn’t really in the cards. There was a brief window during the pandemic where changes could have been made, but nothing happened.

https://tennisuptodate.com/tennis-news ... n-montreal

I also read somewhere else that there are only 4 courts of enough quality to play professional tennis on and players have to navigate through an annoying series of chain link fences just to get to them, but have not verified.

Having spent a fair amount of time in the venue I think the chain link fence thing is an exaggeration. Many tennis courts have chainlink around them, but the venue being crampt by the surrounding park is true. Toronto has the same problem. The problem for both sites is that Tennis Canada will never have the money that the private investors that own most of the other 1000 events have to spend on the type of upgrades required.