Marie Bouzkova led, 7-5, 1-0, when the American decided she could no longer play on with the injury she sustained in their first set on Tuesday in Cincinnati.

The 23-time major champ thrived under pressure to advance in straight sets, while the incoming Wimbledon winner battled for more than three hours to outlast Marie Bouzkova at the National Bank Open.

Meanwhile, Alex De Minaur and Marie Bouzkova leveraged good Wimbledon runs for their first titles of 2022—and Caroline Garcia backed up her Warsaw upset over Iga Swiatek with another trophy.

The 19-year-old is just the eighth man to reach the Top 4 as a teenager since the ATP rankings began in 1973.

The 24-year-old didn't need to hit a single winner in her 6-0, 6-3 rout of Anastasia Potapova, as she became the fifth Czech champion in tournament history.

The seventh-seeded Russian has marched to her second WTA final of the season at the Prague Open after defeating Qiang Wang 6-3, 6-0.

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The former junior US Open champion stormed into her first major quarterfinal, where she pushed Ons Jabeur to three sets.

After dropping the opening set on Centre Court, the 27-year-old Tunisian took control of the match to rally past Bouzkova 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 and reach the Wimbledon last four.

Both women endured bouts with the novel coronavirus that nearly derailed their respective seasons.