Svitolina battles past Bouzas Maneiro in three-set Toronto opener

Elina Svitolina, the world's ninth-ranked tennis player, advanced to the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto after a hard-fought three-set victory over Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. The match lasted nearly three hours, with Svitolina dropping the first set in a tiebreak before winning the second set in another tiebreak and ultimately securing the third set 6-4. She will next face the winner between Elena-Gabriela Ruse and Anastasia Potapova. Other Ukrainian players had mixed results in Canada, with Marta Kostyuk still competing while Yulia Starodubtseva, Angelina Kalinina, and Oleksandra Oliynykova were eliminated in the first round.