The weekend’s top shots from the Canadian tennis tournament, leading up to today’s finals
Venus Williams is all smiles and handing out towels to the crowd after winning here semi final match versus her sister, Serena Williams at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on August 9th, 2014.
(Photograph by Will Lew)
It wasn’t meant to be for our hometown star: Thornhill, Ont.’s Milos Raonic was ousted by Spain’s Feliciano Lopez in the quarterfinals, not too long after Eugenie Bouchard was eliminated in an early-round upset, before the tournament really got underway. But as the weekend moved on into its final match-ups, the Rogers Cup presented many more story lines, including a pitched battle between the Williams sisters and the continued, meteoric rise of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who has shocked by upsetting three consecutive top-10 ranked players in a row. The tournament ends today, with the men’s finals pitting Tsonga against Roger Federer, the elegant eminence; Venus Williams takes on Agnieszka Radwanska for the women’s crown.