Naomi Osaka will return to the top of the women’s tennis world rankings despite losing to Serena Williams in the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup.
Williams beat Osaka 6-3 6-4 to set up a semi-final against Marie Bouzkova.
But Osaka’s number one status was confirmed after Karolina Pliskova lost 6-0 2-6 6-4 to Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu in Toronto.
Pliskova, number one for eight weeks in 2017, needed to win the tournament to regain top spot. Read more