ATP Montreal & WTA Toronto semi-final predictions and tennis betting tips

Free tennis tips, predictions, best bets and analysis for the semi-final matches in the ATP Montreal & WTA Toronto.

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Best bets

Pablo Carreno Busta to win 2-0 v Dan Evans
1pt Evs bet365, Coral, Ladbrokes

Over 21.5 games in Beatriz Haddad Maia v Karolina Pliskova
1pt 4-5 Boylesports

Saturday preview

Red-hot outright favourite Nick Kyrgios crashed out of the ATP Montreal on Friday, blowing the draw wide open as the tournament reaches the semi-final stage.

His conqueror Hubert Hurkacz is the only remaining player in the event to have previously won an ATP Masters title.

But Hurkacz's opponent in the last four is the highest-seeded player left in the tournament, Casper Ruud, who destroyed home talent Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-1 6-2 in his quarter-final.

That semi-final could swing either way and is best left alone so the better bet is Pablo Carreno Busta to defeat the last Briton standing - Dan Evans - in straight sets.

Evans, 32, has exceeded expectations to get to this stage but Carreno Busta is the only player yet to drop a set in Montreal, having swatted aside Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini earlier in the tournament.

This is the Spaniard's third ATP Masters 1000 semi-final and all of them have been on hard courts, so back him to send Evans packing with a straight-sets win.

The WTA Toronto has been equally as engrossing with none of the top six seeds reaching the last four and the match to keep an eye on in the semi-finals is Beatriz Haddad Maia v Karolina Pliskova.

Pliskova was runner-up in last year's Canadian Open when the women's event took place in Montreal and she has shown signs of being able to go one better in Toronto.

That said, Haddad Maia has overcome top seed Iga Swiatek and the powerful Belinda Bencic to reach this stage and rather than side with one player, it may pay to instead back over 21.5 games in their semi-final.

Three of Haddad Maia's four matches at the WTA Toronto have featured at least 22 games and this could be another one which goes the distance.

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