{"id":30416,"date":"2025-07-29T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30416\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:55:08","slug":"tennis-tracker-rune-in-toronto-action-fernandez-takes-on-joint-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30416\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Tracker: Rune in Toronto action, Fernandez takes on Joint in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day of first-round action at the Canadian Open, with plenty of notable names taking to the court at the ATP event in Toronto and the WTA tournament in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>18:22 CET &#8211;\u00a0Navarro&#8217;s win was closely followed by another dominant display as Australian number one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/kasatkina-daria\/GU42elks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daria Kasatkina<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/blinkova-anna\/f1PZMn7P\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anna Blinkova<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/GKjr7S2K\/#\/match-summary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">6-1, 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>18:15 CET &#8211; The first winner of the day comes from Montreal and world number 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/marino-rebecca\/Wd9dyI7m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emma Navarro<\/a>, who has wasted no time in beating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/marino-rebecca\/Wd9dyI7m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rebecca Marino<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/vaL06W2U\/#\/match-summary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">6-1, 6-2<\/a> to progress.<\/p>\n<p>14:30 CET &#8211; Over to the ATP tour and Toronto, there is a fascinating match to look forward to early evening between rising star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/mpetshi-perricard-giovanni\/ITe9m2F8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> and fifth seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/rune-holger\/2kRS8swG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Holger Rune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Mpetshi Perricard has been making his name for himself in the last year or so, Rune has been struggling with form and fitness in a challenging spell in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"wcl-image_MVcAW\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7a4c129a-6a7b-4260-b822-d8032f0aff2a.jpg\" alt=\"Rune's recent run of results\" title=\"Rune's recent run of results\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>Rune&#8217;s recent run of resultsFlashscore<\/p>\n<p>Also in action in Toronto tonight are third seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/musetti-lorenzo\/xtH2ODVI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, Casper Ruud, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/medvedev-daniil\/O8qG0Nhb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and number one seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/zverev-alexander\/dGbUhw9m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexander Zverev.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/tennis\/atp-singles\/toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow it all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>14:00 CET &#8211; With lots of exciting matchups to look forward to, let&#8217;s take a look at the must-see encounters this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First up in Montreal today (with action getting underway from 17:00 CET), world number 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/navarro-emma\/WxLdKcAs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emma Navarro<\/a> takes on home favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/marino-rebecca\/Wd9dyI7m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rebecca Marino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is followed by another home favourite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/fernandez-leylah-annie\/8EI3pJOd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a>, who is full of confidence after winning her first title on the WTA tour since 2023 in Washington last week, against the exciting Aussie teenager Maya Joint.<\/p>\n<p>Other big names in Montreal action are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/vondrousova-marketa\/EgKYrSR5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marketa Vondrusova<\/a>, Mirra Andreeva and Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/tennis\/wta-singles\/montreal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow all the action from Montreal today here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>13:00 CET &#8211; Hello and welcome back to another busy day of action from Toronto and Montreal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a busy day of first-round action at the Canadian Open, with plenty of notable names taking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-30416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}