Aug 2 (Reuters) – Rain \u2060disrupted tennis tournaments across North America on \u2060Sunday, delaying the Washington Open women’s final \u200cbetween American Jessica Pegula and the Philippines’ Alexandra Eala, cancelling the evening session at the Canadian Open in Montreal \u200band halting play in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Pegula \u2060had taken the opening \u2060set 6-4 against Eala in Washington, but the \u2060final \u200cwas suspended with Eala leading 2-1 in the second set. The match \u2060had already been delayed by three hours \u200bbefore it \u200cbegan.<\/p>\n
Weather conditions also affected the Canadian Open events, \u2060with the \u200bwomen’s tournament taking place in Toronto and the men’s event in Montreal.<\/p>\n
In Toronto, play on the \u2060Grandstand court was suspended during \u200bthe match between Poland’s Magdalena Frech and France’s Leolia Jeanjean.<\/p>\n
In Montreal, organizers cancelled all ongoing and remaining \u2060matches in the day session because of current and forecast weather conditions before calling off the night session.<\/p>\n
“The August 2nd evening session (Session 3) \u200bhas been cancelled. Please note \u2060that our ticketing team will contact ticket holders \u200bshortly to present the options \u200cavailable to them,” organisers \u200bsaid on social media.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Angelica Medina in Mexico City; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 2 (Reuters) – Rain \u2060disrupted tennis tournaments across North America on \u2060Sunday, delaying the Washington Open women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6675,85,747],"class_list":["post-840846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-na","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840846","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=840846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}