Aug 2 (Reuters) \u2013 Rain disrupted tennis tournaments across North America on Sunday, delaying the Washington Open women\u2019s \u200bfinal between American Jessica Pegula \u200cand the Philippines\u2019 Alexandra Eala, cancelling the evening session at the Canadian Open in Montreal and halting play in Toronto.<\/p>\n
Pegula had taken \u200cthe \u200bopening set 6-4 against \u2060Eala in Washington, \u2060but the final was suspended with Eala leading 2-1 in the second set. The match had already been \u200bdelayed by three hours before it began.<\/p>\n
Weather conditions also affected the Canadian \u2060Open events, with \u2060the women\u2019s tournament taking place \u200bin Toronto and the men\u2019s event in \u200bMontreal.<\/p>\n
In Toronto, play on the Grandstand \u200ccourt was suspended during the match between Poland\u2019s Magdalena Frech and France\u2019s Leolia Jeanjean.<\/p>\n
In Montreal, organizers cancelled all ongoing \u2060and remaining matches in the day session because of current and forecast weather conditions before \u2060calling \u200coff the night session.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe August \u20602nd evening session (Session 3) has \u200bbeen \u200ccancelled. Please note that \u200bour ticketing \u2060team will contact ticket holders shortly to present the options available to them,\u201d organisers said on social media.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Angelica Medina in Mexico City; Editing by \u200bLincoln Feast.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 2 (Reuters) \u2013 Rain disrupted tennis tournaments across North America on Sunday, delaying the Washington Open women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-840983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840983","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=840983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}