{"id":847446,"date":"2026-08-08T01:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847446\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:58:24","slug":"kiwis-defeat-seeds-at-tennis-masters-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847446\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwis defeat seeds at tennis Masters, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2a9e9c_eea8facc2bec4543937ccdb84bf7857b~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"Erin Routliffe (right) and Aldila Sutjiadi have scored a first round win at the Toronto Masters PHOTO: WASHINGTON WTA \" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.nzsportswire.com\/post\/kiwis-beaten-seeds-at-tennis-masters-canada\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/2a9e9c_eea8facc2bec4543937ccdb84bf7857b~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1200,h_675,al_c,q_85\/2a9e9c_eea8facc2bec4543937ccdb84bf7857b~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erin Routliffe (right) and Aldila Sutjiadi have scored a first round win at the Toronto Masters PHOTO: WASHINGTON WTA <\/p>\n<p class=\"_8C1-J ZH-gN JP8V2 QncKy\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-xrecu18\" tabindex=\"-1\">Success for New Zealand tennis players at ATP and WTA tournaments in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_8C1-J ZH-gN JP8V2 QncKy\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-oa2c84\" tabindex=\"-1\">Michael Venus and Indian doubles partner Yuki Bhambri have won their first round match over the fifth seeds at the Montreal Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_8C1-J ZH-gN JP8V2 QncKy\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-o14ti7\" tabindex=\"-1\">They beat American Christian Harrison and Brit Neal Skupski 6-7(9), 6-4, (10-8).<\/p>\n<p class=\"_8C1-J ZH-gN JP8V2 QncKy\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-96f1710\" tabindex=\"-1\">Meanwhile Erin Routliffe and Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi have beaten the fourth seeds in three sets at the Toronto Masters women&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_8C1-J ZH-gN JP8V2 QncKy\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-hkgpy13\" tabindex=\"-1\">The 6-3, 6-7(4), 10-5 win was over the experienced pair of Guo-Han-yu from China and Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_8C1-J ZH-gN JP8V2 QncKy\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-955hc16\" tabindex=\"-1\">Routliffe and Sutjiadi won the title at Washington last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erin Routliffe (right) and Aldila Sutjiadi have scored a first round win at the Toronto Masters PHOTO: WASHINGTON&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-847446","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\/847446","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=847446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}