{"id":852166,"date":"2026-08-12T03:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:36:18","slug":"gauff-into-toronto-sf-with-walkover-from-bencic-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852166\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauff Into Toronto SF with Walkover from Bencic \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Photo credit: Shaun Brooks\/CameraSport<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff took a walkover into the Toronto semifinals tonight.<\/p>\n

A hip injury forced Belinda Bencic, Gauff\u2019s scheduled quarterfinal opponent, to withdraw from the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n

The 2015 tournament champion Bencic beat Washington, DC champion Alexandrea Eala 6-4, 6-0 to return to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Former Olympic gold-medal champion Bencic played that match with taping wrapping her leg.<\/p>\n

Tennis Express<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am really sorry to not be able to compete tonight,\u201d Bencic said in a statement. \u201cThis is amazing tournament, and I was really looking forward to playing in front of the great fans here in Toronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried everything possible to be ready for tonight. Looking forward to being back in Toronto next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fourth-seeded Gauff advanced to her maiden Toronto semifinal.<\/p>\n

Two-time Grand Slam champion Gauff will face either four-time major champion Naomi Osaka or reigning Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina for a spot in the final.<\/p>\n

Richard Pagliaro. Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer\/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, August 11, 2026Photo credit: Shaun Brooks\/CameraSport Coco Gauff took a walkover into the Toronto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-852166","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\/852166","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=852166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}