{"id":136561,"date":"2025-09-11T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:48:10","slug":"canada-ready-for-davis-cup-game-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136561\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada ready for Davis Cup game against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HALIFAX \u2014 Gabriel Diallo says playing in an empty venue won\u2019t change much for him as he leads Canada into a Davis Cup tie against Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Diallo says the Canadian men\u2019s tennis team will leave everything on the court regardless of the environment this week in Halifax as it seeks to advance to the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The tie, which takes place Friday and Saturday at Scotiabank Centre, will be played without fans and media present. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That decision was made earlier this week because of what Tennis Canada called \u201cescalating safety concerns\u201d flagged by local authorities and national security agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Activists from several groups say they are planning to protest the matches over Israel\u2019s actions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the war with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Halifax activists are calling on the CBC to cancel its planned livestream of the tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALIFAX \u2014 Gabriel Diallo says playing in an empty venue won\u2019t change much for him as he leads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6763,49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-136561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atlantic","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}