{"id":21644,"date":"2025-07-24T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21644\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:14:07","slug":"canadas-gabriel-diallo-ousted-by-ben-shelton-in-3rd-round-of-citi-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21644\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo ousted by Ben Shelton in 3rd round of Citi Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo was ousted in the third round of the Citi Open hardcourt tennis tournament Thursday with a 6-3, 6-2 loss the fourth seed Ben Shelton of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton was nearly unbeatable on serve, firing 16 aces to Diallo&#8217;s five and winning a whopping 86 per cent of total service points.<\/p>\n<p>The American did not face break point while breaking Diallo three times on four chances.<\/p>\n<p>Diallo, seeded 15th in Washington, entered the tournament with a career-high world ranking of No. 35.<\/p>\n<p>He will next play at the National Bank Open in Toronto, where he is seeded 30th and will have a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p>Later Thursday, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., faced top seed Jessica Pegula of the United States in a women&#8217;s third-round match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo was ousted in the third round of the Citi Open hardcourt tennis tournament Thursday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-21644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644","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=21644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}