{"id":30054,"date":"2025-07-28T19:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:05:07","slug":"canadas-dan-martin-falls-in-national-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30054\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Dan Martin falls in National Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Dan Martin fell 6-3, 6-0 to Spain\u2019s Jaume Munar in opening-round action at the National Bank Open tennis tournament on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old Martin made it into the main draw as a qualifier after defeating Japan\u2019s Taro Daniel in three sets on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Martin, ranked 560th in the world, went without an ace or a break-point opportunity in Monday\u2019s loss, only winning 40 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Munar, ranked 51st in the world, fired six aces without a double fault in the one-hour, 10-minute match. He also broke on five of his 10 chances while winning 86 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Spaniard will next face 14th-seeded Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Later Monday, Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., plays Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain, and Alexis Galarneau of Laval, Que., is set to face Arthur Rinderknech of France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 28, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Dan Martin fell 6-3, 6-0 to Spain\u2019s Jaume Munar in opening-round action at the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-30054","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\/30054","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=30054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}