{"id":30469,"date":"2025-07-28T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30469\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:16:07","slug":"canadians-kayla-cross-ariana-arseneault-out-in-first-round-at-national-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30469\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Kayla Cross, Ariana Arseneault out in first round at National Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kayla Cross dropped her first round match against Kamilla Rakhimova, of Russia, at the National Bank Open in Montreal on Monday.Graham Hughes\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Kayla Cross and Ariana Arseneault are out of the National Bank Open after the first round.<\/p>\n

Cross let a one-set lead slip away in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 loss to Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old from London, Ont., who\u2019s ranked 151st in the world, fell to the 62nd-ranked Rakhimova in one hour 55 minutes on the hard court at IGA Stadium. It was their first career meeting on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n

Rakhimova will face Ukraine\u2019s Elina Svitolina, the 10th seed, in the second round. The top 32 seeds received a first-round bye at the WTA 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n

Later in the afternoon, Arseneault of Richmond Hill, Ont., lost 6-4, 6-2 to Japan\u2019s Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n

Osaka, a former world No. 1, meets Russia\u2019s Liudmila Samsonova in the next round.<\/p>\n

After tough start to season, Leylah Fernandez rides momentum into National Bank Open<\/a><\/p>\n

In the evening, local favourite Eugenie Bouchard will begin her final run in professional tennis against Colombia\u2019s Emiliana Arango. The 31-year-old Bouchard, a former world No. 5, recently announced she would retire after her hometown event.<\/p>\n

Carson Branstine, who grew up in California but represents Canada through family ties in Toronto, takes on Greece\u2019s Maria Sakkari in the final match of the night.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s Victoria Mboko, Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., and Vancouver\u2019s Rebecca Marino advanced to the second round with wins Sunday.<\/p>\n

Andreescu\u2019s status for the remainder of the tournament is unclear after hurting her left ankle on match point Sunday night against Czechia\u2019s Barbora Krejcikova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Kayla Cross dropped her first round match against Kamilla Rakhimova, of Russia, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-30469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469","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=30469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}