The 6-foot-8 right-hander from Montreal finished off Gigante in 1 hour, 46 minutes in the rain-interrupted match.<\/p>\n
Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n Diallo saved two set points at 2-5 before breaking back and eventually forcing a tiebreaker. Gigante took a 5-3 lead, then dropped the last four points, double-faulting on match point.<\/p>\n “Tennis is sometimes pretty crazy with the momentum switches that you see throughout a match,” Diallo said.<\/p>\n Diallo won his first ATP Tour title last month in the Netherlands. He’ll face second-seeded Taylor Fritz<\/a> of the United States, a 7-5, 7-6 (1) winner over Roberto Carballes Baena<\/a> of Spain in a rain-delayed night match.<\/p>\n In other second-round matches, fourth-seeded American Ben Shelton<\/a> beat French qualifier Adrian Mannarino<\/a> 6-2, 6-3, and sixth-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev<\/a> topped Hugo Gaston<\/a> of France 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 30, 2025, 08:00 PM ET TORONTO — Towering Canadian Gabriel Diallo beat Matteo Gigante of Italy 6-3,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-36846","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\/36846","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=36846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1522490_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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