{"id":545482,"date":"2026-03-18T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545482\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:55:07","slug":"canadas-liam-draxl-outlasts-britains-jay-clarke-in-second-round-qualifier-at-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545482\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Liam Draxl outlasts Britain&#8217;s Jay Clarke in second-round qualifier at Miami Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Canada\u2019s Liam Draxl outlasted Britain\u2019s Jay Clarke 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in a second-round qualifying match Wednesday at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Draxl, from Newmarket, Ont., completed the victory in two hours 36 minutes to earn a berth in the main draw of the Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He will play Quentin Halys of France in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriel Diallo, both from Montreal, are also entered in the main draw along with Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Victoria Mboko of Burlington, Ont., and Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., are in the women\u2019s singles draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Competition continues through March 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 18, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Canada\u2019s Liam Draxl outlasted Britain\u2019s Jay Clarke 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in a second-round qualifying match Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-545482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545482","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=545482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}