{"id":684758,"date":"2026-05-21T19:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:22:13","slug":"canadians-learn-opponents-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684758\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians learn opponents at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Mboko faces a potentially tricky draw in her second career French Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian, seeded ninth, faces world No. 65 Nikola Bartunkova of Czechia in the first round after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/results\/SD?round=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the draw<\/a> for the season&#8217;s second Grand Slam was revealed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Bartunova, 20, reached the third round at this year&#8217;s Australian Open in her Grand Slam debut and advanced to the round of 16 on clay as a lucky loser at the Italian Open earlier this month, replacing an injured Mboko.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko, 19, reached the third round of the French Open in her first career Grand Slam last year.<\/p>\n<p>Leylah Fernandez is the other Canadian in the women&#8217;s draw. Seeded 24th, Fernandez will meet world No. 80 Alycia Parks in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Their career series is tied at 1-1. Fernandez&#8217;s best showing at the French Open was a quarterfinal appearance in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/results\/SM?round=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">men&#8217;s side<\/a>, Felix Auger-Aliassime leads the Canadian crew as the No. 4 seed.<\/p>\n<p>The Montrealer will battle German veteran Daniel Altmaier, the world No. 65, in the first round. Their career series is tied at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>The other two Canadian men are unseeded.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo, ranked 46th, faces world No. 83 James Duckworth of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Shapovalov, ranked 37th, will square off with a qualifier or lucky loser.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alexis Galarneau fell just short of giving Canada four men in the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Galarneau lost 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 to Italy&#8217;s Federico Cina in the final round of qualifying on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The main draw starts Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko faces a potentially tricky draw in her second career French Open. The Canadian, seeded ninth, faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-684758","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\/684758","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=684758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}