{"id":763481,"date":"2026-06-26T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763481\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:24:11","slug":"auger-aliassime-draws-shevchenko-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763481\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime draws Shevchenko at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime reacts during the quarterfinal tennis match against Italy’s Flavio Cobolli at the French Open in Paris earlier this month.Emma Da Silva\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Third-seeded Canadian F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime will open against Alexander Shevchenko of Kazakhstan in the first round at Wimbledon after the draw was released Friday.<\/p>\n

The Montreal native is ranked fourth in the world and is coming off a quarterfinal appearance at the ATP 500 grass-court event in Halle, Germany, where he lost to eventual champion Frances Tiafoe.<\/p>\n

Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., will face Spain\u2019s Pablo Carreno Busta, while Gabriel Diallo, of Montreal, takes on France\u2019s Benjamin Bonzi.<\/p>\n

On the women\u2019s side, 22nd-seeded Leylah Fernandez, of Laval, Que., opens against Indonesia\u2019s Julia Tjen, while qualifier Bianca Andreescu, of Mississauga, Ont., faces China\u2019s Shuai Zhang.<\/p>\n

In women\u2019s doubles, the second-seeded duo of Gabriela Dabrowski, of Ottawa, and Brazil\u2019s Luisa Stefani will meet Poland\u2019s Alicja Rosolska and Chile\u2019s Alexa Guarachi in the opening round, while Fernandez and Kazakhstan\u2019s Yulia Putintseva will face Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan and Serbia\u2019s Aleksandra Krunic.<\/p>\n

The tournament begins Monday at the All England Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime reacts during the quarterfinal tennis match against Italy’s Flavio Cobolli…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763482,"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-763481","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\/763481","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=763481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}