{"id":806449,"date":"2026-07-16T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806449\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:15:12","slug":"wimbledon-breakout-star-fery-headlines-qualifying-for-mens-nbo-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806449\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon breakout star Fery headlines qualifying for men&#8217;s NBO tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon breakout star Arthur Fery will headline the qualifying tournament for the men&#8217;s National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>Fery, who was born in France but represents Britain, advanced to the semifinals of the grass-court Grand Slam after being awarded a wild-card berth in the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>He climbed 78 spots in the ATP rankings to a high of No. 36 after his run at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Alexei Popyrin, who won the title in 2024, is also among the names announced Thursday for the one-day qualifying tournament Aug. 1 in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the qualifying round, where 32 players will compete for 16 spots, will be held July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Main draw action at the ATP 1000 event begins Aug. 2 in Montreal, with seeded players starting play Aug. 4.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon breakout star Arthur Fery will headline the qualifying tournament for the men&#8217;s National Bank Open. Fery, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-806449","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\/806449","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=806449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}