{"id":819446,"date":"2026-07-22T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:36:20","slug":"canadas-marino-brace-sebov-get-wild-cards-into-national-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819446\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Marino, Brace, Sebov get wild cards into National Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians Rebecca Marino, Katherine Sebov and Cadence Brace have received main-draw wild cards for the 2026 National Bank Open, Tennis Canada announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>They join three previously announced wild cards: American legend Venus Williams and fellow Canadians Bianca Andreescu and Kayla Cross. Two more wild cards will be given out before the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Marino, from Vancouver, will play in her sixth straight Canadian Open. Her best result was a run to the round of 16 in 2021 in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Brace will make her main-draw debut at the tournament, while Sebov will make her second appearance after losing in the first round in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles entry list was also released, featuring Wimbledon finalists Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Luisa Stefani of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked doubles player Katerina Siniakova of Czechia will pair with China&#8217;s Shuai Zhang instead of usual partner Taylor Townsend of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other notable doubles teams include American tandem Coco Gauff and McCartney Kessler, and Belgium&#8217;s Elise Mertens teaming with Russia&#8217;s Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s National Bank Open will take place from Aug. 1-13 at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadians Rebecca Marino, Katherine Sebov and Cadence Brace have received main-draw wild cards for the 2026 National Bank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-819446","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\/819446","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=819446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}