{"id":842600,"date":"2026-08-02T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:06:01","slug":"leylah-fernandez-faces-tough-draw-at-national-bank-open-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842600\/","title":{"rendered":"Leylah Fernandez faces tough draw at National Bank Open in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez will face a tough test if she advances at the National Bank Open in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The No. 30 seed from Laval, Que., has an opening-round bye and will play either Mexico’s Renata Zarazua or Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch in her first match following Friday’s draw for the women’s bracket.<\/p>\n

Fernandez could then face a potential Round of 32 meeting with No. 5 seed Mirra Andreeva of Russia.<\/p>\n

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus tops the draw, with second seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, two-time champion Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff, both of the United States, along with Poland’s Iga Swiatek among the favourites.<\/p>\n

Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont. \u2014 the 2019 NBO champion \u2014 opens against Czechia’s Nikola Bartunkova, while wild-card Venus Williams of the U.S drew Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova. The 46-year-old Williams owns seven Grand Slam singles titles, but has never captured the Canadian crown.<\/p>\n

Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino, London’s Kayla Cross, Toronto’s Cadence Brace and Richmond Hill, Ont., natives Ariana Arseneault and Carol Zhao round out the Canadian singles entries.<\/p>\n

Qualifying begins Saturday, with main-draw play scheduled to start Sunday. Defending champion Victoria Mboko will miss the tournament because of a knee injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-842600","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\/842600","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=842600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}