{"id":843539,"date":"2026-08-03T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:24:12","slug":"montreal-day-2-recap-served-up-by-iga-start-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843539\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Day 2 Recap Served Up by IGA: Start of\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Mother Nature, there wasn\u2019t a lot of tennis played in Montreal on Sunday, but the rain didn\u2019t stop fans, players and special guests from having a great time around the site to wrap up IGA Family Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Two first-round matches were completed with Spaniard Jaume Munar defeating Aussie Rinky Hijikata and Juncheng Shang of China getting the better of Paraguay\u2019s Adolfo Daniel Vallejo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FM-Mini-Tennis-Fonesca-0567.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Off the court, Flavio Cobolli did yoga with fans, Joao Fonseca played mini tennis with kids, and Alexander Blockx spent time with the National Bank Little Aces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalbankopen.com\/news\/read\/2026\/motivation-still-high-zverev-montreal-after-winning-first-grand-slam-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Motivation still high for Zverev in Montreal after winning first Grand Slam title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, K-pop music made its debut at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers with an entertaining show that added some sunshine on a rainy day, and DJ Antonin had everyone dancing, making sure to keep the spirit of Teen Night alive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FM-K-Pop-0722.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Olympians Dana\u00e9 Blais, Florence Brunelle, Jordan Pierre-Gilles, and Courtney Sarault were also enjoyed their day at IGA Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s order of play is jam-packed with 27 first-round matches on the schedule featuring the likes of Gabriel Diallo, Alexis Galarneau, Jack Draper, Matteo Berrettini, Gael Monfils, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Marin Cilic taking centre stage.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos: Tennis Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Mother Nature, there wasn\u2019t a lot of tennis played in Montreal on Sunday, but the rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-843539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843539","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=843539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}