It was a tough day for the Canadians on centre court in Montreal. <\/p>\n
Canada’s Gabriel Diallo was forced to retire with an apparent leg injury in his second-round match at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
After dropping the first set to Italy’s Luciano Darderi, Diallo had a 3-2 lead in the second set when he decided he could no longer continue. <\/p>\n
Diallo appeared to suffer the injury in the fifth game of the second set, as he came down awkwardly after blowing an ace by Darderi. <\/p>\n
The Montreal native was overcome with emotion as he left the court in front of the home fans. <\/p>\n
Diallo, 24, has been hindered by a back injury all season and his ranking fell outside the Top 100 this week for the first time since 2024. <\/p>\n
Gaining admission to the National Bank Open as a wild card, Diallo opened his tournament on Monday with a 6-7(1), 6-3, 6-2 over qualifier Kyrian Jacquet.<\/p>\n
Diallo was the second Canadian to retire on centre court Tuesday, as Denis Shapovalov was also forced to end his match early due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n
With Diallo and Shapovalov now out, any hopes of a Canadian victory on home soil now lie with Felix Auger-Aliassime. <\/p>\n
The No. 2 seed kicks off his tournament on Wednesday night against France’s Titouan Droguet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a tough day for the Canadians on centre court in Montreal. Canada’s Gabriel Diallo was forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-846623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846623","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=846623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}