{"id":848078,"date":"2026-08-06T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848078\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:38:13","slug":"another-top-five-player-goes-down-as-medvedev-falls-at-nbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848078\/","title":{"rendered":"Another top-five player goes down as Medvedev falls at NBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rough day for top seeds at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers continued in the men&#8217;s session on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s No. 4 seed Daniil Medvedev fell to world No. 70 Botic van de Zandschulp in straight sets in Montreal, losing 6-3, 7-6 (5) to end his tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev won the 2021 tournament, just one month before claiming his lone major title at the US Open. He exited in the third round of the NBO last year.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the NBO&#8217;s top seeds, Medvedev was given a bye straight to the second round, while van de Zandschulp defeated Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on Tuesday to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev adds to the list of top men&#8217;s players to bow out early at the NBO, joining No. 1 Alexander Zverev, No. 2 Auger-Aliassime, No. 7 Taylor Fritz, No. 14 Valentin Vacherot and No. 16 Francisco Cerundulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rough day for top seeds at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers continued in the men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-848078","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\/848078","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=848078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}