{"id":848787,"date":"2026-08-07T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848787\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:38:14","slug":"swiatek-and-alexandrova-win-third-round-matches-at-national-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848787\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek and Alexandrova win third-round matches at National Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sixth-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia defeated Australia’s Talia Gibson 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the fourth round of the National Bank Open women’s tennis tournament.<\/p>\n

Alexandrova was joined in the Round of 16 by seventh-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland, who beat Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland 6-2, 6-1 at Sobeys Stadium.<\/p>\n

Alexandrova and Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski teamed up later in the day in a first-round doubles match against Americans Coco Gauff and Caty McNally. Heavy rain delayed play with Dabrowski serving at 3-3 in the first set.<\/p>\n

Dabrowski’s usual partner, Luisa Stefani of Brazil, skipped the WTA 1000 hardcourt event to rest an elbow injury.<\/p>\n

Leylah Fernandez and Bianca Fernandez, both from Laval, Que., were scheduled to play Belgium’s Elise Mertens and Diana Shnaider of Russia in a late-afternoon match.<\/p>\n

Play continues through Aug. 13 at the US$7.43-million tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-848787","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\/848787","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=848787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}