{"id":851234,"date":"2026-08-09T00:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851234\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T00:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:54:22","slug":"rising-nakashima-reaches-first-masters-1000-quarterfinal-in-montreal-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851234\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Nakashima Reaches First Masters 1000 Quarterfinal in Montreal \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Nakashima has made a beeline for the Top 25 after hiring Wayne Ferreira as his coach before the grass court season. The American has won 10 of 13 matches since, including semifinal runs at Queens and DC, and now he\u2019s into his first career Masters quarterfinal at Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Today Nakashima braved hard-serving Arthur Rinderknech and a lengthy rain delay, returning to action at 4-4 in the final set to take three of the final four games for his 25th win of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday night, Nakashima is up to a career-high No.29 in the live rankings, and he could jump into the Top 25 if he can get past Italy\u2019s Luciano Darderi in the quarterfinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Darderi defeated Nuno Borges earlier on Saturday, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, to reach his first Masters quarterfinal on a hard court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing out after the break I knew I had to get firing right from the beginning because it\u2019s gonna happen pretty quick,\u201d Nakashima said. \u201cObviously, in the first game, he hit four big serves, so I couldn\u2019t do anything there but I just tried to stay focused, and when I had the opportunities, I just tried to go for it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old American was 0-5 in Masters quarterfinals prior to today. He improved to 2-0 lifetime against Rinderknech with the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the level is continuing to grow with each match,\u201d Nakashima said. \u201cEvery day it\u2019s a new opportunity out here \u2013 I try to make the most of it, and I\u2019m super, super happy that it\u2019s paying off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Oddo. Chris Oddo is a freelance sportswriter, podcaster, blogger and social media marker who is a lead contributor to Tennisnow.com. He also writes for USOpen.org, Rolandgarros.com, BNPParibasOpen.com, TennisTV.com, WTAtennis.com and the official US Open program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Nakashima has made a beeline for the Top 25 after hiring Wayne Ferreira as his coach before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-851234","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\/851234","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=851234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}