{"id":851332,"date":"2026-08-09T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851332\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:54:08","slug":"top-seeded-aryna-sabalenka-falls-at-national-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851332\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka falls at National Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 seed has fallen at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers women&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus lost 7-6 (3), 4-6, 4-6 to Russia&#8217;s Ekaterina Alexandrova in the Round of 16 on Saturday in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka hadn&#8217;t dropped a set in either of her two opening wins.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova will next face the winner of a match between top-10 opponents Elina Svitolina and Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka struggled with her serve in the loss, firing six aces to seven double-faults. Both players were broken on serve six times apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrova finished with 109 points to Sabalenka&#8217;s 104.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka is the second high seed to fall on Saturday after No. 3 Jessica Pegula also exited with a loss to 15th-ranked Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 1 seed has fallen at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers women&#8217;s tournament. Aryna Sabalenka&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-851332","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\/851332","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=851332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}