{"id":861481,"date":"2026-08-17T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861481\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:00:08","slug":"fourth-ranked-auger-aliassime-headlines-canadian-roster-for-davis-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861481\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-ranked Auger-Aliassime headlines Canadian roster for Davis Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Fourth-ranked Felix Auger-Aliassime headlines the Canadian roster for the second round of Davis Cup qualifiers next month in Quebec City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tennis Canada says he\u2019ll be joined by fellow Montrealer Gabriel Diallo, Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., and Duncan Chan of Markham, Ont. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada, ranked 12th in the tournament, will play sixth-ranked France in a best-of-five tie at Videotron Centre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The winner will advance to the 2026 Davis Cup Finals in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada edged Brazil 3-2 in the first round of qualifiers last February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">France qualified by defeating Slovakia 3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 17, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Fourth-ranked Felix Auger-Aliassime headlines the Canadian roster for the second round of Davis Cup qualifiers next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-861481","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\/861481","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=861481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}