{"id":872351,"date":"2026-08-26T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872351\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:24:09","slug":"canadas-carson-branstine-advances-to-final-round-of-us-open-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872351\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Carson Branstine advances to final round of US Open qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carson Branstine is one win away from playing in the main draw of the US Open for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian advanced to the third and final round of women&#8217;s singles qualifying with a 6-4, 7-5 upset over world No. 174 Linda Fruhvirtova of Czechia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Branstine will face world No. 187 Robin Montgomery of the U.S. for a spot in the main draw on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Branstine, ranked 565th, had played just three matches on tour this year before this week, most recently in January at Australian Open qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Branstine qualified for Wimbledon last year, her first career Grand Slam appearance. She lost in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Canada&#8217;s Rebecca Marino lost 6-2, 6-4 to Russia&#8217;s Elena Pridankina in the second round of US Open qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Bianca Andreescu, Liam Draxl and Alexis Galarneau are scheduled to play their second-round qualifiers later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The main draw starts Sunday in New York. Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime, Denis Shapovalov and Leylah Fernandez are in the singles field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Branstine is one win away from playing in the main draw of the US Open for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-872351","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\/872351","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=872351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}