{"id":877582,"date":"2026-08-30T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:44:15","slug":"canadas-fernandez-shapovalov-advance-to-second-round-of-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877582\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Fernandez, Shapovalov advance to second round of U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Leylah Fernandez is on to the second round of the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Laval, Que., native defeated China&#8217;s Shuai Zhang 6-3, 6-2 in opening-round women&#8217;s singles action on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 31st-seeded Fernandez had four aces to three double faults and converted three of her seven break-point chances. She also saved all seven of Zhang&#8217;s break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang was held without an ace and had one double fault.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., defeated Serbia&#8217;s Miomir Kecmanovic 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in men&#8217;s singles play.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov had 19 aces, but committed 11 double faults, while also breaking on six of his 14 chances.<\/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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-877582","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\/877582","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=877582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}