Last updated: 8:00 p.m. local<\/p>\n
TORONTO — The National Bank Open semifinals in Toronto will begin at 8:05 p.m. after a short delay because of weather in the northern Toronto area. The first semifinal was originally scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
First, Elina Svitolina and Iga Swiatek will take Centre Court in their third meeting of the 2026 season on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n
After, World No. 4 Coco Gauff and World No. 2 Elena Rybakina will meet for the first time since their Round of 32 match in Toronto four years ago, a Gauff three-set victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition, the doubles semifinal match between top-seeded pair Katerina Siniakova and Zhang Shaui vs. Tereza Mihalikova and Olivia Nicholls will resume at 8:15 p.m. on Grandstand Court. Siniakova and Zhang currently lead 6-1, 4-2 in the second set, and the winners will face Sara Errani and Nicole Melichar-Martinez in the doubles final tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last updated: 8:00 p.m. local TORONTO — The National Bank Open semifinals in Toronto will begin at 8:05…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-811754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}