Nadal withdraws from Canadian Open, Andreescu into round three

The Spaniard has additionally missed Wimbledon and the Olympic Video games in latest months, and might be changed within the males’s singles draw by fortunate loser and compatriot Feliciano López, who was crushed by Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka in qualifying.

López will now face South Africa’s Lloyd Harris within the second spherical.

In the meantime, primary seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia overcame dropping the primary set to Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik to progress to the third spherical of the Affiliation of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour Masters 1000 event, and he’s joined by Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas within the reverse half of the draw after the world quantity three defeated France’s Ugo Humbert regardless of dropping a 22-minute tiebreak within the second set.

Humbert had knocked Tsitsipas out of the Olympic Video games event on the finish of final month.

Sixth seed Casper Ruud of Norway noticed off Croatia’s Marin Čilić to succeed in the final 16, whereas American Reilly Opelka defeated Grigor Dimitrov in straight units to make the Bulgarian the primary seeded participant to be eradicated.

Within the first-round motion, Olympic silver medallist Karen Khachanov of Russia beat Britain’s Cameron Norrie and can meet compatriot Aslan Karatsev within the second spherical, with the winner to face Tsitsipas.

Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili and Serbia’s Dušan Lajović each bounced again from dropping the primary set to win their ties, whereas former Canadian Open finalist Kei Nishikori of Japan additionally progressed after a three-set match towards Serbian Miomir Kecmanović.

American pair John Isner and Frances Tiafoe, in addition to France’s Benoît Paire, all eased via to the second spherical in straight units.

Dwelling hopefuls Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime begin their campaigns in Toronto tomorrow towards Lajović and Tiafoe respectively, as do Russian fourth seed Andrey Rublev towards Italy’s Fabio Fognini, Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman towards Paire and Wimbledon semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz of Poland towards Nishikori.

Within the ladies’s singles event at IGA Stadium in Montreal, defending champion Bianca Andreescu of Canada reached the third spherical with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Britain’s Harriet Dart.

Fellow seeded gamers Petra Kvitová of the Czech Republic and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus are safely via to the third spherical after straight-sets wins, regardless of a rain-enforced delay to the latter’s match, and they’re joined by one other Czech in Kateřina Siniaková as she upset fifth seed Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain.

Within the remaining first-round motion, seeded gamers Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia and Coco Gauff of the USA triumphed in straight units, however Belgium’s Elise Mertens and Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina had been crushed by Camila Giorgi of Italy and Russian Liudmila Samsonova respectively.

Individuals Jessica Pegula, Sloane Stephens and Danielle Collins all reached the second spherical, as did Russians Veronika Kudermetova and Daria Kasatkina, Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo and Croatia’s Donna Vekić.

Britain’s Johanna Konta was getting ready to levelling her match towards China’s Zhang Shuai at one set all when her opponent retired.

Prime seed Aryna Sabalenka will get her event underway tomorrow with a match towards Stephens, whereas Romania’s two-time winner of this occasion Simona Halep makes her return from damage towards Collins and 2017 Canadian Open champion Elina Svitolina of Ukraine faces Konta.

There was a shock within the ladies’s doubles as third seeds Nicole Melichar and Demi Schuurs of the US and The Netherlands respectively misplaced a final-set tiebreak 10-4 to American Catherine Harrison and Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri.

The opposite seeded pair in motion, Australian Ellen Perez and Czech Kveta Peschke, beat Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok and Japan’s Makoto Ninomiya in straight units.

Latvian Jelena Ostapenko and Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska gained a deciding tiebreaker 12-10 towards Océane Dodin of France and Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia, whereas Poland’s Magda Linette and the US’ Bernarda Pera progressed with out dropping a match to Oksana Kalashnikova of Georgia and Heather Watson of Britain.

Germany’s Vivian Heisen and Poland’s Alicja Rosolska had been the day’s different winners, profitable two tiebreaks to beat New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe and the Netherlands’ Rosalie Van Der Hoek.

Within the males’s doubles, Hurkacz and Italian accomplice Jannik Sinner had been knocked out by fifth seeds Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Marcelo Melo of Brazil within the first spherical.

Eighth seeds Rohan Bopanna of India and Ivan Dodig of Croatia defeated Italian duo Fognini and Lorenzo Sonego in straight units, as did Simone Bolelli of Italy and Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina towards Canada’s Peter Polansky and Brayden Schnur.