{"id":17566,"date":"2025-07-30T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/canadas-gabriel-diallo-reaches-3rd-round-in-toronto\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:29:51","slug":"canadas-gabriel-diallo-reaches-3rd-round-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/canadas-gabriel-diallo-reaches-3rd-round-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo reaches 3rd round in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Towering Canadian Gabriel Diallo defeated Italy&#8217;s Matteo Gigante 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday to reach the third round of the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 right-hander from Montreal finished Gigante in 1 hour and 46 minutes in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Diallo saved two set points at 2-5 before breaking and eventually forced a tiebreaker. Gigante took a 5-3 lead, dropping the final four points and double faulted with match points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tennis can get pretty crazy about the momentum switch you see during games,&#8221; Diallo said.<\/p>\n<p>Diallo won his first ATP tour title in the Netherlands last month. He faces the winner of a late match between second-seeded Taylor Fritz of the United States and Roberto Carbalez Baena of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>In the other second match, fourth-seeded American Ben Shelton defeated French qualifier Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 6-3, while sixth-seeded Russian Andrei Lebrev passed French Hugo Gaston 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Towering Canadian Gabriel Diallo defeated Italy&#8217;s Matteo Gigante 6-3, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday to reach the third round of the National Bank Open. The 6-foot-8 right-hander from Montreal finished Gigante in 1 hour and 46 minutes in the rain. Diallo saved two set points at 2-5 before breaking and eventually forced a tiebreaker. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2243,4935,5024,2133,110,24,4473],"class_list":{"0":"post-17566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-3rd","9":"tag-canadas","10":"tag-diallo","11":"tag-gabriel","12":"tag-reaches","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}