{"id":1133586,"date":"2026-08-06T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:37:19","slug":"wimbledon-champion-and-finalist-crash-out-in-first-matches-at-canadian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133586\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion and finalist crash out in first matches at Canadian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wimbledon<\/a> women\u2019s singles champion Linda Noskova<\/a> lost her first match since her All England Club<\/a> triumph with a straight-sets loss at the Canadian Open<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The Czech player, who is now the world No 7, lost in straight-sets to American Caty McNally in Toronto, 7-6(5), 6-1. <\/p>\n

Noskova was actually leading 5-1 in the first set and had two set-point opportunities but couldn\u2019t convert, with world No 70 McNally advancing to the third round. <\/p>\n

\"LindaLinda Noskova lost her first match since winning Wimbledon (Getty)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, world No 3 and Wimbledon men\u2019s singles finalist Alexander Zverev<\/a> was also defeated in his first match in four weeks. <\/p>\n

Competing in Montreal, top seed Zverev lost in three sets to Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-4. It is the first time all season Zverev has lost his first match of any tournament. <\/p>\n

\u201cI expected not to play well this week,\u201d he said afterwards. \u201cI played very well the last couple of months; I took a little bit of time off. And I practiced then, but it\u2019s tough competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this was probably the worst match of the season that I\u2019ve had this year. I didn\u2019t have many bad matches, but this one was up there as the worst.<\/p>\n

\"AlexanderAlexander Zverev lost in his first match at the Canadian Open (AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s okay. It\u2019s a process. Tennis comes with ups and downs. I\u2019m very happy with how the last couple of months were. Now it\u2019s about getting back to that form.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zverev lost to world No 1 Jannik Sinner in the final at Wimbledon, but the Italian has opted to skip the event in Montreal<\/p>\n

Noskova, Zverev and Sinner will play at the Cincinnati Open, the final masters-level tournament before the US Open which starts on 30 August. <\/p>\n

Fourth seed Daniil Medvedev was another high-profile casualty in Montreal, losing 6-3, 7-6(5) to Botic van de Zandschulp, but Briton Cameron Norrie progressed to the last-32 with a straight-sets win over Ignacio Buse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1133587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4105],"tags":[97969,14930,4294,25020,113007,9457,2956,93,79,1068,16,15,5069],"class_list":["post-1133586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-atp","tag-game","tag-national-bank-open","tag-play","tag-player","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wta"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117047895794674426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}