{"id":307542,"date":"2025-07-31T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307542\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:18:14","slug":"andrey-rublev-explains-why-he-prefers-playing-in-montreal-over-toronto-after-winning-his-canadian-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/307542\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrey Rublev explains why he prefers playing in Montreal over Toronto after winning his Canadian Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andrey Rublev has made it through to the third round of the Canadian Open after a 6-2 6-3 victory over Hugo Gaston.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rublev, now ranked 11 in the world, is looking to eclipse his marvellous run at last year\u2019s Canadian Open<\/a>. The Russian reached the final before losing to Alexei Popyrin.<\/p>\n

This year, the tournament has seen various withdrawals occur<\/a>. However, Rublev has shown up to defend the points he achieved at last year\u2019s Canadian Open.<\/p>\n

The tournament traditionally switches every season, between Montreal and Toronto. This season, the men\u2019s tournament is taking place in Toronto, while the WTA players<\/a> are competing in Montreal.<\/p>\n

After defeating Gaston on Tuesday, Rublev discussed why he prefers playing in Montreal to Toronto.<\/p>\n

\"AndreyPhoto by Julian Avram\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesAndrey Rublev says it is tough to control the ball in Toronto<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Tennis Channel<\/a> after beating Gaston, Rublev was candid when explaining why he prefers playing in Montreal to Toronto.<\/p>\n

The Russian cited the \u2018super fast\u2019 courts in Toronto while noting the unpredictability of rally patterns.<\/p>\n

Rublev said: \u201cFor me yes [he favours Montreal over Toronto]. For me, conditions are completely different. Montreal was opposite. The courts were quite like, not fast, not slow, but playable; let\u2019s say playable, you play a lot of rallies. You need to run, you need to think, and on top of that, it was easier to control the ball.<\/p>\n

\"TENNIS:Photo by Julian Avram\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Here, the courts are super fast and it\u2019s super tough to control the ball. Like the ball flies everywhere. It\u2019s super tough to hit in a rhythm. Looks like it\u2019s altitude here but it\u2019s not. But the ball flies sometimes a lot out of sense. Like you are doing the same thing and the ball flies five metres out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd happens to everyone. If you check the matches, if you check the practices, it\u2019s really tough to control, to play in a rhythm for a while, even on practice when you\u2019re hitting from the middle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough, everybody missing a lot but this is the conditions and they are for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrey Rublev\u2019s run to the 2024 Canadian Open final<\/p>\n

Andrey Rublev registered an excellent run at the 2024 Canadian Open in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Rublev, seeded fifth, was given a bye through to the round of 32. From there he beat Tomas Etcheverry and Brandon Nakashima without dropping a set.<\/p>\n

In the quarter-finals, he faced top seed Jannik Sinner<\/a>. However, this was not a problem for Rublev, who won in three sets against the Italian.<\/p>\n\n2024 Canadian Open Round<\/strong><\/td>\nOpponent\/Score<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nR32<\/td>\nbt Tomas Etcheverry 7-6 6-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nR16<\/td>\nbt Brandon Nakashima 6-2 6-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nQuarter-finals<\/td>\nbt Jannik Sinner 6-3 1-6 6-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSemi-finals<\/td>\nbt Matteo Arnaldi 6-4 6-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFinal<\/td>\nlost to Alexei Popyrin 2-6 4-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Rublev then beat another Italian, Matteo Arnaldi, in the semi-finals, before losing to Alexei Popyrin in the final.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2025, and Rublev will face Lorenzo Sonego in the Canadian Open round of 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrey Rublev has made it through to the third round of the Canadian Open after a 6-2 6-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[39569,79963,66689,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andrey-rublev","9":"tag-atp-tennis-players","10":"tag-canadian-open","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949934978077119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307542","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=307542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}