Programming began four hours later, resulting in two postponements and a few pitch changes.
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* Update at 6:30 p.m. with the first round reports.
Montreal Canada) – Monday’s round of the Masters 1000 in Montreal was long delayed by rain. Originally scheduled for 1 p.m. (Brasilia), the program for the first day of main draw matches suffered several postponements and did not start until 5 p.m.
Two matches have been postponed to Tuesday, the duel between Briton Andy Murray and American Taylor Fritz and the meeting between Frenchman Adrian Mannarino and Arthur Rinderknech. The organization of the tournament also made some changes to the field, but without much impact on the schedule.
The main stadium program started with the match between the Swiss Stan Wawrinka and the Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori. After the match, the round continues at 7:30 p.m. (GMT) with Canadian Denis Shapovalov against Australian Alex de Minaur. In the last match of the session, the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman faces the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Court Rogers, second in the complex, will pit Francisco Cerundolo against Karen Khachanov. On court 9, Alex Molcan and Mackenzie McDonald face off. The debut of Brazilian Bruno Soares in the doubles table is maintained for Monday. The miner plays alongside Briton Jamie Murray on court 5 against fellow Briton Daniel Evans and Australian John Peers.
Check out Monday’s updated schedule.
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