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What was shaping up to be a difficult day for the home crowd was salvaged late under the lights by a Canadian scoring a long-awaited victory.

After a pair of losses by Canuck’s early in the day, Alexis Galarneau finished off Monday on a high note with by claiming his first ATP Tour main draw match win.

Here is the Day 3 recap served up by Sobeys

On-Court Action

Two years ago, Galarneau had a lead in the third set of his first-round match against Francisco Cerundolo but it slipped away. This time around against Arthur Rinderknech, the Lavalois kept his foot on the gas from start to finish. He got an early break and even though it slipped away, he took the first set in a tiebreak before delivering some clutch serving in the second set to ride an early break to victory.

"It feels great. A big relief after coming up short two times,” Galarneau told NBO staff after the win. “I’m just proud of how I’ve learned from those lessons and today I thought I managed the match pretty well.”

Galarneau joins Félix Auger-Aliassime, Denis Shapovalov, Gabriel Diallo, and Nicolas Arseneault in the second round.

Joao Fonseca’s much-anticipated debut did not go as planned. The Brazilian teen struggled to find a rhythm and was unable to match the consistency of Australian qualifier Tristan Schoolkate, who defeated him in straight sets.

It was a tough day for the debutants overall on Centre Court as the two Canadians making their ATP Tour singles debuts were both defeated. Dan Martin was beaten in the opening match of the day by Jaume Munar and Liam Draxl was edged in a thriller under the lights by former champion Pablo Carreno Busta.

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Around the Grounds

As part of Tennis Canada’s focus on mental health, the organization hosted the ATP’s first-ever mental health panel. Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev took part in the conversation, emphasizing the importance of being aware of your mental well-being.

“We as tennis players, the thing we’ve done for our whole life is hit a ball and not think about the things that need to be talked about in life,” Ruud said. “Sometimes you face certain situations where you’re lacking something and need to get back on track so, if there’s someone there to talk to, that’s very helpful.”

The goal is to one day make athletes talking about mental health more of a common conversation, rather than news.

“I didn’t expect to be the voice. I just wanted to be honest,” Rublev said. “I didn't [speak about my mental health] just to share it, I did it for me. I wanted to tell the truth.”

To further aid athletes’ well-being, the ATP Tour donated $10,000 to the Canadian Centre for Mental Health and Sport.

Roddick Tennis Talk

Former world No. 1 and 2003 Montreal champion Andy Roddick stopped by Sobeys Stadium on Monday, joining Arash Madani for Tennis Canada’s Tennis Talk. Now the creator and host of the podcast “Served,” Roddick was back to answering the questions again and had lots to say about tennis.

“This is the hardest sport in the world,” the American said in praise of the players on tour. “You’re isolated, there’s no guaranteed salary, you can’t coast off of a system or coach, there are a lot of things in tennis that make this sport really hard.”

Now, on the other side of the mic, the 2003 U.S. Open champion is watching in awe of tennis’ new era.

“If you were to tell me in the postmortems of the careers of Roger [Federer], Rafa [Nadal], Serena [Williams] – all of the “Avengers” – that tennis was going to boom, I would’ve lost our house on that,” Roddick said.

The Omaha-native had high praise for Iga Swiatek, fresh off her sixth Grand Slam title, as well as Coco Gauff, and Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz’s great rivalry.

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