Fallen star Alexei Popyrin has dug deep for a morale-boosting victory to join Alex de Minaur in the second round of the Montreal Masters. De Minaur, meanwhile, looked to be cruising before fellow Sydneysider James Duckworth put the world No.7 through the ringer late on. “In the first set everything was flowing,” de Minaur said after the one-hour, 46-minute dogfight. While de Minuar and Poprin move on, fellow Australian Adam Walton crashed out with a 6-3 6-4 loss to American Jenson Brooksby. In the women’s WTA event in Toronto, Tahlia Gibson continued her stellar 2026 season with an upset 7-5 6-1 second-round win over Polish 18th seed Maja Chwalinska.