{"id":99767,"date":"2025-07-28T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99767\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:10:21","slug":"what-will-happen-for-just-the-fifth-time-in-history-at-the-canadian-open-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99767\/","title":{"rendered":"What will happen for just the fifth time in history at the Canadian Open this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Following the conclusion of the Washington Open, the Canadian Open, an ATP Masters 1000 event, will get underway in Toronto. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The competition is the first of two Masters series in the build-up to the US Open, followed by the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s tournament, two home hopes will bid farewell to the tennis world, after Eugenie Bouchard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/denis-shapovalov-admits-hes-very-sad-as-former-wimbledon-champion-gets-ready-to-retire-from-tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vasek Pospisil announced their retirement<\/a> from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Several big names have pulled out of the Canadian Open, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/opinion\/jannik-sinner-and-novak-djokovic-have-just-handed-the-rest-of-the-atp-tour-a-big-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic withdrawing<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jack-draper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Draper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple confirmed no-shows have meant something will happen in Toronto for just the fifth time in history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2165996776-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The Canadian Open in Toronto.\" class=\"wp-image-113565\" \/>Photo by Mert Alper Dervis\/Anadolu via Getty ImagesHistory to be made at the Canadian Open this year<\/p>\n<p>Since the inception of the format in 1990, there have only been four occasions where no former Grand Slam champions have featured in the top eight seeds at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP<\/a> Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2025 Canadian Open, without Djokovic, Sinner or Alcaraz, it will happen for a fifth time. <\/p>\n<p>ATP Masters 1000 events with no Grand Slam winners in the top eight seeds:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Paris 2006<\/li>\n<li>Miami 2021<\/li>\n<li>Toronto 2021<\/li>\n<li>Cincinnati 2021<\/li>\n<li>Toronto 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Appearing at the Masters tournament is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/daniil-medvedev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, who is a former major winner, but is seeded 10th. <\/p>\n<p>The only other active Grand Slam champions on the tour are Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic; however, neither will play in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2220112677-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Zverev looks on during his semifinal match with Ben Shelton at the 2025 Stuttgart Open\" class=\"wp-image-113915\" \/>Photo by Christian Kaspar-Bartke\/Getty ImagesThe top eight seeds at this year\u2019s Canadian Open<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/alexander-zverev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Zverev<\/a>, Taylor Fritz, Lorenzo Musetti and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/ben-shelton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shelton<\/a> will make up seeds one through four, all of whom have reached at least a Grand Slam semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Both Shelton and Musetti are looking to clinch their first Masters 1000 crown. <\/p>\n<p>Seeds five to eight are Holger Rune, Andrey Rublev, Frances Tiafoe and Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n<p>Ruud has come close to winning a major on several occasions, having made the French Open final in both 2022 and 2023, and the US Open final in 2022. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the conclusion of the Washington Open, the Canadian Open, an ATP Masters 1000 event, will get underway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,47618,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-99767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-canadian-open","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114931736531374483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}