Emma Raducanu, Karolina Pliskova and Sloane Stephens headline qualifying entry checklist for 2024 Nationwide Financial institution Open in Toronto
Qualifying takes place on Sunday, August 4 and Monday, August 5 at Sobeys Stadium
[TORONTO, ON] July 17, 2024 – Tennis Canada revealed the qualifying entry checklist for the 2024 Nationwide
Financial institution Open introduced by Rogers (NBO) on Wednesday. Two rounds of qualifying will begin throughout
407 ETR Household Weekend at Sobeys Stadium on Sunday, August 4 and Monday, August 5.
The checklist consists of three Grand Slam champions with 2018 NBO runner-up Sloane Stephens (2017 US
Open), Sofia Kenin (2020 Australian Open), each of the USA, and Nice Britain’s Emma Raducanu (2021 US Open) all confirmed to participate. 2021 NBO runner-up Karolina Pliskova of Czechia, a former World No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam finalist (2016 US Open, 2021 Wimbledon), can also be set to characteristic because the top-ranked participant on the qualifying checklist.
“It’s a testomony to the strength-in-depth of the WTA Tour and the ladies’s sport that we’re capable of verify such a robust qualifying checklist for this 12 months’s Nationwide Financial institution Open introduced by Rogers,” stated Karl
Hale, Match Director, NBO Toronto. “We sit up for welcoming the entire gamers to Toronto subsequent month and we all know will probably be a fierce competitors to see who will declare the all-important locations in the principle draw. Followers will want no extra encouragement than the names on that checklist to affix us throughout 407 ETR Household Weekend, which is free for all attendees.”
Followers are reminded that, because of the Paris 2024 Olympics schedule, the NBO will begin and finish sooner or later
later than common this 12 months, with the primary day of qualifying on Sunday, August 4, primary draw on account of begin on Tuesday, August 6 and the singles and doubles finals going down on Monday, August 12.
Click on right here for the entire qualifying entry checklist in Toronto. Please obtain the file to keep away from formatting
discrepancies.
Three qualifying wild playing cards, which shall be allotted to Canadians, shall be introduced by the Nationwide Financial institution
Open in the end. One additional qualifying wild card shall be awarded to the winner of the pre-qualifying
draw going down from Tuesday, July 30 to Friday, August 2 at Sobeys Stadium.
The qualifying entry checklist for the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal shall be confirmed on Thursday, July 18.
Full particulars relating to the on-site actions for followers throughout 407 ETR Household Weekend in Toronto shall be
confirmed subsequent week.
