Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner to be the No. 1 seeds on the 2024 Nationwide Financial institution Open
[TORONTO AND MONTREAL] Monday, July 29, 2024 – As we speak, Tennis Canada introduced the highest seeds for the 2024 Nationwide Financial institution Open introduced by Rogers (NBO) in Toronto and Montreal. On the WTA Tour, Iga Swiatek of Poland headlines the participant discipline in Toronto because the No. 1 seed, holding the highest spot within the WTA rankings because the starting of the calendar yr. On the lads’s facet, World No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy will enter Montreal as the very best seeded participant. He climbed to the highest of the ATP rankings earlier this yr after reaching the ultimate of Roland-Garros. The seedings forward of the 2024 Nationwide Financial institution Open comply with the ATP and WTA’s official rankings as of at the moment, July 29, 2024.
In Toronto, Swiatek enters the sphere on the NBO because the top-ranked participant for the third straight yr, together with her eyes set on her first Canadian title. The four-time French Open champion shall be in powerful competitors, with second-seeded Coco Gauff of the US returning to the match as a US Open champion and searching for to raised her 2023 singles results of reaching the quarter-finals final yr in Montreal. Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, Italian famous person Jasmine Paolini, and reigning NBO champion Jessica Pegula (USA) are additionally among the many prime seeds in Toronto this August.
“This can be a very sturdy participant record — in actual fact, the strongest one we’ve ever had in an Olympic yr,” mentioned Karl Hale, Match Director of the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Toronto. “With the whole record of the WTA Tour’s prime 16 gamers becoming a member of us at Sobeys Stadium this yr, headlined by Swiatek, Gauff, and Sabalenka, the match might go in any course. The help surrounding tennis this yr has been overwhelmingly constructive, and followers are in for an actual deal with with the expertise touching down in Canada this August.”
In Montreal, Sinner, who turned the primary Italian participant to succeed in the highest of the rankings, shall be defending his 2023 NBO title on the IGA Stadium courts as the highest seed. He’s having fun with the very best season of his profession, with 4 titles already to his identify, together with his first Grand Slam crown on the Australian Open. It received’t be a simple highway to the title for Sinner, with the potential for going through Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz (No. 3 seed), four-time Grand Slam champion, and Novak Djokovic (No. 2 seed), 24-time Grand Slam champion and five-time NBO winner, who shall be making his return to Montreal for the primary time since 2015. Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev, two former NBO champions, spherical out the Prime 5 seeds.
“This yr’s principal draw shall be a fantastic mixture of youth and expertise. With a line-up of seeded gamers that’s extra proficient than ever, the match we’re about to witness guarantees to be extraordinarily thrilling and extremely aggressive,” mentioned Valérie Tétreault, Match Director of the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal. “Followers may have the possibility to witness matches which can be already shaping as much as be intense and stuffed with emotion. I’m trying ahead to the official draw ceremony – scheduled to happen on August 3 – to find the first-round matchups and to see the tales of this yr’s match start to unfold!”
Canadians competing in the primary draw Félix Auger-Aliassime, world No. 19, and Leylah Annie Fernandez, world No. 25. would be the top- ranked Canadian gamers in singles, whereas Gabriela Dabrowski – ranked No. 3 on this planet in doubles – will cleared the path for Canada within the doubles draw. Dabrowksi received her first girls’s doubles Grand Slam on the 2023 US Open and was just lately a Wimbledon finalist with teammate
Erin Routliffe. Bianca Andreescu, Denis Shapovalov, Rebecca Marino and Marina Stakusic will even be collaborating within the match’s principal draw, which will get underway on Tuesday August 6. The official draw ceremonies for the Nationwide Financial institution Open will happen on Saturday, August 3 at 4:30 p.m. (Montreal – ATP) and 5 p.m. (Toronto – WTA).
The entire record of seeds is listed under:
NATIONAL BANK OPEN PRESENTED BY ROGERS (TORONTO)
SEEDING PLAYER RANKING
1 Iga Swiatek (POL) 1
2 Coco Gauff (USA) 2
3 Aryna Sabalenka 3
4 Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 4
5 Jasmine Paolini (ITA) 5
6 Jessica Pegula (USA) 6
7 Qinwen Zheng (CHN) 7
8 Maria Sakkari (GRE) 8
9 Danielle Collins (USA) 9
10 Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 10
11 Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 11
12 Daria Kasatkina 12
13 Liudmila Samsonova 13
14 Madison Keys (USA) 14
15 Emma Navarro (USA) 15
16 Ons Jabeur (TUN) 16
NATIONAL BANK OPEN PRESENTED BY ROGERS (MONTREAL)
SEEDING PLAYER RANKING
1 Jannik Sinner (ITA) 1
2 Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2
3 Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 3
4 Alexander Zverev (GER) 4
5 Daniil Medvedev 5
6 Alex De Minaur (AUS) 6
7 Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 7
8 Andrey Rublev 8
9 Casper Ruud (NOR) 9
10 Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 10
11 Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 11
12 Taylor Fritz (USA) 12
13 Tommy Paul (USA) 13
14 Ben Shelton (USA) 14
15 Ugo Humbert (FRA) 15
16 Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) 16
