Jessica Pegula is the defending champion at the Canadian Open so she has a lot at stake over the next fortnight, but Iga Swiatek will start with a clean slate while Emma Raducanu’s situation is slightly complicated.
The Canadian Open, the sixth WTA 1000 tournament of the 2025 season, is key to the North American hard-court swing as it is one of the warm-up events for the US Open.
This year marks the first time that the expanded tournament will be played over 12 days with first-round matches starting on July 27 while the final of the WTA event hosted on August 7. Last year’s Canadian Open was staged a week later due to the 2024 Paris Olympics as the event took place from August 6-12.
It means it slightly complicates the points that players are defending from corresponding events 12 months ago as they will not only drop points from the 2024 Canadian Open, but also the Washington Open in DC as that WTA 500 tournament ran from July 29 until August 4.
So if player A played in DC and/or Canada in 2024, they will drop points from both of those events in the coming week.
How Many Points Are The Top Players Dropping
Let’s start with world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who has opted to sit out last week’s Washington DC Open and the upcoming Canadian Open. Sabalenka, though, played in both tournaments in 2024 and she reached the semi-final in the United States and the quarter-finals a week later.
The three-time Grand Slam winner will drop a total of 410 points (215+195) and, of course, she won’t pick up any points over the next 12 days as she won’t play at the WTA 1000 event as she felt she needed a longer break after Wimbledon. Sabalenka sits on 12,420 points ahead of the Canada event and will be on 12,010 at the end, enough to maintain her big lead at the top.
World No 2 and reigning French Open champion Coco Gauff didn’t play in DC in 2024 as she competed in Paris, but then returned at the Canadian Open and reached the third round so she will drop 120 points.
Wimbledon winner Iga Swiatek won bronze at the 2024 Olympic Games so she didn’t play in either event so she will not defend any points in Montreal. Fourth seed Mirra Andreeva, seventh seed Jasmine Paolini and ninth seed Elena Rybakina are some of the other players who didn’t play 12 months ago.
Defending champion Pegula has the most to lose in Canada as she earned 1,000 points 12 months ago when she defeated Amanda Anisimova, but she didn’t compete in DC in 2024.
Anisimova will drop 650 after finishing runner-up in Canada in 2024 and another 133 for reaching the quarter-finals in DC.
Diana Shnaider and Emma Navarro were the quarter-finalists 12 months ago and they will both drop 390 points.
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Emma Raducanu prize money and points earned for singles and doubles campaign in Washington DC
Emma Raducanu is another of the high-profile players who didn’t feature at the WTA 1000 tournament in 2024 as her ranking was not good enough for a direct entry so she won’t drop any points.
But on the flip side, Raducanu competed at the Washington DC Open in 2024 and she reached the quarter-final so her 108 points from that event will be scrapped after the Canadian Open. Raducanu, though, also competed at the 2025 edition in DC and reached the semi-final (195).
Confused?
Raducanu’s 195 points from the 2025 Washington run will be added to her tally when the WTA Rankings are updated on Monday, July 28, but her 108 points from 2024 will come off after the Canadian Open.
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