The 2026 Canadian Open has been dealt another couple of blows as two more players have joined the ever-increasing withdrawal list.<\/p>\n
The joint-ATP-WTA 1000 event \u2013 the first of the second half of the tennis season \u2013 runs from 1 August until 13 August with the men\u2019s competition being staged in Montreal and the women\u2019s tournament taking place in Toronto.<\/p>\n
It is also the first leg of the North American triple header along with the Cincinnati Open and US Open<\/a> also taking place in August, which means players need to pace themselves and take care of niggles if they are to peak at the final Grand Slam of the year in New York.<\/p>\n \u2018The tennis world needs Carlos Alcaraz back \u2013 but his injury is complicated\u2019, says Grand Slam finalist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Inside story on the tennis champion helping to save lives of young children around the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Last year, Ben Shelton won the men\u2019s event and local hero Victoria Mboko lifted the women\u2019s crown<\/a> on her debut at the tournament, but Canadian fans have already been dealt a blow as Mboko won\u2019t defend her title due to injury.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old suffered a serious knee injury during the Queen\u2019s Club Championship and was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon and her home event in Quebec.<\/p>\n 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu joined the list last week<\/a> as she is out with a stress fracture in her right leg with her return date unclear as she will also not compete at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n Two Grand Slam finalists have now also joined the list with Karolina Muchova, who finished runner-up at Wimbledon just over a week ago, recovering after undergoing a \u201csmall surgery\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI had to undergo a small surgery that will keep me off the court for a few weeks. Everything went well, and I\u2019m already working on my recovery,\u201d the world No 6 wrote on social media.<\/p>\n And former French Open and Wimbledon runner-up Jasmine Paolini is the latest to be forced to withdraw as she has a foot injury.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019ve decided to withdraw from Washington and Toronto so I can give my foot extra time to rest,\u201d the Italian, who reached the quarter-final at Wimbledon earlier in July, said.<\/p>\n Muchova, Mboko, Paolini and Baptiste were all set to be seeded in Canada.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> remains the biggest name missing from the ATP entry list with the seven-time Grand Slam still recovering from the wrist injury he sustained during the Barcelona Open in July.<\/p>\n However, there is good news as he is expected to make his return at the second leg of the North American triple header, the Cincinnati Open, which gets underway on 13 August in Mason in the United States.<\/p>\n There are still doubts over the participation of tennis great Novak Djokovic as the former world No 1 \u2013 a four-time winner of the Canadian Open \u2013 last competed at the ATP Masters 1000 event in 2018.<\/p>\n The post Canadian Open withdrawal list: 8 stars out as another Grand Slam finalist joins Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2026 Canadian Open has been dealt another couple of blows as two more players have joined the ever-increasing withdrawal list. The joint-ATP-WTA 1000 event \u2013 the first of the second half of the tennis season \u2013 runs from 1 August until 13 August with the men\u2019s competition being staged in Montreal and the women\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis Features<\/h2>\n
WTA Canadian withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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ATP Canadian Open withdrawal list<\/h2>\n
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