The hard-court summer is underway, and the first WTA 1000 event of the swing starts in less than a week.<\/p>\n
The IGA Stadium in Montreal will play host to the Canadian Open women\u2019s singles event this coming week, with action starting on July 27th.<\/p>\n
Here, we look at who will be in action over the coming fortnight.<\/p>\n
The biggest name not in action is world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who confirmed last week she would not be in action<\/a> after a heavy load of matches across the first half of the season.<\/p>\n World No 10 Paula Badosa has also withdrawn due to recurring injury issues, while world No 6 Zheng Qinwen has pulled out after elbow surgery last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n Former world No 2 Ons Jabeur will not be in action after confirming her intention to take a break from professional tennis<\/a>, while Donna Vekic and Sonay Kartal have also withdrawn.<\/p>\n In the absence of world No 1 Sabalenka, world No 2 Coco Gauff<\/a> is set to be the top seed, in the American\u2019s first tournament since her shock round-one defeat at Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, world No 3 Iga Swiatek<\/a> is currently set to return to action as the second seed in her first tournament since claiming her sixth Grand Slam title at the All England Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n World No 4 and two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula is set to be the third seed, with world No 5 Mirra Andreeva set to be seeded fourth.<\/p>\n 2024 runner-up Amanda Anisimova and Madison Keys are set to be the fifth and sixth seeds, respectively, with Jasmine Paolini seeded seventh and Emma Navarro seeded eighth.<\/p>\n Outside of the top eight seeds, there are plenty of big names in action.<\/p>\n Elena Rybakina and Elina Svitolina are set to be the ninth and 10th seeds, respectively, while Karolina Muchova, Ekaterina Alexandrova, and Daria Kasatkina are also inside the top 16 seeds in Montreal.<\/p>\n Recent Wimbledon semi-finalist Belinda Bencic is set to be the 17th seed, with former Grand Slam champions Jelena Ostapenko and Sofia Kenin seeded 23rd and 24th, respectively.<\/p>\n Outside of the seeded players, this year marks the return of Emma Raducanu to Canadian Open action<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Brit made her event debut in 2022, though she missed 2023 due to injury and 2024 due to a scheduling change.<\/p>\n Also among the notable unseeded players are four-time Grand Slam singles champion and former world No 1 Naomi Osaka, and rising star Alex Eala \u2013 who will make her event debut inside the IGA Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n The tournament has also awarded a wildcard to former world No 5 Eugenie Bouchard, with the 31-year-old announcing she will retire at her home event<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n 2019 US Open champion and former world No 4 Bianca Andreescu also receives a wildcard into her home event, as does rising Canadian star Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu misses a glut of match points before winning first match on US hard courts<\/a><\/p>\n ATP Canadian Open entry list: Alcaraz, Sinner, Djokovic lead big withdrawals<\/a><\/p>\n 1) Coco Gauff Read Next<\/strong>:\u00a0WTA Rankings: Lois Boisson achieves milestone with maiden title win, Alex Eala -13<\/a><\/p>\n The post WTA Canadian Open entry list: Gauff & Swiatek set to lead field, Raducanu returns<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hard-court summer is underway, and the first WTA 1000 event of the swing starts in less than a week. The IGA Stadium in Montreal will play host to the Canadian Open women\u2019s singles event this coming week, with action starting on July 27th. Here, we look at who will be in action over the […]<\/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-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The top seeds<\/h2>\n
Who else is entered?<\/h2>\n
Tennis News<\/h2>\n
Canadian Open Entry List (as of July 22, 2025)<\/h2>\n
\n2) Iga Swiatek
\n3) Jessica Pegula
\n4) Mirra Andreeva
\n5) Amanda Anisimova
\n6) Madison Keys
\n7) Jasmine Paolini
\n8) Emma Navarro
\n9) Elena Rybakina
\n10) Elina Svitolina
\n11) Karolina Muchova
\n12) Ekaterina Alexandrova
\n13) Liudmila Samsonova
\n14) Diana Shnaider
\n15) Daria Kasatkina
\n16) Clara Tauson
\n17) Belinda Bencic
\n18) Beatriz Haddad Maia
\n19) Elise Mertens
\n20) Linda Noskova
\n21) Magdalena Frech
\n22) Jelena Ostapenko
\n23) Sofia Kenin
\n24) Marta Kostyuk
\n25) Magda Linette
\n26) Ashlyn Krueger
\n27) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
\n28) McCartney Kessler
\n29) Olga Danilovic
\n30) Dayana Yastremska
\n31) Rebecca Sramkova
\n32) Peyton Stearns
\nLeylah Fernandez
\nAnna Kalinskaya
\nEmma Raducanu
\nMaya Joint
\nDayana Yastremska
\nKatie Boulter
\nAnastasia Potapova
\nMaria Tatjana
\nVeronika Kudermetova
\nLulu Sun
\nMarie Bouzkova
\nElina Avanesyan
\nAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova
\nJaqueline Cristian
\nNaomi Osaka
\nDanielle Collins
\nHailey Baptiste
\nAlex Eala
\nCamila Osorio
\nElena-Gabriela Ruse
\nAlycia Parks
\nEva Lys
\nJessica Bouzas Maneiro
\nLucia Bronzetti
\nPolina Kudermetova
\nAnn Li
\nLois Boisson
\nCaroline Dolehide
\nYuliia Starodubtseva
\nBarbora Krejcikova
\nSuzan Lamens
\nRenata Zarazua
\nMoyuka Uchijima
\nEmiliana Arango
\nKimberly Birrell
\nYulia Putintseva
\nWang Xinyu
\n(PR) Marketa Vondrousova
\n(PR) Sorana Cirstea
\n(PR) Lin Zhu
\n(PR) Anastasija Sevastova
\n(PR) Caty McNally
\n(WC) Bianca Andreesca
\n(WC) Eugenie Bouchard
\n(WC) Carson Branstine
\n(WC) Kayla Cross
\n(WC) Elizabeth Mandlik
\n(WC) Rebecca Marino
\n(WC) Victoria Mboko
\n(WC) Marina Stakusic
\nRemaining players to enter through qualifying draw<\/em><\/p>\n