World No. 1 Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic have withdrawn from the Nationwide Financial institution Open offered by Rogers.
Tennis Canada introduced Friday that neither headliner will compete in Montreal after each gamers have been included on the entry checklist for the ATP Masters 1000 event at IGA Stadium from Aug. 1-13.
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz had already been left off the participant checklist as he continues to get better from a proper wrist harm that pressured him to overlook the French Open and Wimbledon.
French Open champion and Wimbledon runner-up Alexander Zverev will now be the event’s high seed.
Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime might be seeded second, making him the highest-seeded Canadian within the event’s historical past.
Sinner, Djokovic and Alcaraz — the three greatest attracts in males’s tennis — additionally missed final 12 months’s occasion in Toronto, when the 12-day event started simply two weeks after Wimbledon. Event officers anticipated fewer withdrawals this 12 months, with the occasion beginning three weeks after the All England Membership finals.
“After fastidiously contemplating all of the components along with my crew, we have now made the troublesome resolution to withdraw from Montreal,” Sinner stated in a press release supplied by Tennis Canada.
“It’s by no means straightforward to overlook such an essential occasion, however we consider that is the suitable resolution to prioritize my well being. I’m dissatisfied to not be there, however I sit up for returning to Montreal sooner or later.”
The 24-year-old Italian and the 39-year-old Djokovic might return to motion on the Cincinnati Open, with main-draw play starting the day the Nationwide Financial institution Open ends, earlier than the U.S. Open in late August.
