Today, Tennis Canada announced the top seeds for the 2024 National Bank Open presented by Rogers (NBO) in Toronto and Montreal. On the WTA Tour, Iga Swiatek of Poland headlines the player field in Toronto as the No. 1 seed, holding the top spot in the WTA rankings since the beginning of the calendar year. On the men’s side, World No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy will enter Montreal as the highest seeded player. He climbed to the top of the ATP rankings earlier this year after reaching the final of Roland-Garros. The seedings ahead of the 2024 National Bank Open follow the ATP and WTA’s official rankings as of today, July 29, 2024.
In Toronto, Swiatek enters the field at the NBO as the top-ranked player for the third straight year, with her eyes set on her first Canadian title. The four-time French Open champion will be in tough competition, with second-seeded Coco Gauff of the United States returning to the tournament as a US Open champion and seeking to better her 2023 singles result of reaching the quarter-finals last year in Montreal. Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, Italian superstar Jasmine Paolini, and reigning NBO champion Jessica Pegula (USA) are also among the top seeds in Toronto this August.
“This is a very strong player list — in fact, the strongest one we’ve ever had in an Olympic year,” said Karl Hale, Tournament Director of the National Bank Open in Toronto. “With the complete list of the WTA Tour’s top 16 players joining us at Sobeys Stadium this year, headlined by Swiatek, Gauff, and Sabalenka, the tournament could go in any direction. The support surrounding tennis this year has been overwhelmingly positive, and fans are in for a real treat with the talent touching down in Canada this August.”
