WTA 1000 Montréal 8/7 - 8/13 2023

[ponchi101]

You know how the top players behave. If it is not a Slam, they will skip the entire tournament because, god forbid, they have to play 5 matches in one week.
Load management and all that BS.

[meganfernandez]

\op 50 players qualifying for a 1000? Is that normal for a 64-player draw? Seems rough,

FINALLY seeing the Qualie Entry List

46 Tsurenko, Lesia (UKR)
47 Parks, Alycia (USA)
48 Collins, Danielle (USA)
50 Giorgi, Camila (ITA) ?
54 Davis, Lauren (USA)
56 Fruhvirtova, Linda (CZE)
57 Navarro, Emma (USA)
59 Stearns, Peyton (USA)
60 Putintseva, Yulia (KAZ)
71 McNally, Caty (USA) ?
73 Boulter, Katie (GBR)
75 Trevisan, Martina (ITA)
76 Frech, Magdalena (POL)
81 Bucsa, Cristina (ESP)
85 Sorribes Tormo, Sara (ESP)
98 Burrage, Jodie (GBR)
103 Townsend, Taylor (USA)
103 Zvonareva, Vera (RUS) SR
111 Birrell, Kimberly (AUS)
113 Mandlik, Elizabeth (USA)
116 Krueger, Ashlyn (USA)
119 Yuan, Yue (CHN)
125 Day, Kayla (USA)
129 Bektas, Emina (USA)

Alternates
132 Bjorklund, Mirjam (SWE)
160 Sebov, Katherine (CAN)

It think it's pretty common for the Canada/Cincy combo

Everyone on tour wants to be able to eat at Cheesecake Factory every night

I meant they shouldn't have to qualify. There should be more spots in a 64-player draw for Top 50 players.

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

Doubles Draw

C. Gauff/J. Pegula (1)/BYE
M. Kato/A. Sutjiadi vs C. Garcia/P. Martic
M. Sherif/S. Stephens vs L. Siegemund/V. Zvonareva
L. Marozava/I. Gamarra Martins vs S. Aoyama/E. Shibahara (7)

N. Melichar-Martinez/E. Perez (4)/BYE
M. Bouzkova/L. Zhu vs M. Stakusic/C. Zhao
K. Pliskova/D. Vekic vsG. Dabrowski/E. Routliffe
L. Chan/Z. Yang vs H. Chan/G. Olmos (8)

D. Krawczyk/D. Schuurs (5) vs M. Ninomiya/S. Santamaria
A. Danilina/B. Mattek-Sands vs K. Muchova/M. Vondrousova
U. Eikeri/I. Neel vs A. Guarachi/M. Niculescu
BYE/K. Siniakova/L. Stefani (3)

L. Kichenok/J. Ostapenko (6) vs E. Bouchard/R. Marino
J. Brady/M. Keys vs N. Kichenok/A. Parks
M. Kostyuk/S. Zhang vs T. Mihalikova/Y. Xu
BYE/S. Hunter/E. Mertens (2)

[ti-amie]

Day 3 Order of Play

Court Central Starts at 12:30 PM

BLR V. AZARENKA (16) vs POL M. LINETTE
FOLLOWED BY
USA J. BRADY vs LAT J. OSTAPENKO
NOT BEFORE 7:00 PM
USA V. WILLIAMS vs USA M. KEYS (13)
FOLLOWED BY
GBR K. BOULTER vs CAN R. MARINO

Court Rogers Starts at 11:00 AM

CHN L. ZHU vs CZE K. PLISKOVA
FOLLOWED BY
ITA L. BRONZETTI vs SUI B. BENCIC (12)
NOT BEFORE 4:30 PM
USA S. STEPHENS vs UKR A. KALININA
NOT BEFORE 7:00 PM
BEL E. MERTENS vs RUS D. KASATKINA (10)
FOLLOWED BY
USA A. PARKS vs USA L. DAVIS

Court 9 Starts at 11:00 AM

ITA J. PAOLINI vs CRO D. VEKIC
FOLLOWED BY
FRA V. GRACHEVA vs ROU S. CIRSTEA
FOLLOWED BY
JPN M. KATO/INA A. SUTJIADI vs FRA C. GARCIA/CRO P. MARTIC

Court 5 Starts at 11:00 AM

USA K. DAY vs CZE M. BOUZKOVA
FOLLOWED BY
UKR M. KOSTYUK/CHN S. ZHANG vs SVK T. MIHALIKOVA/CHN Y. XU
FOLLOWED BY
USA D. KRAWCZYK/NED D. SCHUURS (5) vs JPN M. NINOMIYA/USA S. SANTAMARIA

Court 6 Starts at 11:00 AM

BLR L. MAROZAVA/BRA I. GAMARRA MARTINS vs JPN S. AOYAMA/JPN E. SHIBAHARA (7)
FOLLOWED BY
KAZ A. DANILINA/USA B. MATTEK-SANDS vs CZE K. MUCHOVA/CZE M. VONDROUSOVA

[skatingfan]

I meant they shouldn't have to qualify. There should be more spots in a 64-player draw for Top 50 players.

56-player draw with 8 qualifying spots, and 5 wildcards.

[ashkor87]

But why 56? Why not 64?

[skatingfan]

But why 56? Why not 64?

Most of the tour events give the top players a first round bye. In theory it free them up to do other things to promote the event in the first few days of the tournament. Seems like mostly ATP 500's that don't have first round byes, but their only 32 player draws so only 5 rounds anyways.

[skatingfan]

Weather forecast calls for rain from tomorrow morning, and until Wednesday afternoon.

[ashkor87]

Am very curious to see how Vondrousova does..my sense is that heavy topspin is not effective on hard courts..unless it is coupled with the aggression and sharp angles like Swiatek...

[ponchi101]

QF's should be her goal, for this tournament. She may still be enjoying her Wimby trophy, so I would not expect too much.

[JTContinental]

Including Wimbledon, Vondrousova has 2 career titles, so I expect we’ll be back to more of the same

[skatingfan]

Tennis Canada really knows how to pander to the top players. For years they call the tournament the Rogers Cup while Federer is playing, and now that he is retired they call the stadium in Montreal Iga Stadium.

[meganfernandez]

But why 56? Why not 64?

Exactly. It's so the top 8 seeds can have a bye and only play 5 rounds to win. But most players don't reach the finals and would only play 2-4 rounds anyway, so the byes seem silly to me.

[skatingfan]

Exactly. It's so the top 8 seeds can have a bye and only play 5 rounds to win. But most players don't reach the finals and would only play 2-4 rounds anyway, so the byes seem silly to me.

It's now only for this year, and next year because in 2025 this tournament, and Cincinnati will be 10 events with 96 player draws.