Talk About Tennis 2.0

Tournament: National Bank Open presented by Rogers
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dates: August 6 - August 12, 2024
Level: WTA 1000
Surface: Hard

Seed Player Entry Ranking

1 Iga Swiatek 1
2 Coco Gauff 2
3 Aryna Sabalenka 3
4 Elena Rybakina 4
5 Jessica Pegula 5
6 Marketa Vondrousova 6
7 Jasmine Paolini 7
8 Qinwen Zheng 8
9 Maria Sakkari 9
10 Ons Jabeur 10
11 Danielle Collins 11
12 Daria Kasatkina 12
13 Madison Keys 13
14 Jelena Ostapenko 14
15 Liudmila Samsonova 15
16 Victoria Azarenka 16
Emma Navarro 17
Anna Kalinskaya 18
Marta Kostyuk 19
Beatriz Haddad Maia 20
Elina Svitolina 21
Ekaterina Alexandrova 22
Caroline Garcia 24
Leylah Fernandez 25
Linda Noskova 26
Dayana Yastremska 27
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 28
Katie Boulter 29
Diana Shnaider 30
Sorana Cirstea 31
Barbora Krejcikova 32
Elise Mertens 33
Karolina Muchova 34
Yulia Putintseva 35
Katerina Siniakova 36
Donna Vekic 37
Veronika Kudermetova 38
Yue Yuan 39
Marie Bouzkova 40
Anastasia Potapova 41
Xinyu Wang 42
Elisabetta Cocciaretto 43
Magda Linette 44
Paula Badosa 34 (SR)
Bianca Andreescu WC
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Word on the street is that Halep is getting a WC...

Wonder, though, how many of these will actually show up, rather than stay back in Paris and watch the rest of the Games...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 11:14 am Wonder, though, how many of these will actually show up, rather than stay back in Paris and watch the rest of the Games...

Or take a vacation before Cincy and the US Open. Anyone who gets to a medal round in Paris will have a tough time playing their R1 in Montreal a few days later. Depends on who and how much they need the points and money.

I was thinking Roger and Mirka have shown us that hanging about at the Olympics is a great way to meet someone...maybe another reason to stay back in Paris!! It is a romantic city, after all, isn't it?

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:06 pm Word on the street is that Halep is getting a WC...

I read she's out with a knee injury, but who knows what to believe about her these days

JTContinental wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 7:05 pm

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:06 pm Word on the street is that Halep is getting a WC...

I read she's out with a knee injury, but who knows what to believe about her these days

I think your information is the latest JTC. It seems she wants WC's into the MD or she's not showing (for whatever reason)

Jacob Pacheco
@JacobPacheco6
BREAKING:

Naomi Osaka, Rebecca Marino, and Marina Stakusic have been given main draw wild cards for the National Bank Open!

Eugenie Bouchard, Katherine Sebov & Carson Branstine(!!) have been given QUALIFYING wild cards. (So proud of Branstine, she deserves it) , no Victoria Mboko, though...

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 10:21 pm Jacob Pacheco
@JacobPacheco6
BREAKING:

Naomi Osaka, Rebecca Marino, and Marina Stakusic have been given main draw wild cards for the National Bank Open!

Eugenie Bouchard, Katherine Sebov & Carson Branstine(!!) have been given QUALIFYING wild cards. (So proud of Branstine, she deserves it) , no Victoria Mboko, though...

Mboko's playing in Europe - won an ITF event this weekend, and playing in Zagreb in two weeks.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:29 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 7:05 pm

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:06 pm Word on the street is that Halep is getting a WC...

I read she's out with a knee injury, but who knows what to believe about her these days

I think your information is the latest JTC. It seems she wants WC's into the MD or she's not showing (for whatever reason)

A former champion deserves respect ?

Rybakina out.

From the Kazakh Tennis Federation

5. Elena has entered the tournament in Toronto, which will start on August 6. Does she plan to participate in it?

— For tournaments of such a level as Toronto, all top tennis players are automatically registered several months before the tournament, as it is a requirement of the WTA.

Unfortunately, Elena will not be able to play in Toronto for health reasons, as she has not fully recovered from her illness and has not even been on the court yet. Her team is currently preparing medical documents to formalize her withdrawal from the Toronto
tournament.

There goes one THRtNY choice for nothing.
I give up on her. Love her, but it seems to me she is always injured or sick. And this has been going on now for some time. She needs some top notch doctor to check what is really wrong with her.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 3:33 am There goes one THRtNY choice for nothing.
I give up on her. Love her, but it seems to me she is always injured or sick. And this has been going on now for some time. She needs some top notch doctor to check what is really wrong with her.

I think something is/has been something going on in her personal life. My gut tells me some kind of abuse or outside pressure she can't escape. I say this with no proof, just a feeling.

She doesn't fit the pattern. As you say, there is no proof.
The examples we have had in the past always showed some pattern. Jim Pierce, Damir Dokic, or Lucic's father were deranged figures in the player's box. Elena's coach may be a bit intense too and sometimes his comments to her are a bit rough, but he does not strike me as an abuser.
That something may be ongoing with her personal life cannot be ruled out. But I would be very careful with that possibility because, nowadays, that is a major accusation. That needs a good deal of proof.

Something going on doesn't mean she's abused by someone. Lots of other things could be going on in someone's personal life.