{"id":15580,"date":"2025-07-22T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15580\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:14:10","slug":"germanys-zverev-united-states-gauff-named-top-seeds-for-national-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15580\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Zverev, United States&#8217; Gauff named top seeds for National Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Germany&#8217;s Alexander Zverev and American Coco Gauff have been announced as the top seeds of the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s sides of the upcoming National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev, ranked No. 3 in the world, occupies the top spot with No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy, No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, No. 5 Jack Draper of the United States and 24-time Grand Slam champion and sixth-ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia all having withdrawn from the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All four players cited injury or need for recovery following the Wimbledon Grand Slam event which ended on July 13 with Sinner defeating Alcaraz for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., are the 24th and 25th seeds. Montrealer Gabriel Diallo is the 30th seed for the men&#8217;s tournament in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Gauff, a two-time Grand Slam champion and No. 2 in the world, holds the top spot for the women&#8217;s tournament in Montreal. World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus withdrew last week due to fatigue. There are no Canadians in the top 32 for the women&#8217;s event in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The top-32 seeds from both sides will have first-round byes in the tournament that runs from Saturday through Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 22, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8211; Germany&#8217;s Alexander Zverev and American Coco Gauff have been announced as the top seeds of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-15580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}