The seventh WTA 1000 tournament of the season is due to get underway in Montreal, with seven of the world\u2019s top 10 singles players in action.<\/p>\n
At last year\u2019s tournament \u2013 held in Toronto \u2013 Jessica Pegula defeated Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 to claim her third WTA 1000 tournament and her sixth WTA singles title overall.<\/p>\n
The event will take place from July 27 \u2013 August 7 at Montreal\u2019s IGA Stadium.<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek lead the way as the top two seeds, with world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka having withdrawn before the draw was made.<\/p>\n
Other top names include defending champion Pegula, Mirra Andreeva, Anisimova, Madison Keys, and Emma Raducanu.<\/p>\n
Wildcards include 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu and 18-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n
World No 2 Coco Gauff leads the top section of the draw, and will likely face former world No 7 Danielle Collins in her opening match, should the American get past a qualifier. The two have never faced each other.<\/p>\n
In the third round, the one-time Grand Slam champion is projected to face 29th seed Olga Daniolvic, and either Sofia Kenin or Diana Shnaider in the last 16.<\/p>\n
Should Gauff make the quarter-finals, she is projected to face seventh seed Jasmine Paolini, who has won both of their last two meetings \u2013 albeit on clay.<\/p>\n
Other possibilities include 12th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, 18th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia, and 26th seed Ashlyn Krueger.<\/p>\n
Fourth seed Mirra Andreeva headlines the bottom section of Gauff\u2019s half, with the Russian being projected to face off against American Emma Navarro in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
Iga Swiatek leads the bottom half of the women\u2019s singles draw, also benefitting from a bye in the first round as a result of being seeded.<\/p>\n
The newly-crowned Wimbledon champion will open against a qualifier or Yulia Putintseva \u2013 the very player who last beat Swiatek at SW19.<\/p>\n
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is projected to face the former world No 1 in the third round, with either 16th seed Clara Tauson or 21st seed Magdalena Frech likely waiting afterwards.<\/p>\n
Australian Open champion Madison Keys has landed in Swiatek\u2019s quarter of the draw, and may clash with the six-time Grand Slam champion in the last eight, should the American get past the other seeds in her section \u2013 such as Karolina Muchova and Belinda Bencic.<\/p>\n
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