Several big names have pulled out of the Canadian Open, with Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic withdrawing<\/a>, as well as Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Jack Draper<\/a>.<\/p>\n Multiple confirmed no-shows have meant something will happen in Toronto for just the fifth time in history.<\/p>\n Since the inception of the format in 1990, there have only been four occasions where no former Grand Slam champions have featured in the top eight seeds at an ATP<\/a> Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n At the 2025 Canadian Open, without Djokovic, Sinner or Alcaraz, it will happen for a fifth time. <\/p>\n ATP Masters 1000 events with no Grand Slam winners in the top eight seeds:<\/p>\n Paris 2006Miami 2021Toronto 2021Cincinnati 2021Toronto 2025<\/p>\n Appearing at the Masters tournament is Daniil Medvedev<\/a>, who is a former major winner, but is seeded 10th. <\/p>\n The only other active Grand Slam champions on the tour are Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic; however, neither will play in Toronto. <\/p>\n Alexander Zverev<\/a>, Taylor Fritz, Lorenzo Musetti and Ben Shelton<\/a> will make up seeds one through four, all of whom have reached at least a Grand Slam semi-final.<\/p>\n Both Shelton and Musetti are looking to clinch their first Masters 1000 crown. <\/p>\n Seeds five to eight are Holger Rune, Andrey Rublev, Frances Tiafoe and Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n Ruud has come close to winning a major on several occasions, having made the French Open final in both 2022 and 2023, and the US Open final in 2022. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the conclusion of the Washington Open, the Canadian Open, an ATP Masters 1000 event, will get underway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,28389,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-42344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-canadian-open","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2165996776-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Mert Alper Dervis\/Anadolu via Getty ImagesHistory to be made at the Canadian Open this year<\/p>\n![\"Alexander](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2220112677-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Christian Kaspar-Bartke\/Getty ImagesThe top eight seeds at this year\u2019s Canadian Open<\/p>\n