Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic Headline National Bank Open Player List in Montreal
Sabalenka leads a field with 72 of the top 75 players entered, while defending champion Victoria Mboko withdraws with a knee injury.
- Top-Ranked Aryna Sabalenka headlines the 96-player list for the National Bank Open, a tournament that will crown a new champion after the recent withdrawal of 2025 winner Victoria Mboko.
- Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., confirmed Tuesday she cannot defend her title after suffering a left knee injury last month at the HSBC Championships.
- Joining Sabalenka are second-ranked Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and third-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland, alongside fourth-ranked Jessica Pegula, who won back-to-back NBO titles in 2023 and 2024.
- Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., will compete as a wild-card entry; tournament director Karl Hale said the 12-day format offers fans "more opportunities than ever to enjoy elite tennis."
- The ATP Tour's National Bank Open in Montreal features World No. 1 Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, staged three weeks after the All England Club finals.
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71 of the world's 72 best players, including #1 Jannik Sinner and Quebec's Félix Auger-Aliassime, will be from the Open National Bank in Montreal in August.
Winnipeg Free Press
Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic headline National Bank Open player list in Montreal
MONTREAL - World No.1 Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic highlight the 96-player list for this summer’s National Bank Open, one year after several top players pulled out of the ATP 1000 tournament.
The Toronto Star
Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka headlines 96-player entry list for NBO Toronto tourney
TORONTO - Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka headlines the 96-player list for the National Bank Open, a tournament that will have a new champion this year after the recent withdrawal of Canada's Victoria Mboko.
Tennis Canada announced this Thursday that Italian Jannik Sinner and German Alexander Zverev will play the Canada Open of 2026 in Montréal, a tournament that will feature 71 of the 72 best tennis players on the ATP circuit and that will premiere in the city its new extended 12-day format and 96 players in [...] Entry Sinner and Zverev will lead the Canada Open in Montreal was first published in Information Focus.
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