by The Open of Canada 2025 has just lost another heavyweight, because the world n ° 2 Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the tournament. The Spaniard announced on Monday that he would not play in Toronto and would rather recover from an exhausting start on the tour.
“After many weeks of consecutive competition without rest, I will not be able to play in Toronto this year. I have small muscular problems and I have to recover physically and mentally for what comes then,” Alcaraz wrote on social networks. “At the tournament and my fans in Canada, I’m really sorry, I will see you next year!”
Alcaraz joins a certain number of high -ranking players who withdrew from the tournament, citing injuries and recovery. The tournament announced Sunday that Jannik Sinner, n ° 1 in the ATP ranking, and Novak Djokovic n ° 6 withdrew from the competition, citing injuries and rest. In addition, Jack Draper, classified n ° 5, will also miss the competition due to an arm injury.
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Last week, Sinner won his first Wimbledon title in a revenge match with high issues, which are highly watched against Alcaraz. Djokovic faced a quad injury that assigned his performance to Wimbledon.
With these three outings, plus Alcaraz, four of the first six male seeds will be absent from the competition in Simple in Toronto.
The Canada Open (officially known as the National Open Bank presented by Rogers due to sponsorships) is one of the nine classified tournaments like ATP Masters 1000, marking them just below the biglems in terms of importance. The competition generally welcomes most of the best competitors, although it is not uncommon for the players to remove one of them in order to rest.
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In the case of Alcaraz, he has already had a very busy year. The Spaniard radically won his first Open in France, made the final against Sinner in Wimbledon and won two other smaller titles (the Masters of Monte Carlo and the Italian Open) between the two.
With Alcaraz, Sinner and the others, the main prints in Toronto will probably be No. 3 Alexander Zverev and No. 4 Taylor Fritz – assuming that they do not also withdraw. Zverev is one step ahead of Fritz: the German won the Canada Open in 2017, while Fritz has not yet progressed after the third round.
N ° 7 Lorenzo Musetti and Holger Rune n ° 9 should also compete, while the best classified Canadians, Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime (classified n ° 27 and n ° 28, respectively), will try to win the trophy at home.
