Coverage of the tournament in Toronto begins on Monday
Tuesday 7 August 2018 16:02, UK
Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic and world No 1 Rafael Nadal are among the stars at this year's Rogers Cup, live on Sky Sports Arena.
World No 3 Alexander Zverev, Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson and Grand Slam winners Juan Martin del Potro and Marin Cilic will feature, as will ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov and British No 1 Kyle Edmund.
Roger Federer has withdrawn as has Andy Murray following his exhausting quarter-final run in Washington with the tournament starting on Monday, August 6 in Toronto.
John Isner, who has been tipped for success in the hard-court season, makes the trip to Canada as does 2018 French Open finalist Dominic Thiem and entertaining Australian No 1 Nick Kyrgios.
Nadal is this year's top seed at the Masters 1000 event and will receive a bye into the second round as will second-seed Zverev, who won the Rogers Cup last year by beating Federer 6-3 6-4 in the final.
Del Potro is third seed, opening against the winner of Kei Nishikori v Robin Haase, while Kevin Anderson is seeded fourth and will play Andrey Rublev or a qualifier in the second round.
Other players with a second-round bye include fifth-seed Dimitrov, sixth-seed Cilic, seventh-seed Thiem and eight-seed Isner while ninth-seed Djokovic faces Chung Hyeon in the first round.
Edmund opens against Argentina's Diego Schwartzman on Monday while in the women's draw, British No 1 Johanna Konta will play Jelena Ostapenko following her quarter-final run at the Silicon Valley Classic.
She joins top-seed Simona Halep, recent Wimbledon winner Angelique Kerber, defending champion Elina Svitolina as well as Caroline Wozniacki and Venus Williams, while sister Serena has withdrawn due to personal reasons.
The Toronto-based tournament will begin on the conclusion of the Citi Open in Washington - which is also live on Sky Sports Arena - and is followed by the Cincinnati Masters on August 13, while the final Grand Slam of the year - the US Open at Flushing Meadows - starts on August 27.
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