Canadian tennis team selected for next month's Pan-Am Games in Toronto

As the host nation, Canada will have a full squad of six players for the Pan-Am Games, which will take place from July 10-26 at the Canadian Tennis Centre, site of the Rogers Cup just a few weeks later.

For the women, Montreal's Françoise Abanda, Gloucester, Ont.'s Gabriela Dabrowski and Toronto's Sharon Fichman will play. On the men's side, it will be North Vancouver's Philip Bester and Peter Polansky and Brayden Schnur, who both hail from the Toronto area.

Dabrowski and Fichman, an experienced team together in Fed Cup, will team up for doubles. The men's team will be Bester and Schnur, with Dabrowski and Bester the mixed-doubles entry.

No Frank Dancevic or Filip Peliwo on the roster. Dancevic might be needed for Davis Cup detail in Belgium, the week after Wimbledon, so that conflicts directly. Peliwo will be with the Davis Cup team, which plays in Belgium the week after Wimbledon – i.e., right in the middle of the Pan Am Games tennis event.

Polansky hasn't played any tennis since a Challenger last September in California, having undergone wrist surgery he originally thought would keep out only until February. As a result, his ATP Tour ranking is down to No. 409.

Bester, who had hip surgery in 2013 and is still coming back from that, has posted some results lately at lower-level events. Schnur, 19, is in his second year at the University of North Carolina, having started there in January, 2014.

It's a major upgrade from Canada's last participation in the Pan-Am Games, in 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Canada had just a two-player team; Dabrowski, and an unknown player named Christopher Klingemann. They played only the singles, and the mixed doubles. Klingemann, then 26 and born in Seattle, Washington, hadn't played a pro event for nearly a year.