First Serve: Canadians on the pro tennis tours this week

Most of the top players on the WTA and ATP Tour are still taking a post-Wimbledon break.

But with two events on Canadian soil, as well as the regular Tour events, there are Canadians all OVER the place this week.

First up is newly minted Wimbledon doubles champion Vasek Pospisil, who took a few days off at home in Florida and then traveled all the way to Bogotá, Colombia for the ATP Tour event there.

Pospisil was a semi-finalist in Bogotá a year ago, so he has some ranking points to defend. He's the No. 3 seed in singles (with a bye in the first round), and is also playing doubles with the veteran Czech they call "The Worm", Radek Stepanek.

The pair are seeded No. 1. Pickering, Ont.'s Adil Shamasdin (who played with Canadian doubles legend Daniel Nestor last week at the grass-court tournament in Rhode Island and lost in the quarter-finals), is also in Bogotá, paying with Divij Sharan of India.

Richmond Hill, Ont.'s Peter Polansky is in the singles draw as well.

The only other Canadian competing at the Tour level this week is Gloucester, Ont.'s Gabriela Dabrowski, who is the No. 2 seed in doubles in Istanbul with partner Alicja Rosolska of Poland. She also is in the singles qualifying.

The rest of the Canadians – and they are a legion – are competing on home soil.

In Granby, Quebec, there is a joint event that includes a $25,000 ITF tournament for the women and a $50,000 Challenger event for the men.

Among the women are Françoise Abanda, fresh off her finals appearance at a similar tournament in Gatineau, Quebec this week and Stéphanie Dubois, on the comeback trail after a long injury layoff.

The other Canadians in singles are wild cards Charlotte Robillard-Millette, Carol Zhao, Gloria Liang and Sonja Molnar

For the men, 2012 Wimbledon junior champ Filip Peliwo leads a large contingent.

The other Canadian men are Steven Diez, Philip Bester and wild cards Erik Chvojka, Isade Juneau, Brayden Schnur and Tommy Mylnikov.

There are plenty more in the qualifying, and in the doubles.

As well, at Stanley Park in Vancouver, there are a pair of entry-level pro events featuring many more Canucks. It's a $10,000 tournament for the women, a $15,000 Futures event for the men.

Bookmark this link to keep up with the Canadian results all week.

We'll try to make it down to Granby at least once to keep you posted on what the next wave of Canadian players – and a few familiar faces – are doing.