Rogers Cup – Tuesday preview

MONTREAL – The men in Toronto were hit by some rain delays on Monday's opening day, but managed to get through most of the scheduled matches.

It looks like both events may get hit with delays today, with the orders of play the busiest of the week.

THE WEATHER

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Toronto:

Montreal:

CANADIANS IN ACTION

Montreal (order of play and results here):
[5] Genie Bouchard (CAN) vs. [Q] Shelby Rogers (USA) (7 p.m. - Stadium Court)
Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) vs. [Q] Stéphanie Dubois (CAN) (last match - Court Banque Nationale)

Andrea Petkovic (GER) / Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) vs. [WC] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Shahar Peer (ISR)

Toronto (order of play and results here):
[12] Richard Gasquet (FRA) vs Vasek Pospisil (CAN) (3 p.m. - Stadium Court)
[2] Roger Federer (SUI) vs [WC] Peter Polansky (CAN) (7 p.m. - Stadium Court)
Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs [Q] Brayden Schnur (CAN) (Grandstand - 11 a.m.)
[WC] Frank Dancevic (CAN) vs [SE] Donald Young (USA) (Grandstand - approx. 1 p.m.)

Richard Gasquet / Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) vs [WC] Vasek Pospisil (CAN) / Jack Sock (USA) (Court 1)
[WC] Frank Dancevic / Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Marin Cilic (CRO) / Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) (Court 1)

SEEDED PLAYERS IN ACTION

Toronto
[2] Roger Federer (SUI) (vs. Polansky)
[3] Stan Wawrinka (SUI) (vs. Paire)
[11] Ernests Gulbis (LAT) (vs. Sousa)
[12] Richard Gasquet (FRA) (vs. Pospisil)
[16] Fabio Fognini (ITA) (vs. Youzhny)
[17] Tommy Robredo (ESP) (vs. Kohlschreiber)

Montreal
[3] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) (vs. Zahlavova Strycova)
[5] Genie Bouchard (CAN) (vs. Rogers)
[8] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) (vs. Cornet)
[9] Ana Ivanovic (SRB) (vs. Bacsinszky)
[11] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) (vs. Hantuchova)
[14] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) (vs. Jovanovski)
[16] Andrea Petkovic (GER) (vs. Giorgi)

POTENTIAL UPSETS AND INTRIGUE

The entire Stadium Court schedule in Montreal has question marks. Venus Williams, who plays Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, looked pretty ragged during practice Monday, doubling over several times and not pushing it hard. ... Agnieszka Radwanska made a very early exit in Stanford last week. ... Genie Bouchard hasn't played a match since Wimbledon and is making her summer hard-court debut. ... And Victoria Azarenka, still on the comeback trail, has a worthy foe in Alizé Cornet of France.

Samantha Stosur, who lost to a 16-year-old qualifier in the first round last week, faces a rather more accomplished qualifier, Monica Puig of Puerto Rico, in the first round this week. ... Svetlana Kuznetsova, who won her first tournament in four years Sunday night in Washington, D.C., faces a rested and talented Madison Keys.

In Toronto, Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil faces Frenchman Richard Gasquet for the second time in four days (and squares off against him in doubles, too). That's a tough ask; Pospisil edged Gasquet 7-5 in the third set in D.C. ... Meanwhile, Federer opens against hometown favorite Peter Polansky. He knows all about this; a few years ago in Montreal, he did the same against a young kid named Pospisil. He gave the crowd exactly what they wanted - a close match in which he prevailed. ... Frank Dancevic faces an in-form Donald Young, who received a special exemption into the event because he went deep into the draw in D.C. and couldn't get there for the qualifying. But he can't argue his draw. ...

YOUNG GUN ALERT

Aussie teenager Nick Kyrgios makes his hard-court debut, having returned home after a great Wimbledon in which he upset Rafael Nadal ... Austrian one-hander Dominic Thiem, just 20, also is on the schedule. We'll add 21-year-old Jack Sock and 19-year-old Canadian Brayden Schnur to that mix.

NEWS AND NOTES

No. 1 Japanese player Kei Nishikori, who pulled out of the Toronto event late because of a foot injury, wasn't kidding around. Nishikori had a cyst removed from the right foot Monday and will also miss the Cincinnati event next week. ... Another Japanese player, Kurumi Nara, reached the final in D.C. last week (losing to Kuznetsova) but withdrew from Montreal with a hip injury. She's replaced by lucky loser Karolina Pliskova. ... Much was made when Aussie Marino Matosevic retired from his final-round qualifying match against countryman Thanassi Kokkinakis after winning the first set. He already knew he was guaranteed a lucky loser spot with the withdrawal of Nishikori. But it turns out he may have been unfairly maligned for tanking the match; Matosevic withdrew, citing a right shoulder injury, and was replaced by another lucky loser, Malek Jaziri of Tunisia.

TENNIS ON TV

Same routine applies Tuesday: the men are on Sportsnet East, West, Ontario and Pacific; the women are on ... Sportsnet One. Here's the schedule. There will be 18 matches streamed on TennisTV.com.