Before I move on to this week’s ATP Tour tennis action at the Canadian Masters 1000 Series in Toronto, I’ll provide a quick rundown of last week’s ATP Tour tennis action at Kitzbuhel, Washington and Los Cabos. At the time of writing Medvedev (advised @ 10/1) was due to contest the Washington final against the unseeded Kyrgios who became only the second unseeded player to reach the Washington final in the last decade. This will be the sixth finalist in a row I have tipped and with only one winner in this run, hopefully, Medvedev will win and change fortunes on this occasion.

At Kitzbuhel in Austria on Saturday top-seed and home star Thiem won his first Kitzbuhel title beating Gstaad winner and Spanish veteran Ramos-Vinolas 7-6 6-1. At Los Cabos, third seed Schwartzman bounced back to form, winning his first ATP Tour title of the season. He beat fifth seed Fritz in the final, which was his third final in his last four tournaments.

On to this week’s ATP Tennis action and the tour moves to Canada for the Rogers Cup Masters 1000 series in Toronto. World number one and four-time Canadian Masters 1000 Series winner Djokovic has chosen to miss this year’s tournament as does two-time winner Roger Federer, which leaves top-seed, four-time winner and defending champion Nadal as the clear tournament favourite. While Djokovic and Federer reduce the quality of the field it’s still a competitive one, with the rest of the world’s top-ten taking part like second seed Thiem, third seed and 2017 champion Zverev, fourth seed and 2018 finalist Tsitsipas, fifth seed and 2016 finalist Nishikori, sixth seed Kachanov, seventh seed Fognini and eighth seed Medvedev.

The top two seeds have performed reasonably well at the Rogers Cup over the last decade; the top seed won four of the last ten titles (last Nadal 2018) and they were a losing finalist once during this period (Djokovic 2015). The second seed has won two of the last ten titles (last Murray 2015) and they were a losing finalist twice during this period (last Federer 2017).

Seeded players have a very strong record at the Rogers Cup; a player seeded no higher than thirteen won the last ten titles, a player seeded no higher than four won nine of the last ten titles and a seeded player no higher than fourteen was a losing finalist ten times over the last decade. Unseeded players have not performed well having never won the title over the last decade and they reached one final during this period, which was Tsitsipas last year. To find out who I’m tipping for this year’s title please choose one of the Pay Pal buttons on the blog home page.