Rogers Cup – WTA Women's Tennis Tickets

About Rogers Cup - WTA Women's Tennis

Many of the world's greatest tennis players will come to Toronto on August 3-11 for the 2019 Rogers Cup women's tournament, the premier event in Canadian tennis. The event is designated as a Premier 5 tournament by the Women's Tennis Association, with the winner receiving $2,369,000 and earning 900 points in the WTA scoring system. 

Founded in 1881 as the Canadian Championships, the Rogers Cup is third to only Wimbledon and the U.S. Open as the oldest major tennis tournament. Women's competition began in 1892, with women's doubles debuting in 1968, the same year the Canadian Championships became known as the Canadian Open. The women's tournament has been sponsored by Rogers Communications since 2001, and the men's and women's tournaments have been collectively known as the Rogers Cup since 2005.

There are two separate but concurrent events that make up the Rogers Cup, which alternate between Toronto and Montreal every year. For 2019, the Rogers Cup WTA event will take place at Toronto's Aviva Centre, a 12,500-seat venue on the campus of York University. The 8,000-seat IGA Stadium in Montreal will host the men's tournament in 2019 and 2021 and the women's tournament in 2020 and 2022. Opened in 2004, the Aviva Centre was known as the Rexall Centre until 2015 and was the tennis venue for the 2015 Pan American Games.

Romanian Simona Halep won the Rogers Cup in 2016 and 2018, joining such noted multiple tournament champions as Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Monica Seles, and Justine Henin. The record for singles titles in this event is a whopping 10 by Canadian athlete Lois Moyes Bickle, who dominated what was then known as the Canadian Championships in the early 20th century. Martina Navratilova is close behind with six Canadian doubles and three Canadian singles titles.