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==History==
The '''Canadian Open''', currently sponsored as '''Rogers Cup''' or '''Coupe Rogers''', is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour as a Masters 1000 event, and of Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour as a Premier 5 event. The tournaments alternate from year to year between the cities of Montréal, Québec, Canada and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Since 1980 in odd-numbered years the men's tournament is held in Montréal, while the women's tournament is held in Toronto, and vice versa in even-numbered years. Before 2011, they were held during separate weeks in the July–August period, now the two competitions are held during the same week in August. Because of the event not being held in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the men's tournament will now be held in Montréal in even-numbered years and the women's tournament in Toronto in odd-numbered years, and still vice versa.
The men's tournament began in 1881, and was held at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club, while the women's competition was first held in 1892. Of the major tennis tournaments in the world today, only Wimbledon (1877) and the US Open (1881) have been around longer. Prior to 1968 the tournament was known as the Canadian National Championships. Between 1970 and 1989 it was a major event of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour as part of the Grand Prix Super Series. The tournament was sponsored for a number of years by tobacco brands. In the 1970s, Rothmans International was the chief sponsor, followed by Player's Limited in the 1980s, and then du Maurier from 1997 to 2000. Federal legislation, however, then came into effect that banned tobacco advertising. Rogers Communications, a Canadian communications and media company, took over as the new presenting sponsor. The event was played on clay until 1979 when it switched permanently to hard courts. Both the men's and women's tournaments were played as a single combined tournament at the National Tennis Centre in Toronto until 1981, when the men's tournament was played at the Jarry Park Stadium in Montréal for the first time. Similarly 1982 was the first year in which the women's tournament was played in Montréal.
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