Canada has one major event, The Rogers Cup. It's not even named after the country as the US Open is. The one benefit of having a national tournament is the right to pick wildcards, which lets a country as star-deprived as Canada give a few Canadians a chance to play in its biggest tournament.
Who is Frédéric Niemeyer? Few people seemed to know this Canadian who, ranked 487 in the world, was expected to give Federer little challenge. Federer hadn't played since Wimbledon. In the meanwhile, Mirka Vavrinec, Federer's wife had given birth to twins. Even were that not the case, Federer would probably not have played any of
Attending a match live isn't quite the same as watching it on TV. I went to the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in DC twice, once during qualifying and a little of the first round, and once for one of the semifinals. As far as sporting events go, tennis isn't terribly expensive. A Sunday ticket at
