 Starting next week we have a combined event on the ATP and WTA, the Canadian Open, which is a big tournament leading into the US Open and a big part of the US Open series and it's a very unique event and we're going to go through everything you need to know about the Canadian Open, its history and everything going on next week in terms of the tournament itself. So the Canadian Open was founded back in 1881 and is the second oldest tournament behind Wimbledon. It's been around for over a hundred years and was actually a clay court event up until 1979 which is kind of strange because it's one of the staples for the US Open series going into the US Open and as I mentioned it's an ATP 1000 and WTA 1000 event meaning it's a big deal in terms of outside of the slams, one of the biggest tournaments in the world. Dandomevedev and Camilla Georgie are the defending champions of this event so they've got a lot of points to defend at these tournaments. It's actually a very unique event because both tournaments are held in Canada but they're not held at the same venue. The men play in Montreal and the women play at Toronto and every second year they swap it around so it's a little bit of a unique event. The venue in Toronto is actually consisting of 12 outdoor hard courts, category three hard courts which means it's a medium speed court with the main stadium being the Sorbet Stadium which holds up to 12,500 people when it sells out whereas the venue over in Montreal it also has 12 outdoor hard courts and they are all category three which is a medium speed court with the IGA Stadium being its centre court which holds up to 11,800 people and its court number one holds up to 4,000 people so two large stadiums in the venue. Both tournaments will be using Hawkeye on every single court available. Having a look at the prize money for this event on the men's side the quarter finalists will be getting $74,000. A semi-final will get you $121,000. If you make the final you're gonna get $211,000 and if you win the whole thing you'll win $370,000. On the women's side making a quarter final will get you $41,000. A semi-final will get you $87,000. The final will bag you $164,000 and the winner will get a cool $221,000 as well as lifting the trophy. The points distribution is a little bit different as well from the ATP and the WTA. Make a quarter final on the ATP you'll get 180 points. A semi-final will get you 360 points. A final will get you 600 points and of course as the name suggests winning the tournament will get you a thousand points total. On the WTA if you make a quarter final you'll get 190 points. Make a semi-final will be 350 points. The final will get you 585 points and if you win the whole thing you get 900 points for this event. So a little bit different on the ATP and WTA in terms of those points distribution and the prize money as well. The men's draw is actually a little bit smaller than the women's draw with 46 players playing in the main draw which consists of about six qualifiers and three wild cards that we go off last year's tournament. 16 seeds with all 16 seeds getting a buy in the first round so that's why it's a smaller tournament. On the women's side there'll be 56 players in the main draw with around eight qualifiers, five wild cards if it goes off last year's tournament. There'll also be 16 seeds in this draw but only the top eight get a buy in the first round. So now that that is all out of the way we have to wait for the draw ceremony which will be happening in the next couple of days and also the draw preview as well but let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win these two tournaments bit of a prediction early on who's going to set their US Open series up with a win.