National Bank Open Draw is Live: The Hard-Court Swing Starts Now
The 2026 National Bank Open draw is live on Brckt. Fill out your bracket now, then get Cincinnati and the US Open on your calendar.
Grass season is behind us, and the tour has landed back on hard courts. The 2026 National Bank Open draw is live on Brckt, which means your bracket can be filled out right now.
Fill out your National Bank Open bracket
This is the start of a jam packed 5 weeks in the tennis calendar. Two 1000-level events back to back, then New York. Here’s everything you need on the calendar.
National Bank Open: Picks Open Now
The draw is live and picks close Sunday
- Draw size: 96, men’s and women’s
- Main draw begins: Sunday, August 2 at 11:00 AM ET
The men are in Montreal, and the women in Toronto. This is the tune-up you need to see who is going to be in prime form when the U.S Open comes around.
New This Swing: Fill Out Your Bracket with the help of an AI Assistant
Brckt now has an AI connector, so you can hook your account up to Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI app that supports MCP connectors and do your bracket research right in the chat. Ask about the draw, pull head-to-head records and surface splits, check Brckt’s daily power ratings, and see where the ratings disagree with the seedings before you commit to an upset.
I know AI is a mixed bag but this can be said about almost every technology. There is a VAST amount of tennis data out there and at times it is difficult to provide all the data points and information to you via a traditional user interface. My goal is to empower you to fill out the best bracket possible.
You can go to your profile section to see how to get this set up. Limited abilities are available for free while the full suite is open to pro users. Feedback is welcomed.
When you’re happy, the AI drafts your whole bracket and hands you a link to review and submit it on Brckt. To set it up, head to your profile on the app, open AI Connect, and paste the connector URL into your AI app. It’s free to try, and Pro unlocks the full research toolkit: power ratings, upset alerts, head-to-heads, and the community’s picks.
No other bracket app lets you research and fill out picks by just talking to an AI. It’s a first of its kind way to build a bracket, and it makes the whole experience best in class: no more tabbing between five sites to check seedings, injury news, and head-to-heads before you commit to a pick. Ask, get the answer, make the call, all in one place.
The National Bank Open’s 96-player draw is exactly what this was built for. Let the AI do the homework on the qualifiers you’ve never heard of, then overrule it on the picks you feel in your gut.
Still Doubling Down on Mobile Bracket Experience
That said, I’m so excited to have the new mobile bracket picking and viewing experience live. IT IS SO CLEAN!!!
Swipe around and see for yourself.
Cincinnati Open: August 13
The last real dress rehearsal before New York
The Cincinnati Open main draw begins Thursday, August 13, also a 96-player field on both tours. The draw usually lands a couple of days before, and the moment it does, picks open on Brckt.
Same surface as New York, same conditions, and the players peaking here are usually the ones still standing three weeks later. Pay attention to it, and your US Open bracket gets a lot smarter.
US Open: August 30
Get your group sorted before the draw drops
The one everybody’s building toward. The 2026 US Open main draw starts Sunday, August 30, with 128 players in each of the men’s and women’s draws.
Groups are the whole point here, so get yours sorted early. Create a private group for your friends, or join one of Brckt’s featured groups and take on the whole community. Either way, the earlier you set it up, the more people you can pull in before the draw drops.
Your Five-Week Calendar
| Tournament | Draw | Main draw begins |
|---|---|---|
| National Bank Open | 96 | Sunday, August 2 |
| Cincinnati Open | 96 | Thursday, August 13 |
| US Open | 128 | Sunday, August 30 |
A Few Things to Remember
- Fill out multiple brackets. Hit “Duplicate Bracket” to prefill from one you’ve already done, then change the two or three picks you keep second-guessing.
- Live scoring runs all swing. Follow along point by point on the tournament page, your bracket, or the scores page.
- See the crowd once play begins. When a tournament goes live, pick percentages show up on matches, so you’ll know exactly how alone you were on that second-round upset.
- To compliment your bracket, there’s the map game. Tennis Around the Globe is a free daily geography game: tap the map, score by how close you land.
- Your Handshake is waiting. Every tournament you play now ends with a full recap of your points, rank, accuracy, and the upsets only you called. Here’s what one looks like.
The National Bank Open draw is live and picks close August 2. Go get your bracket in.