The Canadian Open is the home Masters for Canadian players. Home crowds help. They do not shorten the draw. This note is about how to watch that week without treating every Canadian win as a coronation.
A Canadian in the second round is the story people share. The more useful watch is who they drew in round one, and whether the match is afternoon heat or a night session. Conditions change more between day and night in Montreal and Toronto than a highlights clip shows.
Rankings points from a Masters are large. A quarterfinal is a real result even if the player loses the next match to a top seed. Keep that scale when you compare a Canadian Open run with a smaller hard-court title.