After thrilling motion on the Challenger circuit in Winnipeg final week, the excursions transfer again East for tennis in Quebec.
The Championnats Banque Nationale de Granby is underway, with the boys competing on the ATP Challenger degree occasion, and the ladies do battle within the ITF W75.
Discover out which gamers to regulate this week.
Galarneau returns to defend his title
Laval, QC native Alexis Galarneau returns to Granby this week, the location of his breakthrough victory on the circuit. The 25-year-old received his first profession ATP Challenger trophy on the occasion this time final 12 months and is seeded fourth this week.
The gifted baseliner usually performs his greatest tennis in the course of the hard-court swing and opens his marketing campaign Tuesday in opposition to American Bruno Kuzuhara.
Whereas veteran Vasek Pospisil already made an early exit, his conqueror was 22-year-old countryman Justin Boulais, who’s seeking to make noise as he begins to concentrate on the professional circuit. He lately accomplished his collegiate profession at Ohio State, serving to the Buckeyes to a semifinals end on the NCAA Championship.
A Canadian man has received their first ATP Challenger singles title in every of the final two years in Granby.
A number of Canadians, together with Liam Draxl, Cleeve Harper, Benjamin Sigouin, and Joshua Lapdat are additionally within the doubles subject.
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Branstine, Fernandez spotlight robust girls’s occasion
A deep, gifted girls’s subject can also be current in Granby this week.
Former junior Grand Slam doubles champion Carson Branstine is again in Canada as she seems to be to proceed her surge in kind. The 23-year-old lately received her first W75 title on the Sumter Open in South Carolina, the fifth ITF singles title of her profession.
Bianca Jolie Fernandez, the youthful sister of Canadian No. 1 Leylah, can also be set to compete, after wrapping up her first collegiate 12 months at UCLA. Together with singles motion, the 20-year-old is teaming up with Isabelle Boulais, sister of Justin, in doubles.
Different Canadians embody Ariana Arsenault, Jada Bui, Mia Kupres, Kayla Cross, and Stacey Fung.
