The ITF Junior Tour landed in Canada final month, with Nicolas Arseneault and Emma Dong cleansing up on dwelling soil by every successful a number of titles.
Across the globe, the Canadians acquitted themselves properly by racking up the wins. As properly, two Canadian groups e book their locations in competitors finals later within the yr.
In brief, it was an enormous month for the Canadian juniors. Right here is your month-to-month junior replace introduced by Har-Tru.
Junior Group Canada
In April, the qualifying rounds of the junior Billie Jean King Cup, junior Davis Cup, and ITF Junior World Tennis occasions passed off.
Of the 4 occasions (Junior World Tennis has a girls and boys occasion), two Canadian squads superior to the finals later within the yr. The junior Billie Jean King Cup group, that includes the under-16 Canadian ladies, obtained by way of, as did the U14 boys squad on the Junior World Tennis occasion.
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Home Occasions
Over the past month, Canada performed host to 3 ITF junior occasions.
J200 Woodbridge
The host nation was gradual out of the gate within the first ITF junior occasion of the yr held in Canada.
Solely Nadia Lagaev was capable of increase a trophy in Woodbridge, claiming the women singles title with a win over American Nancy Lee within the ultimate.
The entire different titles in Woodbridge have been gained by People.
J100 Burlington
Canadians cleaned up on the Burlington occasion, claiming three of the 4 titles.
Each singles finals have been all-Canadian affairs, highlighted by the brotherly battle between Nicolas and Mikael Arseneault within the boys ultimate, gained by Nicolas. Within the ladies ultimate, Emma Dong beat Anna Tabunshchyk for the title.
J100 Quebec Metropolis
Arseneault and Dong adopted up their victories in Burlington with extra wins in Quebec Metropolis. Dong specifically shone, successful each the women singles and doubles titles.
Each Dong and Arseneault beat their doubles companions within the singles ultimate. For the second occasion in a row, Nicolas beat his twin brother Mikael within the singles ultimate. The twins paired as much as attain the doubles ultimate, the place they misplaced to fellow Canadians Alec Marin and Loic Petrecca.
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Whereas Andrea Taylor was crushed by Dong within the singles ultimate, she teamed up along with her singles conqueror to say the doubles title, going back-to-back in doubles in Burlington and Quebec Metropolis.
Right here is the total checklist of champions on the Canadian ITF Junior occasions over the past month (all Canadian until in any other case famous):
ITF Outcomes
There have been tons of huge outcomes for the Canadians on the ITF circuit outdoors of Canada over the past month.
The most effective got here at a J30 occasion in Saint-Francois, Guadeloupe, the place Canadians gained not solely all 4 titles, however accounted for nearly each spot in a ultimate on the occasion.
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Within the all-Canadian singles finals, Rafael Brown beat Jerry Han for the boys title, whereas Avery Alexander took down Laurence Demers within the ladies ultimate.
Brown and Han additionally teamed up within the doubles, reaching the ultimate the place they misplaced to Antoine Clevel and Antoine Genereux.
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Demers was additionally the runner-up within the ladies doubles alongside Annika Lavoie, shedding to Kiera Taylor and her Czech companion Valentina Valova. Valova was the one non-Canadian to achieve a ultimate in Saint-Francois.
Right here is the total checklist of Canadians who reached finals at occasions outdoors of Canada over the past month (Titles in daring)
Rafael Brown: J30 Saint-Francois boys singles champion, J30 Saint-Francois boys doubles runner-up (w/ Han)
Avery Alexander: J30 Saint-Francois ladies singles champion, J30 Montego Bay ladies singles runner-up
Kayla Lorrimer: J30 Bejar ladies singles runner-up, J30 Bejar ladies doubles champion
Laurence Demers: J30 Saint-Francois ladies singles runner-up, J30 Saint-Francois ladies doubles runner-up (w/ Lavoie)
Jerry Han: J30 Saint-Francois boys singles runner-up, J30 Saint-Francois boys doubles runner-up (w/ Brown)
Amy Lu: J60 San Jose ladies doubles champion
Antoine Clavel: J30 Saint-Francois boys doubles champion (w/ Genereux)
Antoine Genereux: J30 Saint-Francois boys doubles champion (w/ Clavel)
Manveer Boparai: J60 Tlaxcala boys doubles champion
Marylee Longpre: J30 Montego Bay ladies doubles champion (w/ Thibault)
Eve Thibault: J30 Montego Bay ladies doubles champion (w/ Longpre)
Kiera Taylor: J30 Saint-Francois ladies doubles champion
Jacey Tan: J30 Bridgetown ladies singles champion
Clemence Mercier: J100 Delray Seashore ladies doubles runner-up
Annika Lavoie: J30 Saint-Francois ladies doubles runner-up (w/ Demers)
Sienna Miles: J30 Bridgetown ladies doubles runner-up (w/ Tkachyk)
Anya Tkachyk: J30 Bridgetown ladies doubles runner-up (w/ Miles)
Rankings replace
Along with his run of excellent kind on dwelling soil, Nicolas Arseneault is on the point of cracking the Prime 100 of the ITF junior rankings. In the latest checklist on Might 6, he jumped 18 spots up No. 107.
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Keegan Rice stays the highest Canadian at No. 91.
Nadia Lagaev is hanging on to a Prime 100 spot at No. 100 and is the highest Canadian lady. After her wins in Burlington and Quebec Metropolis, Emma Dong has climbed 52 spots as much as No. 143.
Take a look at the total ITF junior rankings right here.
