Because the climate within the northern hemisphere begins to enhance, the tennis season additionally heats up and that comes with some robust Canadian outcomes of the ITF junior tour, significantly in Norway.
A gaggle of Canadian ladies, led by Andrea Taylor, walked away from a pair of J60 occasions in Norway over the past month with a substantial quantity of {hardware}, the spotlight being a doubles title for Taylor and fellow Canadian Anastasia Malysheva within the city of Gjovik.
That Gjovik doubles draw was the spotlight of the final month for the Canadians on the junior circuit, as Malysheva and Taylor gained an all-Canadian ultimate in opposition to Andrea Cabio and Charlize Celebrini.
Within the semifinals, the stress to ensure a title for Canada was on the third-seeded pair of Cabio and Celebrini, as the opposite semifinal pitted two all-Canadian groups in opposition to one another. Cabio and Celebrini upset the highest seeds, a Swedish-Swiss pair, to set a finals conflict with Malysheva and Taylor, who beat fellow Canadians Laurence Demers and Elicia Lin within the semis.
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It was the unseeded pair of Malysheva and Taylor claiming the title with a 6-2, 6-4 win over their countrywomen. It was the primary ITF title of 14-year-old Malysheva’s profession. Taylor already had two, one singles and one doubles, to her identify.
Taylor walked away from Norway with an additional two runnner-up trophies. She additionally reached the singles ultimate in Gjovik, however misplaced to Michelle Khomich of Germany in straight units. The week previous to triumphing in Gjovik, Malysheva and Taylor have been defeated within the ultimate of a match in Oslo.
Whereas Celebrini didn’t decide up a champion’s trophy within the final month, she had a terrific run in Scandinavia. She reached the semifinals within the singles of all three tournaments she performed in as many weeks, a J60 in Frederiksberg, Denmark, then Oslo and Gjovik, which have been additionally her first three occasions of 2023. In Gjovik, she fell to her countrywoman Taylor within the ultimate 4.
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One other all-Canadian doubles crew was victorious final month. Antoine Genereux and Andy Tchinda Kepche gained the J30 title in Baja California, Mexico. They didn’t drop a set on their approach to the title and upset the top-seeded pair from the host nation within the ultimate.
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For each boys, it was their first ITF title.
Zachary Plante was Canada’s lone singles winner over the past month. He gained the primary ITF title of his profession in Addis Ababa at a J30 occasion.
Regardless of being unseeded, Plante cruised to the title. He misplaced only one set in 5 matches, the opening set of his quarter-final in opposition to Toki Adachi of Japan in a tiebreak. The 16-year-old defeated Leander Tauber of Austria 6-1, 6-3 in an all-unseeded ultimate.
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The most important ultimate for a Canadian on the junior tour final month got here in Lima, Peru, the place Nadia Lagaev reached the J300 doubles ultimate, however she and her Slovakian accomplice misplaced in a match tiebreak within the title match.
Right here is the complete checklist of Canadians who reached finals over the past month (Titles in daring)
Andrea Taylor: J60 Gjovik Doubles Champion (w/ Malysheva) and Singles Runner-Up, J60 Oslo Doubles Runner Up (w/ Malysheva)
Anastasia Malysheva: J60 Gjovik Doubles Champion (w/ Taylor), J60 Oslo Doubles Runner Up (w/ Taylor)
Zachary Plante: J30 Addis Ababa Singles Champion
Antoine Genereux: J30 Baja California Doubles Champion (w/ Kepche)
Andy Tchinda Kepche: J30 Baja California Doubles Champion (w/ Genereux)
Nadia Lagaev: J300 Lima Doubles Runner-Up
Andrea Cabio: J60 Gjovik Doubles Runner-Up (w/ Celebrini)
Charlize Celebrini: J60 Gjovik Doubles Runner-Up (w/ Cabio)
Mariya Dobreva: J60 Vegas Doubles Runner-Up
Volodymr Gurenko: J60 Guatemala Doubles Runner-Up
Madelynn Ludwig: J60 Zapopan Singles and Doubles Runner-Up
Eric William Wang: J60 Jiujiang Doubles Runner-Up
Kartick Gusain: J30 Chihuahua Doubles Runner-Up
Finn Muller: J30 Chihuahua Singles Runner-Up
Rankings Replace
Keegan Rice stays the highest Canadian within the ITF Rankings at No. 49 on the planet. Within the final month, he reached the quarter-finals of a J300 occasion in Porto Alegre and the third spherical of a J500 in Blumenau, each in Brazil.
He’s nonetheless the lone Canadian, male or feminine, within the High 100 of the ITF junior rankings. Nadia Lagaev has jumped over Naomi Xu to develop into the highest Canadian within the ladies’ rankings at No. 129
Take a look at the complete ITF junior rankings right here.
