On Monday, Tennis Canada launched its official Nationwide Occasion Calendar for the 2023 tennis season. Along with bringing again the overwhelming majority of the occasions performed in 2022, Tennis Canada is thrilled to announce the addition of seven $25,000 ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments and 4 ITF World Tennis Tour Junior tournaments to this 12 months’s schedule.
The modifications to the 2023 calendar embrace seven new pro-level tournaments: two girls’s occasions (W25 Toronto and W25 Ile Des Soeurs), three males’s occasions (M25 Montreal [twice] and M25 Laval), and a mixed males’s and girls’s competitors (M25 and W25 Edmonton). On the junior circuit, the variety of ITF occasions will increase from 17 to 21, with lots of them receiving an improve of their sanction degree.
Notable pro-level tournaments returning in 2023 are the Nationwide Financial institution Challengers in Winnipeg, which might be hosted at their new web site in West St. Paul, in addition to Saguenay, Calgary, and Drummondville. Moreover, the distinguished Nationwide Financial institution Open introduced by Rogers will once more happen in early August and might be adopted by the boys’s and girls’s mixed occasions on the Championnats Banque Nationale de Granby from August 20 to 27.
Following the postponements and cancellations of home occasions in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, tennis occasions returned to the calendar in 2022 with 70 whole organized by Tennis Canada. This 12 months, the variety of nationwide occasions will develop to over 90, together with 23 on the skilled degree, 38 on the junior circuit, 20 for these competing in masters (previously seniors) occasions, and eight for wheelchair tennis athletes.
View the 2023 Nationwide Occasion Calendar.
The importance of accelerating the variety of home occasions
In 2022, Tennis Canada accomplished a nationwide competitors summit with worldwide, nationwide, provincial, and personal sector companions led by exterior specialists LBB Methods. This thorough evaluate included numerous suggestions aimed toward enhancing the general competitors construction in Canada, corresponding to strengthening the pro-level and junior schedules. Different components mentioned included reinforcing optimistic sport experiences and truthful play, growing the variety of high quality and level-based play and matches, creating a aggressive mindset, and offering age and stage-appropriate competitions all through the event system.
In collaboration with the personal sector and Provincial Tennis Associations, Tennis Canada might be implementing many of those suggestions in 2023. Enhancing competitors in any respect ranges is a steady course of, nevertheless, it’s an important measure the group wants to think about 12 months in and 12 months out to make sure Canada stays among the many finest tennis nations on this planet.
“Our purpose is to construct a world-class, pro-competitive construction that may contribute to creating prime tennis prospects in Canada to the best degree,” stated Hatem McDadi, Senior Vice President of Excessive-Efficiency Growth at Tennis Canada. “We wish to thank all events concerned that helped present insights, suggestions, and options to help us in taking this step ahead collectively. Having a world-class competitors construction helps us recruit, retain, and develop tennis gamers, and can in the end assist us in our shared imaginative and prescient to be a world-leading tennis nation.”
