Out of doors Junior Nationals month will get underway this week starting with the 2024 Beneath 18 Fischer Out of doors Nationwide Championships.
Up-and-coming Canadian tennis gamers will showcase their abilities on the Ontario Racquet Membership in Mississauga, Ont., with the finals set to share the courtroom with the WTA’s greatest at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto on Aug. 11.
Each the boys’ and women’ tournaments are 64-player elimination attracts with six rounds. Defeated gamers are slotted right into a 32-player comfort bracket.
Qualification for the U18s started on Sunday and can proceed on Monday and Tuesday.
Boys’ Draw
Canada’s top-ranked junior boys’ participant, and two-time Junior Nationwide Championship winner, Nicolas Arseneault is not going to be within the area for the U18’s after receiving the ultimate qualifying wild card spot for the Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal. It will likely be his first look on the NBO.
With out Arseneault within the area, his twin brother and doubles companion, Mikael, shall be one of many favourites to emerge from the boys’ draw, getting into the event as the highest seed. The Richmond Hill, Ont., native reached the semifinals on the 2024 Fischer Indoor Nationals and the quarter-finals of the 2023 Fischer Out of doors Nationals however fell to his brother on each events.
Adam Faragcao enters the event because the second seed. The 16-year-old is a two-time Nationwide Champion, claiming the Doubles title on the U18 Out of doors Nationals alongside companion Stéphane Pierre-Jo Kamendjé, in addition to the singles title on the U16 Indoor Nationwide Championship in 2023. He reached the semifinal on the U18’s final yr as a 15-year-old and misplaced 6-3, 6-1 to Junghee You.
Different contenders within the boys’ draw embody 2024 U16 Indoor Nationwide runner-up Felix Roussel and Dani Szabo, who gained the 2024 Yonex Beneath 18 Junior Closed Out of doors Provincial Championships in July.
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Ladies’ Draw
Defending U18 Nationwide Out of doors Champion Clemence Mercier returns to the Ontario Racquet Membership seeking to win the event for the second straight yr. The 16-year-old was a shock winner of the Beneath-18s in 2023, claiming the singles championship as an unseeded entrant, defeating third seed Eliana Kook and prime seed Naomi Xu en path to the title. The Quebec native was additionally on the Junior Billie Jean King Cup squad that certified for the finals in April.
The third-seeded Mercier enters 2024 as one of many favourites after defeating Brooke Feth 6-1, 6-4 to win the 2024 Beneath 16 Fischer Indoor Nationwide Championships in March.
Toronto native Scarlett Nicholson enters the event because the No. 1 seed. The sixth-ranked Canadian Junior participant completed because the runner-up on the 2022 Indoor Nationals, shedding to Anna-Raphaëlle Serghi within the remaining. Nicholson not too long ago accomplished her freshman yr at Georgia Tech. She compiled a 12-9 singles report and was named to the All-ACC Tutorial Crew. Nicholson is a four-time Canadian Nationwide Champion – twice as a U12 doubles champion and twice in singles competitors (U12 and U14).
Anna Tabunshchyk is the event’s second seed as she appears to construct on a quarter-final look on the Beneath-18 Indoor Championships in April. The 16-year-old has reached the semifinals in 5 of her previous six ITF tournaments, together with victories at J60 occasions at Niagara on the Lake, Ont., and Ile des Soeurs, Que.
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