The primary skilled males’s title in Canada in 2024 was received final week by American Eliot Spizzirri, who emerged victorious on the ITF M25 occasion in Laval, Quebec.
Spizzirri, an NCAA star for the College of Texas who completed the 2023-24 season because the No. 1 ranked participant within the American collegiate system, defeated qualifier Karl Poling 6-4, 6-2 within the closing to assert his second ITF singles title of the yr.
Within the early rounds, the American was given all he might deal with by Canadian opposition, getting pushed to a few units by fellow NCAA gamers Alvin Tudorica and Taha Baadi within the first two rounds. From the quarter-finals onwards, Spizzirri didn’t drop a set.
Canada’s Liam Draxl was the highest seed and the final Canadian standing in singles, reaching the quarter-finals earlier than retiring regardless of having taken the primary set in opposition to the eventual runner-up Poling.
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There have been 13 Canadian males within the singles draw. The draw featured three all-Canadian first-round clashes: Draxl defeated teenager Keegan Rice, Juan Carlos Aguilar upset sixth seed Justin Boulais, and Duncan Chan received a battle of Canadian qualifiers over Sasha Rozin.
General, the Canadians went 6-7 within the first spherical.
Draxl nonetheless managed to succeed in the doubles closing in Laval alongside countryman Cleeve Harper, who was Spizzirri’s doubles companion at Texas through the NCAA season. The Canadian pair upset high seeds Ben Jones and Aidan McHugh of Nice Britain within the semifinals however misplaced within the title match to Individuals Alexander Bernard and James Tracy 3-6, 6-4, 10-5.
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It was the primary ITF doubles title of Bernard’s profession and the second for Tracy.
4 all-Canadian pairs reached the quarter-finals on house soil, however solely Draxl and Harper had been capable of get to the semifinals. Canadians featured on 10 of the 16 pairs within the doubles draw.
