Benjamin Bonzi of France is again within the win column, claiming his first title in over two years on Sunday on the 2024 Winnipeg Nationwide Financial institution Challenger introduced by MBuilds.
The 28-year-old Frenchman defeated Japan’s Sho Shimabukuro 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 within the championship match to seize the crown on the seventh version of the occasion held within the Manitoba capital.
En path to the finals, third-seeded Bonzi escaped a scare when he was pressured to avoid wasting a match level within the second set of his semi-final contest towards China’s Bu Yunchaokete, earlier than clawing his manner again to win 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-0. Once more on Sunday, the Frenchman dropped the opener however managed to serve his well beyond his opponent, hitting 10 aces and successful 73 per cent of first-serve factors alongside the best way.
With the win, Bonzi jumps as much as No. 136 on the planet and goals to shut in on his career-best rating of No. 42, which he achieved in 2023 after reaching two ATP Tour finals in addition to making a third-round look on the Australian Open. He now heads to Granby, Quebec, the place he’ll as soon as once more be the event’s No. 3 seed.
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4 Canadians had been competing within the singles predominant attract Winnipeg. Alexis Galarneau was the fifth seed however misplaced within the first spherical to Marc Polmans. Teenager Keegan Rice additionally misplaced spherical one to the earlier week’s Laval champion Eliot Spizzirri.
Vasek Pospisil was competing in his first occasion since April and misplaced his opening match to Yunchaokete Bu of China.
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Liam Draxl had a wildcard and was the one Canadian to select up a win in singles on the occasion, defeating Gijs Brouwer in straight units earlier than falling to seventh seed Hugo Grenier within the third set.
Within the doubles ultimate, Christian Harrison and Cannon Kingsley’s American duo beat the Japanese workforce of Yuta Shimizu and Kaichi Uchida 6-1, 6-4. It was the primary time that Harrison and Kingsley paired as much as play collectively in doubles. Harrison now has 4 titles on the season, whereas Kingsley has two.
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The host nation noticed extra success within the doubles, the place two all-Canadian squads reached the semis. Draxl and Cleeve Harper misplaced within the ultimate 4 to the eventual champions, whereas Juan Carlos Aguilar and Taha Baadi had been overwhelmed by Shimizu and Uchida.
The 2024 event on the Nationwide Financial institution Tennis MB Hub at West St. Paul has formally wrapped up, and the subsequent occasion a part of the Nationwide Financial institution Challenger collection is already underway, with qualifying matches presently happening at Tennis St-Luc in Granby.
