For the second week in a row, Canada topped a number of champions on dwelling soil as Rebecca Marino and Kayla Cross took dwelling the titles on the Calgary Nationwide Financial institution Challenger.
Marino clinched her third title of the season within the singles, defeating American Anna Rogers 7-5, 6-4 within the closing. Cross and her American companion Maribella Zamarripa took dwelling the crown with a 6-7(3), 7-5, 12-10 victory in opposition to the all-American duo of Robin Anderson and Dalayna Hewitt.
Seeded third, Marino was close to good all through the week, dropping only one set in her semifinal bout in opposition to fellow Canadian Cadence Brace. Within the closing, Marino broke her opponent on six events, profitable the match in simply over an hour and half-hour.
Coming into 2024, Marino had by no means gained a title above the ITF W60 degree. All three of her titles this season have bested that mark, with the W75 win in Calgary becoming a member of a pair of W100 victories in Guanajuato, Mexico and Ilkley, United Kingdom earlier within the season. With the win, Marino attracts ever nearer to reentering the High 100 and shall be No. 118 on the earth when the rankings are up to date on Monday.
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4 Canadians reached the singles quarter-finals. Brace gained an all-Canadian conflict over the eventual doubles champion Cross, whereas Stacey Fung misplaced to Rogers.
Cross picked up her fifth ITF doubles title of the season, going back-to-back in Alberta with Zamarripa after the pair gained the title in Edmonton final week. The one set they misplaced of their title run was the primary set of the ultimate, which arrange their dramatic victory within the match tiebreak.
Within the semifinals, Cross avenged her singles loss to Brace, beating the Canadian and her American companion Jamie Loeb. They had been the one two Canadians to make it out of the primary spherical of the doubles.
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On the boys’s facet, Murphy Casson of the USA emerged victorious with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over fellow American Govind Nanda.
Cassone, a qualifier ranked 509th on the earth, had a memorable week in Calgary, defeating three of the event’s high seeds en path to the most important title of his profession. Certainly one of his victories got here in opposition to Laval’s Alexis Galarneau in an thrilling quarter-final, the place he gained 6-7(7), 7-6(2), 7-6(4).
Liam Draxl, contemporary off a double victory in Edmonton, was the defending champion in Calgary and the final Canadian standing, reaching the semifinals earlier than falling to Nanda.
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One match of notice got here within the second spherical when Davis Cup teammates Galarneau and Vasek Pospisil met for a spot within the quarter-finals. Galarneau emerged victorious in straight units.
The Individuals continued their positive kind in Calgary, with the boys’s doubles closing that includes 4. Ryan Seggerman and Patrik Trhac prevailed 6-3, 7-6(3) over Robert Money and James Tracy.
