Canada’s successful streak on dwelling soil was snapped final week as the autumn ITF swing via the Nice White North moved east to Quebec for the Challenger Banque Nationale de Saguenay. Petra Marcinko of Croatia gained the singles title whereas the American duo of Dalayna Hewitt and Anna Rogers had been victorious in doubles on the W75 occasion.
Marcinko, age 18, practically swept via the match, successful her first 9 units in a row to succeed in the ultimate and take the lead within the title match in opposition to fourth seed Anouk Koevermans earlier than the Dutchwoman gained the second set to ship the ultimate to a decider. Marcinko edged it out in a tiebreak to be topped champion with a 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(3) win.
Hewitt and Rogers, the second seeds within the doubles, didn’t drop a set in three matches on their option to the title. They acquired a walkover within the semifinals. The People bested the top-seeded all-Belgian staff of Magali Kempen and Lara Salden 6-1, 7-5 to say the title.
The closest the host nation got here to lifting a trophy was in doubles, the place Kayla Cross, who had gained the doubles in each Edmonton and Calgary, and Ariana Arseneault reached the semifinals however withdrew previous to their conflict with the People.
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In singles, all 4 shedding quarter-finalists had been Canadian. Stacey Fung, Nadia Lagaev, Cadence Brace, and Cross all reached the final eight however had been all defeated on the identical day, with Fung falling to the eventual champion Marcinko.
Lagaev, Canada’s highest-ranked junior, reached her first quarter-final in an expert match. The 16-year-old defeated fellow teenager Emma Dong in a battle of the highest two Canadian juniors within the ITF rankings after which upset No. 3 seed Gabriela Knutson in three units earlier than falling to the seventh seed Viktoria Hruncakova within the final eight in three units.
Katherine Sebov of Toronto was the defending champion however misplaced within the second spherical to Marcinko.
The following cease on the autumn Canadian swing will likely be at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto for the W75 Tevlin Challenger.
