The first balls at the first Canadian national tennis championships of 2025 have been struck. Over the last few days, the U16 and U12 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals got underway with some of Canada’s most promising youngsters in action.
U16
The Under 16s began with qualifying on Friday at the Club de tennis Île des Sœurs in Verdun, QC, with main draw matches beginning on Sunday.
Laurence Demers, who got off to a quick start in 2025 on the ITF Junior Tour, is the top seed in the girl’s singles. The Quebecoise did have to battle in her first match in Verdun, edging out Noelle Yuxuan Dai in three sets.
Lily Rochon of Ontario is the second seed. She also needed three sets in her first-round match against Emily Nicole Allen. Rochon won both the U16 singles and doubles titles last summer at the Fischer Outdoor Junior Nationals. There are 38 girls in the singles main draw.
The top two singles seeds will play doubles together in Verdun. The Amys, Lu and Shen of British Columbia, are the second seeds.
Joshua Adamson of Ontario is the top seed on the boys side. He won his opening match on Sunday over Sam Downs 6-0, 6-0 and comes in with tons of momentum after picking up four ITF junior titles in February.
Antoine Généreux of Quebec is the second seed. Both men have had success at the national championships before, but more so at the summer outdoors championships. There are 40 players in the singles main draw.
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Like the girls, the top two singles seeds are teaming up in doubles on the boys side, with Adamson and Généreux holding the No. 1 seed. At the Fischer Outdoor Junior Nationals last summer, Adamson beat Généreux for the doubles title. Aedan Malik and Brayden William Woo of Ontario are the second seeds.
The finals in Verdun will be played on Friday. CLICK HERE to follow the results.
U12
The youngest players competing at the Fischer Junior Nationals, the under 12s, got their event underway on Saturday at the Osten & Victor Tennis Centre in Calgary, AB.
75 youngsters are competing at the event. The format for the U12s is different than other national championships. Rather than a standard knockout draw for singles, the event is broken up into three phases.
Phase 1 is a round robin, where the players are divided into six groups (per gender). The group stage results will determine placement for phase two, which is a small knockout round which acts as qualifying for phase three, the final knockout stage to determine placement.
The doubles draws similarly have multiple rounds of different knockout draws.
In phase 1, Daniel Marinov (boys) and Callie Raharinosy (girls) are the top seeds in their respective singles events.
Play will wrap up in Calgary on Saturday. CLICK HERE to follow the results.
