The host nation might be nicely represented because the ITF Tour makes one other cease in Canada this week, this time in the course of the nation at an ITF W35 occasion in Saskatoon.
Half of the singles draw is Canadian, with 16 of the 32 gamers together with three seeds hailing from the host nation.
Stacey Fung is the highest seed in Saskatoon and faces American qualifier Patsy Daughters within the first spherical. She may meet 16-year-old Clemence Mercier within the spherical two. The Canadian teen made all of it the way in which to the semifinals of the W15 occasion in Brossard again in March.
The opposite seeded Canadians are No. 3 Kayla Cross and No. 6 Isabelle Boulais. All three Canadian seeds are within the high half of the draw.
Cross reached the ultimate on the W75 occasion in Granby final month and opens her marketing campaign in opposition to Nadia Lagaev, a wildcard who’s at present the highest-ranked Canadian on the ITF junior tour. Lagaev acquired a wildcard into Saskatoon.
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Boulais will begin in opposition to American Brandy Walker. She may meet Fung within the quarter-finals and Cross within the semis.
Two names to control within the Saskatoon draw are Ariana Arseneault and Mia Kupres. The pair reached the quarter-finals of the doubles on the WTA 1000 Nationwide Financial institution Open earlier in August after successful the title in Granby in July.
This week in Saskatoon singles, Arseneault opens in opposition to American Jenna Dean and will face No. 7 seed Jada Robinson, additionally of the US, within the second spherical. She is in Cross’ quarter. Kupres begins in opposition to American Maribella Zamarripa and will meet No. 2 seed Hiroko Kuwata of Japan within the second spherical.
Absent from the Saskatoon occasion is two-time defending champion Victoria Mboko, who performed final week at an ITF occasion on clay in Serbia.
There are three all-Canadian matchups within the first spherical: Cross in opposition to Lagaev, an all-teen affair between Emma Dong and Catherine Gagnon, and Winnie Wing Yee Choi taking up Alexia Jacobs.
