The final 4 weeks was among the best stretches of your entire 12 months for Canada’s juniors on the ITF tour. Total, 18 totally different Canadians reached finals, the second-most in a month this 12 months. They mixed to achieve 22 finals throughout all disciplines, profitable ten titles, each single-month bests in 2024.
Right here is your month-to-month junior replace by Har-Tru.
16-year-old Xavier Massotte led the best way, reaching 5 finals and profitable 4 of them.
He reached the singles finals in back-to-back J30 occasions in Guatemala, profitable the primary, and adopted it up with one other singles win in San Jose, Costa Rica. In San Jose, he teamed up along with his twin brother Loic to go back-to-back within the doubles attracts. The 4 titles during the last month have been the primary of his profession on the ITF Tour.
The Canadians additionally acquitted themselves properly at a J30 occasion in Montego Bay. Mirka Delaney swept the occasion, profitable each the singles (in an all-Canadian closing in opposition to Emy Gauvin) and doubles titles. Her doubles win got here alongside fellow Canadian Lola Emilie Bean.
Right here is the complete listing of Canadians who reached finals during the last month (Titles in daring)
Xavier Massotte: J30 Guatemala 1 boys singles champion, J30 Guatemala 2 boys singles runner-up, J30 San Jose 2 boys singles champion, J30 San Jose 1 boys doubles champion (w/ L. Massotte), J30 San Jose 2 boys doubles champion (w/ L. Massotte)
Mirka Delaney: J30 Montego Bay women singles champion (d. Gauvin), J30 Montego Bay women doubles champion (w/ Bean)
Laurence Demers: J30 Guatemala 2 women singles champion, J30 Guatemala 1 women doubles champion (w/ Tardif)
Loic Massotte: J30 San Jose 1 boys doubles champion (w/ X. Massotte), J30 San Jose 2 boys doubles champion (w/ X. Massotte)
Justine Tardif: J30 Guatemala 1 women doubles champion (w/ Demers)
Adam Patry: J30 Guatemala 1 boys doubles champion (d. Lee)
Lola Emilie Bean: J30 Montego Bay women doubles champion (w/ Delaney)
Avery Alexander: J30 San Jose 2 women singles champion
Neda Rahimkhani: J100 Arequipa women doubles runner-up
Jerry Han: J60 Armenia boys singles runner-up, J60 Pereira boys doubles runner-up
Jay Lin Gibson: J60 Manila Metropolis boys singles runner-up
Emy Gauvin: J30 Montego Bay women singles runner-up (l. To Delaney)
Dani Szabo: J30 Dunakeszi boys singles runner-up, J 30 Szabolcsveresmart boys singles runner-up, J30 Szabolcsveresmart boys doubles runner-up
Matthew Jian Hao Lee: J30 Guatemala 1 boys doubles runner-up (l. To Patry)
Aaron-Davis Mefire Younzwe: J30 Yaounde boys doubles runner-up
Natalie Velits: J30 Abidjan women doubles runner-up
Ashvini Tara Gopalan: J30 San Jose women doubles runner-up
Marylee Longpre: J30 Luque women singles runner-up
Total in 2024, Canadians mixed to achieve roughly 131 finals throughout all ranges and disciplines on the ITF Tour in 2024 outdoors of Canada, profitable 62 titles.
The largest victories by Canadians on the ITF circuit in 2024 got here on the J200 degree. Overseas, Emma Dong received a pair of J200 doubles titles in Mexico, one in Veracruz with fellow Canadian Zoya Chulak and one in Tampico with American Nancy Lee. Raphaelle Leroux additionally received a J200 doubles title in St. Poelten, Austria.
Nadia Lagaev received the largest singles titles of the 12 months by a Canadian on the ITF Tour. She was the lone Canadian to win a singles title on the J200 degree, doing so twice, each instances on dwelling soil in Woodbridge, ON, and Montreal, QC.
She additionally reached a J300 doubles closing in Lima, Peru, the largest closing contested by a Canadian woman in 2024. Twins Mikael and Nicholas Arseneault matched the feat on the boys aspect, reaching the J300 doubles closing in San Jose, Costa Rica.
On dwelling soil, Canada performed host to 19 ITF Junior occasions in 2024. Canadians received 51 of the 76 attracts at dwelling ITF occasions this 12 months. The largest of these tournaments was the J300 Internationaux Junior Banque Nationale de Repentigny, the place the spotlight was an all-Canadian doubles closing received by the Arseneaults.
The way forward for Staff Canada
Canada competed on the main junior group occasions in 2024, reaching the Finals of each the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors and the boys ITF World Junior Tennis occasion.
The U16 women competing within the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors obtained off to a troublesome begin, failing to advance out of the group stage however profitable their final two ties to salvage a Thirteenth-place end. Click on right here to learn the complete occasion recap.
In August, the U14 boys struggled on the ITF World Junior Tennis Finals, ending fifteenth. Click on right here to learn the complete occasion recap.
Canada’s Davis Cup Juniors group and women World Junior Tennis squad each didn’t qualify for his or her respective finals. Click on right here to learn in regards to the qualifying spherical.
Nationwide Championships
Canada held its two annual Fischer Junior Nationals in March (indoors) and August (open air) of this 12 months. Click on the hyperlinks under to learn the match recaps:
Rankings Replace
Nadia Lagaev completed as the highest Canadian within the ITF junior rankings at No. 61. She might have completed increased within the junior rankings however within the closing months of 2024, the 16-year-old started contesting occasions on the ladies’s tour quite than the junior tour, together with reaching her first senior closing at a W15 in Antalya, Turkey. She additionally reached the quarter-finals of the W75 in Saguenay as a wildcard.
Emma Dong completed simply 11 spots behind Lagaev at No. 72.
On the boys aspect, Nicolas Arsenealt was the lone Canadian to complete contained in the High 100 at No. 85.
Try the complete ITF junior rankings right here.
For extra detailed data on Canadian junior tennis leads to 2024, try the month-to-month updates by Har-Tru (Brackets point out home tournaments coated that month):
February
March
April
Might (Woodbridge, Burlington, Quebec Metropolis)
June (Ile des Soeurs, Halifax, Fredericton, Calgary, Edmonton)
July (Ottawa, Niagara, Winnipeg, Kamloops)
August (Vancouver)
September (Repentigny)
October (Montreal, Quebec Metropolis)
November (Langley, Victoria, Woodbridge)
