The final 4 weeks was top-of-the-line stretches of the whole yr for Canada’s juniors on the ITF tour. Total, 18 totally different Canadians reached finals, the second-most in a month this yr. 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 way in which, 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 together with his twin brother Loic to go back-to-back within the doubles attracts. The 4 titles over the past month have been the primary of his profession on the ITF Tour.
The Canadians additionally acquitted themselves effectively at a J30 occasion in Montego Bay. Mirka Delaney swept the occasion, profitable each the singles (in an all-Canadian closing towards Emy Gauvin) and doubles titles. Her doubles win got here alongside fellow Canadian Lola Emilie Bean.
Right here is the complete record of Canadians who reached finals over the past 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 most important singles titles of the yr 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 occasions on residence soil in Woodbridge, ON, and Montreal, QC.
She additionally reached a J300 doubles closing in Lima, Peru, the most important 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 residence soil, Canada performed host to 19 ITF Junior occasions in 2024. Canadians received 51 of the 76 attracts at residence ITF occasions this yr. 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 Crew Canada
Canada competed on the main junior workforce 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 bought 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 workforce and women World Junior Tennis squad each did not 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 (outside) of this yr. Click on the hyperlinks beneath to learn the event recaps:
Rankings Replace
Nadia Lagaev completed as the highest Canadian within the ITF junior rankings at No. 61. She may have completed larger within the junior rankings however within the closing months of 2024, the 16-year-old started contesting occasions on the ladies’s tour moderately 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.
Take a look at the complete ITF junior rankings right here.
For extra detailed info on Canadian junior tennis ends in 2024, try the month-to-month updates by Har-Tru (Brackets point out home tournaments lined 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)
