On Thursday, Tennis Canada launched its Nationwide Occasion Calendar for the 2025 season by way of to the Nationwide Financial institution Open offered by Rogers. A complete of 49 tournaments shall be held in seven provinces from January to July, together with eight on the skilled circuit.
The tennis season in Canada had already begun, with Crew Canada offered by IGA contesting a Davis Cup Qualifiers 1st Spherical tie at IGA Stadium in Montreal, Quebec earlier this month. In March, a number of Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) skilled tournaments shall be featured, with a brand new M15 occasion in Sherbrooke, a W15 in Trois-Rivières, changing the W15 in Brossard, and the addition of a males’s occasion in Montreal, making it a mixed W15 and M15 match.
“We at all times stay up for releasing our Canadian tennis calendar, particularly once we’re capable of announce new males’s and girls’s occasions,” stated Richard Quirion, Director of Skilled and Worldwide Occasions, Quebec, at Tennis Canada. “All year long, we stay dedicated to having a balanced variety of males’s and girls’s tournaments, which ensures a good illustration of all athletes.
“I’d additionally wish to acknowledge the work of the volunteers in Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, and Montreal, the three new skilled occasions to be held in Quebec in March. Their dedication and assist allow the tournaments to run easily, present an pleasant expertise for gamers and spectators alike, and create a powerful sense of neighborhood in these cities.”
Through the summer season, skilled occasions will start to ramp up forward of the Nationwide Financial institution Open, beginning with the M25 occasion in Laval, Quebec. Winnipeg, Manitoba will host an ATP Challenger match, the primary within the Nationwide Financial institution Challenger collection, adopted by the Granby Nationwide Financial institution Championships – a mixed ATP Challenger and ITF W75 occasion – which shall be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
“An vital a part of our long-term technique, and a significant funding for our federation, is to offer Canadian gamers with as many alternatives as doable to play tournaments in Canada, in any respect ranges of the sport,” stated Guillaume Marx, Vice-President of Excessive Efficiency at Tennis Canada. “Home occasions are important to participant improvement and, finally, to the expansion of the high-performance pipeline. These occasions not solely supply followers the prospect to witness high-level tennis, however in addition they present Canadians with priceless taking part in time and the chance to gather essential and inexpensive factors, permitting them to enhance their rating with the intention of competing overseas sooner or later.”
In July, a brand new period will start for Canada’s premier tennis occasion, the Nationwide Financial institution Open, because it expands to a 12-day format and a 96-player essential draw. This improve in standing sees the match be part of an elite group of six prolonged mixed occasions on the WTA and ATP Excursions, bringing the format nearer to that of a Grand Slam. A one-day, 32-player qualifying format kicks off the occasion on Saturday, July 26, and runs till championship evening on Thursday, August 7.
CALGARY NATIONAL BANK CHALLENGER NOT TAKING PLACE
The Calgary Nationwide Financial institution Challenger is not going to be returning in 2025 after efficiently finishing its five-year contract with Tennis Canada, it was introduced on February 12. The match’s organizing committee acknowledged that the present financial uncertainty as a result of falling Canadian greenback and the continued risk of tariffs was too nice to maneuver ahead with internet hosting an occasion this 12 months.
“It can really feel unusual not having the Calgary Nationwide Financial institution Challenger on the schedule this 12 months,” stated Gavin Ziv, CEO of Tennis Canada. “It’s an occasion that has performed a pivotal function in rising tennis in Canada, particularly within the West. In its 5 years, the organizing committee, led by Danny Da Costa, has accomplished an amazing job in staging an occasion that has persistently gone above and past, and we’re hopeful it can return within the coming years. We stay dedicated to the expansion and improvement of tennis throughout the nation, which begins by inspiring the subsequent era of athletes and offering them with alternatives at home occasions to hone their expertise.”
MONTREAL TO HOST QUALIFIERS FOR 2025 ITF JUNIOR TEAM COMPETITIONS
For the primary time since 2019, Canada will host the North/Central America & Caribbean Ultimate Qualifying for the ITF World Junior Tennis (girls and boys), Davis Cup Juniors, and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors by Gainbridge. At Montreal’s IGA stadium, the taking part nations’ high gamers aged 14 & Underneath and 16 & Underneath will compete for an opportunity to qualify for the ultimate stage of the competitors.
Altogether, 23 junior occasions will happen in Canada forward of August, together with the much-anticipated Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals, which shall be held in March in 4 completely different provinces. Different occasions scheduled throughout this six-month span embrace 9 Masters tournaments, notably the MT1000 Mont Tremblant Cup, 5 ITF Future Collection as a part of the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour, 4 seashore tennis occasions, and the annual Canadian College Championships.
The rest of the Nationwide Occasion Calendar, protecting the months of August to December, shall be unveiled in the end.
