Martin Wins in Sherbrooke, Canadians Shut Out in Trois-Rivieres

The host nation had purpose to have a good time within the first week of home skilled occasions held in Canada as Dan Martin walked away with the doubles title on the ITF M25 occasion in Sherbrooke, QC final week.  

He was the one Canadian winner on the two occasions held in Quebec, with the highest honours on the girls’s event in Trois-Rivieres being claimed by representatives of the UK and United States.  

M15 Sherbrooke 

Martin and his American accomplice Matt Kuhar needed to principally do it the laborious method in Sherbrooke. They wanted match tiebreaks in all three of their matches, though they did get a walkover within the quarter-finals.  

The pair knocked off the highest seeds Keshav Chopra and Philip Jordan of the US within the semifinals earlier than defeating one other all-American pair, Andrew Fenty and Daniel Milavsky, 10-8 within the match tiebreak within the ultimate. It’s Martin’s second skilled doubles title, having received his first earlier within the 12 months in Huamantla, Mexico. 

In singles, the final Canadian standing was wildcard Nicaise Muamba, who misplaced to the eventual champion Patrick Maloney of the US within the quarter-finals. Muamba very practically upset the top-seeded Maloney, taking the opening set and pushing the second to a tiebreak earlier than the American escaped in three units. The Canadian picked up a pair of factors within the Highway to the NBO because of his quarter-final look and presently sits eleventh within the males’s standings. 

Maloney defeated Milavksy, who misplaced each the singles and doubles finals in Sherbrooke, for the title in three units. 

W15 Trois-Rivieres 

High seed Emily Appleton of Nice Britain lived as much as her standing because the favorite in Trois-Rivieres, claiming the singles title. She beat No. 5 seed Malaika Rapolu of the US in three units within the ultimate.  

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Within the doubles, it was the unseeded pair of Elizabeth Ionescu and Christasha McNeil lifting the trophy. They beat the third seeds Dasha Ivanova and Amy Zhu within the ultimate 10-2 within the match tiebreak. All 4 finalists have been American. 

No Canadian made it previous the quarter-finals in both draw. Clemence Mercier got here very shut in singles, taking the opening set and in the end falling 8-6 within the third-set tiebreak of her conflict with Valentina Ivanov of New Zealand. Mercier was the one Canadian in singles to achieve the quarter-finals.  

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On account of her run to the final eight, Mercier picked up three factors within the Highway to the NBO and presently sits 14th within the girls’s race. 

The all-Canadian pair of Brooke Feth and Anna Tabunshchyk reached the doubles quarter-finals, as did Raphaelle Lacasse and her American accomplice Taylor Gruber, however each groups misplaced in straight units. 

ITF motion descends on Montreal this week with each the women and men competing at 15-level occasions at IGA Stadium. 

CLICK HERE for the most recent standings within the Highway to the NBO.