Monday Digest: Canadians Search for Reset in Miami

Indian Wells didn’t present the outcomes the Canadians have been most likely hoping for, however the good factor concerning the Sunshine Double is the Miami Open is true there to offer a recent slate. 

Whereas the same old suspects will kick off their campaigns after byes, a brand new Canadian face is on the point of step into the highlight on the 1000-level occasion. 

Right here’s what it is advisable to know. 

In Case You Missed It: Fast Week in Indian Wells 

The Canadian content material was restricted to only one match within the second week of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Solely Denis Shapovalov made it by means of and his marketing campaign got here to an finish in spherical three by the hands of Carlos Alcaraz on Monday evening. 

The entire different Canadians in singles and doubles have been eradicated in week one. 

Click on right here for extra information and outcomes from the ATP and WTA Excursions.

What at Watch: Mboko Debut Highlights Miami Draw 

The second leg of the Sunshine Double will get underway this week with not less than 4 Canadians competing within the singles draw. 

18-year-old Victoria Mboko might be making her WTA 1000 debut this week. The ITF’s 2025 match win and title chief was given a wildcard after her sizzling begin to the season and might be competing in simply her second WTA Tour primary draw, her first since 2022. 

Mboko will open towards Camila Osorio and would face tenth seed Paula Badosa within the second spherical.  

Becoming a member of Mboko within the ladies’s singles draw might be Leylah Annie Fernandez. The Lavalloise is the twenty sixth seed and has a first-round bye. She’s going to face both Varvara Gracheva or Alycia Parks in her opening match. Two-time Miami Open runner-up and seventh seed Elena Rybakina looms within the third spherical. 

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Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov are the 2 Canadians assured to be within the males’s draw. Each might be seeded and have first-round byes.  

Auger-Aliassime is the 18th seed and can open towards a qualifier. He might play fifteenth seed Lorenzo Musetti within the third spherical and will meet six-time Miami champion Novak Djokovic in spherical 4. They’re within the backside half of the draw with second seed Carlos Alcaraz. 

Shapovalov, the twenty seventh seed, is within the prime half of the draw. He’ll play both Nicolas Jarry or Mariano Navone in his opening match with third seed Taylor Fritz looming in spherical three. 

Gabriel Diallo continues to be alive in qualifying. Alexis Galarneau, Liam Draxl, Rebecca Marino, Marina Stakusic, and Carson Branstine all competed in qualifying however all misplaced within the first spherical. 

The doubles attracts haven’t but been introduced. 

Beneath the Radar: 

Every week after Dan Martin bought the job executed on house soil, Raphaelle Lacasse adopted go well with, successful the ladies’s doubles title on the ITF W15 occasion in Montreal. Joshua Lapadat reached the boys’s singles last and Nicaise Muamba bought to the boys’s doubles last, however each have been defeated. 

Click on right here for the total Montreal event recap.

That was the one victory on the professional excursions for Canada final week. There have been two different shut calls, with Kelsey Stevenson shedding within the doubles last at an ATP Challenger occasion in Hersonissos, Greece, and Alvin Tudorica falling within the singles last at an ITF occasion in Huamantla, Mexico. 

The ITF Masters World Staff Championships for the 30+, 35+, 40+, and 45+ divisions befell final week in Antalya, Turkey, however no Canadian staff was in a position to convey house any medals. Canada had squads competing in all 4 males’s divisions and within the 30+ ladies’s occasion. The perfect Canadian consequence was the ladies’s 30+ staff, who got here fifth. 

Consideration shifts this week in Antalya to the Masters World Particular person Championships for a similar age teams. 

This week on the ITF World Tour, there are sizeable Canadian contingents competing at a pair of occasions in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. There’s additionally a trio of Canadians competing at an ATP Challenger in Merida, Mexico. 

You may comply with the Canadians in motion each week right here.