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Another Masters/WTA 1000, but not with great attendance although Leylah Fernandez remains seeded, and representing on the women’s side.
Only Gabriel Diallo is wearing the red and white in the qualifying – either men’s or womens.
Players like Rebecca Marino, Carol Zhao and Alexis Galarneau just aren’t ranked high enough to make the cut right now.
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Miami Open
Miami, Fla. (ATP 1000 & WTA 1000)
Men’s singles
Félix Auger-Aliassime
1st rd: def [Q] Adam Walton (AUS) 75 64
2nd rd: lost to [4] Alexander Zverev (GER) 62 64
[PR] Denis Shapovalov
1st rd: def. Luciano Darderi (ITA) 63 67 (3) 64
2nd rd: def [10] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 62 64
3rd rd: lost to Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) 63 76 (7)
Alejandro Tabilo
1st rd: def [Q] Brandon Nakashima (USA) 64 36 63
2nd rd: lost to [11] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 67 (5) 76 (5) 62
Women’s singles
[31] Leylah Fernandez
1st rd: Bye
2nd rd: def [Q] Emiliana Arango (COL) 64 62
3rd rd: lost to [5] Jessica Pegula (USA) 75 64
Men’s qualifying, first round
Gabriel Diallo
1st rd: lost to [16] Sumit Nagal (IND) 76 (3) 62
Women’s doubles
[2] Gabriela Dabrowski / Erin Routliffe (NZL)
1st rd: def Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR) / Guo Hanyu (CHN) 63 62
2nd rd: def. Miyu Kato (JPN) / Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) 64 64
QF: vs. TBA
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Paraguay Open
Asunción, Paraguay (ATP Challenger)
Singles
Liam Draxl
1st rd: lost to Orlando Luz (BRA) 67 (1) 75 64
Doubles
Liam Draxl / Alexander Weis (ITA)
1st rd: lost to [2] Marcelo Demoliner / Orlando Luz (BRA) 75 75
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Yucatan Open
Merida, Mexico (ATP Challenger)
Singles
[Q] Dan Martin
1st rd: lost to Gabi Adrian Boitan (ROU) 62 63
Doubles
Dan Martin / Preston Brown (USA)
1st rd: lost to Murkel Dellien (BOL) / Facundo Mena (ARG) 63 63
Singles qualifying
[4] Dan Martin
1st rd: Bye
Final rd: def. [7] E Jose Ribeiro Lago (MEX) 64 63
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ITF Audax Badalona Open 2024
Badalona, Spain (ITF $25K)
Singles
[2] Steven Diez
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M25 Calabasas
Calabasas, Calif. (ITF $25K)
Doubles
[2] Benjamin Sigouin / Finn Reynolds (USA)
1st rd: vs Gianluca Brunkow (USA) / Pablo Masjuan Ginel (ESP) 63 64
QF: def. [WC] Samuel Rubell / Niroop Vallabhaneni (USA) 63 76 (4)
SF: vs. [3] Patrick Harper (AUS) / Emile Hudd (GBR)
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ITF 15 Heraklion
Heraklion, Greece (ITF Men’s & Women’s $15K)
Men’s singles
[2] Filip Peliwo (POL)
1st rd: def. Matthew William Donald (CZE) 63 63
2nd rd: lost to [Q] Martin Klizan (SVK) 62 67 (3) 61
[WC] Aurel Ciocanu
1st rd: lost to Zura Tkemaladze (GEO) 64 62
Men’s doubles
[1] Filip Peliwo (POL) / Ryuki Matsuda (JPN)
1st rd: lost to Ron Ellouck / Ben Weintraub (ISR) 26 76 (1) [10-7]
Men’s singles qualifying
[WC] Mathias Uwe Kask
1st rd: lost to [8] Jean-Christian Morandais (GUD) 62 64
Nicola Ion
1st rd: lost to [12] Ben Weintraub (ISR) 61 61
Women’s singles qualifying
Rebecca Herrington
1st rd: lost to Annemarie Lazar (GER) 60 63
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Magic Hotel Tours
Monastir, Tunisia (ITF $15K)
Men’s singles qualifying
Andre Szilvassy
1st rd: def Riccardo Mascarini (ITA) 76 (3) 75
2nd rd: lost to [8] Andrea Bolla (ITA) 76 (6) 76 (4)
Stefan Frljanic
1st rd: lost to [WC] Tommaso Vola (ITA) 60 36 [10-6]
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Egypt 8 Sharm ElSheikh Future
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (ITF $15K)
Singles qualifying
[9] Razvan Baiant
1st rd: def. Daniil Evseev (RUS) 62 63
2nd rd: def Manuele Ferrari (ITA) 62 61
Final rd: lost to [1] Lorenzo Lorusso (ITA) 63 62
I agree with everything you said. I did think she played really well against a much more experienced Vekic in San Diego even though she lost. So, I would think that if a young player like her shows quite a bit of promise that Tennis Canada would do all they could to help her along. I don’t know what their policy is about coaching. If they don’t feel like they have a coach for her, would they pay for her to get one outside of Tennis Canada? I’m guessing, No, but then they are not doing all they could to help our promising young players. It’s not like Canada has a lot of players on the main tours right now especially on the women’s side. One would think that TC would want to get as many of them up there as possible. Sorry for going on, but even though I love tennis, there is so much I don’t know about how things work behind the scenes, & you are always able to answer my questions. I really appreciate your taking the time to always respond & enlighten me.
They’re helping her plenty.
They’ve gone “outside” to find coaches for plenty of players.
I have no idea what’s up, other than it’s possible she’s just not 100 per cent healthy.
She’s in Florida, as far as I know.
I’m curious too, but no chance getting a straight answer from them because if you even DARE to question their genius, it gets messy 🙂
Any idea when we might see Marina Stakusic play next?
Tough to find good places to play with her current ranking.
Wouldn’t that mean playing Challengers &/or ITFs to try & get her ranking up so that she could enter WTA tournaments? Tks.
Obviously, although the women don’t have Challengers.
That’s what she was already doing.
She could probably get into smaller WTA event’s qualifying. Except during this Sunshine Double period, there are no other WTA events at all.
And not many higher-prize money ITFs, either.
And she’s not entered in ANY of the 125s over the next month or two. At least not so far.
Plus, she may not be completely healthy – remember she only started with that one tournament in San Diego in late February. And even that, she got a wild card.
She was entered in a $60K ITF in France next week, but pulled out late a few days ago. She wasn’t entered in another in Croatia the following week (which is geographically nearer) but IS scheduled to go ALL the way down to Brazil to play one that week instead. But there’s only that one down there.
I don’t even think she has a full-time coach.
When Tennis Canada is in charge, I rarely even question; they just do things … however they do them.
Tks for the detailed explanation. You would think that after her tremendous performance a the BJK Cup last year, Tennis Canada would be throwing the best coaching they have at her. But, as you said, they do things their own way.
They don’t have very many good coaches to throw, which is true of most national federations.
I mean, she had one excellent match against a predominantly clay-court player in Trevisan, where indoor hard courts are clearly her best surface. Krejcikova trounced her.
And plenty of players have had great moments playing for the country, where they overachieved, in a sense.
In an “actual” tournament, the best ranked played she has ever beaten was … No. 152. And that was at home.
I’m not sure this qualifies as making her the next big star.
So we should tone down the hype and see where she leads. It’s just too soon to tell.