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The qualifiers are full on the 2024 Calgary Nationwide Financial institution Challenger
Canada’s Benjamin George made his approach by way of qualifying Tuesday with a 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-4 victory over compatriot Nicolas Arsenault on the OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre.
George now heads to the tourney’s primary draw, the place the Ontarian joins fellow Canucks Vasek Pospisil, Liam Draxl, Justin Boulais, Cleeve Harper — of Calgary — and Alexis Galarneau, who has already scored a 6-4, 6-3 win over Romania’s Gabi Adrian Boitan in main-draw motion.
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On the ladies’s aspect, no Canadians made it by way of the qualifier to affix the primary draw, which incorporates Canucks Carson Branstine, Cadence Brace, Stacey Fung, Mia Kupres, Kayla Cross, Rebecca Marino and Alexia Jacobs, of Calgary. Canadian Isabelle Boulais was knocked out of the competitors Tuesday with a main-draw loss — 6-2, 6-3 — to Brace.
A trio of Canadians are finished, as effectively, in ladies’s doubles motion. Sophie Stanton and Gabriella Vannessa Lindgren fell to People Anna Rogers and Jessica Failla 6-2, 6-1, and Raphaelle Lacasse and Romanian accomplice Gabriela Lee have been knocked out by the crew of Switzerland’s Jenny Duerst and Croatia’s Lucija Ciric Bagaric 7-6(2), 1-6, 11-9.
Nationwide Sport Faculty graduate Hailey Murphy added to the Calgary contingent at The Challenger to assist showcase the town’s homegrown expertise on the nationwide stage. However she didn’t make it by way of qualifying the previous few days.
The Challenger, which runs by way of Sunday on the ATC, is at the moment the biggest worldwide tennis match in Canada outdoors of the Nationwide Financial institution Open, which is comprised of the ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 occasions. The Challenger options lots of the finest up-and-coming and established stars on the ATP Tour and WTA World Tour.
— Postmedia Calgary
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