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Monday overview: Cressy’s victory to conclude the grass season

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Given the dominance of hard courts and cross country tennis over the past few decades, it’s easy to forget how different our sport was when most events were played on grass and service sequences- volley were the tactic of choice.

As the grass-court season wrapped up last week, fans in Newport, home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, got a reminder of how the game once was.

Here’s what you need to know.

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Over the past few seasons, Félix Auger-Aliassime has had great success on the grass. However, 2022 will be to forget for the young Canadian.

Auger-Aliassime will make the transition to the hard court after losing his last three matches on grass, including a first-round defeat at Wimbledon before losing his opening match at the Newport Open Hall of Fame at the hands of the Australian Jason Kubler.

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This duel was decided in the decisive game of the third set, which was postponed until the next day because of darkness. It was finally Kubler, eighth runner-up at Wimbledon, who snatched the 7-4 victory.

In recent weeks, Auger-Aliassime has had his share of decisive games. He won seven of the first nine he played this year and was 11 wins and 4 losses after his final in Marseille. But since his semi-final defeat in Halle he has lost five of his seven tie-breaking games, including the final set of the three most recent games he has lost.

To end the season, it was Maxime Cressy who won top honors in Newport by taking the measure of Alexander Bublik in the decisive game of the third act in the final.

The victory capped a stellar season for the American, who won his first title in his third final of the year, his second on the grass where his serve and volley style is most effective. Earlier this year, he reached the fourth round of the Australian Open before surprising Auger-Aliassime at Wimbledon.

Cressy isn’t the only one to claim his first ATP title this week. Indeed, Francisco Cerundolo was crowned champion of the Bastad tournament thanks to a win in the final at the expense of his compatriot Sebastian Baez.

In the second round, Cerundolo signaled the exit to Casper Ruud, event favorite and defending champion.

Two clay-court titles were awarded this week on the WTA Tour.

American Bernarda Para joined the circle of early winners in Budapest.

In the second round, Para surprised Aliaksandra Sasnovich (5e) and did not concede a set en route to the final in which she defeated Aleksandra Krunic.

Former Roland Garros champion Barbora Krejcikova was the favorite in the draw but suffered defeat in the opening round at the hands of Xiyu Wang.

In Lausanne, Petra Martic was the only one not to win a first title when she lifted the trophy – her first since 2019 – following her victory in the final at the expense of Olga Danilovic. In the quarterfinals, she got the better of second seed Belinda Bencic.

As in Budapest, the favorite was eliminated in the first round, Danielle Collins having fallen to Switzerland’s Simona Waltert as a curtain raiser.

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It’s been a quiet week for Canadian tennis, as none of our representatives play on the two main circuits.

Attention will be turned to the Hamburg event, where Carlos Alcaraz is at the head of a strong field also including the 8e Andrey Rublev, who will have as his first opponent Alexander Bublik, finalist in Newport, and could then cross swords with the champion of Bastad, Cerundolo.

Defending champion Pablo Carreno Busta and Diego Schwartzman are also in the game.

This week, Casper Ruud defends the second of his three 2021 titles. After losing prematurely in Bastad, he will try to recover in Gstaad where he is the favorite.

Matteo Berrettini, who was on a nine-game winning streak before missing Wimbledon due to COVID-19, will also be at Gstaad.

World No. 2 Anett Kontaveit is the favorite in Hamburg, while French Open semi-finalist Martina Trevisan tops the table in Palermo.

Under the radar: ITF lands in Saskatoon

Two Canadians reached doubles finals last week on the ITF circuit.

Recent NCAA champion Cleeve Harper won the doubles title in Pittsburgh alongside American Tyler Zink. The pair snatched a 10-6 victory in the third-set super tiebreak after sharing tiebreakers in the first two sets.

In the semi-finals, Harper got the better of his compatriot Joshua Lapadat.

Kelsey Stevenson reached the final of the tournament in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal with partner Ray Ho of Taipei. They lost 10-3 in the third set super tiebreaker against Rio Noguchi and Alexandros Skorilas.

The only notable women’s result was Vanessa Wong’s quarter-final in Cancún, Mexico. After making it through the qualifying rounds, she stunned the seventh seed in the second round before falling to second seed Sofia Sewing.

Vasek Pospisil continues his return to action this week as part of Un Challenger in Pozoblanco, Spain. In addition, Alexis Galarneau is taking part in a Challenger in Indianapolis.

This week, Canada is hosting an ITF women’s tournament in Saskatoon. The tournament features a large contingent of Canadian women, including several promising players, such as Victoria Mboko and Kayla Cross, two-time junior doubles finalists at the 2022 Grand Slam tournaments.

You can follow the Canadiens in action each week by clicking here.

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