Canadian Tennis Star Vasek Pospisil to Return to Calgary

CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Calgary National Bank Challenger Tournament (Challenger) Director Danny Da Costa is thrilled to announce that Canadian skilled tennis participant Vasek Pospisil will compete on the upcoming match happening from November 6-13 on the OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre.

Pospisil is the third main tennis star to be confirmed for the occasion. He is becoming a member of 2014 US OPEN singles finalist and former World #4 Kei Nishikori of Japan and 2013 Wimbledon singles finalist and former World #12 Sabine Lisicki of Germany. Pospisil is a Grand Slam Doubles Champion, profitable the 2014 Wimbledon Doubles Title with companion Jack Sock of the United States of America.

Pospisil, who has been ranked as excessive as Number 25 on this planet in Singles and Number 4 in Doubles, was named Postmedia’s Male Athlete of the Year for 2019 and is at the moment ranked #122 on this planet on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. Having just lately reached the Quarterfinals of the ATP 250 occasion in Tel Aviv, he misplaced a tightly contested match to Novak Djokovic. Pospisil adopted his quarter-final end in Tel Aviv with a ultimate’s look on the ATP Challenger occasion in Mouilleron le Captif, France. He was additionally named to the Canadian Davis Cup Team, which just lately certified for the Davis Cup Finals working November 22-27, 2022, in Malaga, Spain.

With wins over Top 20 gamers Daniil Medvedev, Andy Murray, Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov, Félix Auger-Aliassime and Richard Gasquet, he has additionally been within the finals of three ATP Tour occasions, together with two ATP Tour 250 occasions in 2020 Sofia & Montpellier and an ATP Tour 500 occasion in Washington in 2014. Pospisil has additionally captured seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour.

“I’m extremely excited to be coming back to Calgary for the National Bank Challenger,” says Vasek Pospisil. “Danny and his team have done an incredible job bringing top tier tennis to Calgary and creating a world class event for the spectators and players. I will try to keep building on my recent momentum and end the year strong as I head into the 2023 season. It will be a great challenge as this event always attracts strong talent from around the world.”

Following the second successful event in 2020 which sold over 8,600 tickets, organizers have since added a Women’s ITF Pro Circuit event for the 2022 tournament, making the Calgary National Bank Challenger the only combined Indoor Professional Event in Canada. The tournament will feature some of the best up-and-coming and established men’s and women’s professional tennis players in the world competing for ATP and WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) rankings.

“We are thrilled to have Vasek Pospisil return for the second time at Calgary National Bank Challenger,” says Danny Da Costa, Tournament Director of the Challenger. “It’s a testomony to the occasion we’re working to appeal to world-class gamers like Vasek, Nishikori and Lisicki to our occasion, and we hope to proceed to make the Calgary National Bank Challenger a should attend occasion for each the gamers and our followers in Calgary.”

In addition to being the most important indoor skilled tennis occasion in Canada, the Calgary National Bank Challenger will function a number of thrilling actions, together with a chance to take part in a doubles clinic hosted by former World Number one Doubles Player, Olympic Champion and eight-time Grand Slam Champion, Daniel Nestor. Pospisil may also host an autograph signing (date/time to be decided) on the Hekate Booth through the Challenger. A jazz live performance that includes Juno-nominated Calgarian Al Muirhead, may also happen on Sunday, November 13 starting at 11:00 a.m.

On Saturday, November 12, Tennis Canada will probably be presenting Patrick Thomas, volunteer and Danny Da Costa, OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre CEO, Calgary National Bank Challenger Tournament Director with the 2021 Tennis Canada Distinguished Service Awards for his or her contributions to the sport of tennis in Alberta and Canada. OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre Tennis Director Nick Coutts may also obtain Tennis Professional Association (TPA) Canadian Club Professional of the Year Award for 2021. As effectively, prior to the beginning of the finals on November 13, Ron Ghitter, OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre Board Chair, will probably be inducted into the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame within the builder class.

As a number one match for Canadian tennis gamers, the Calgary National Bank Challenger is supported by notable sponsors together with: The National Bank, Tennis Canada, Government of Alberta, Tourism Calgary, the Concorde Group, MNP, Dentons LLP, Rogers Sportsnet 960, Bell Media, Corus Entertainment, Post Media, Pattison, Glenmore Audi, Porsche Centre Calgary, Rogers Communications and plenty of extra. The occasion may also function a few of Canada’s prime eating places together with Major Tom’s, Lulu Bar, Pigeonhole, Model Milk, Ricardo’s Hideaway, Surfy Surfy and Bridgette Bar within the Rogers Hospitality Lounge.

Ahead of the match, the official participant and line up announcement will probably be made at The CORE Shopping Centre (The CORE) on October 24, 2022, starting at 11:30 am throughout an thrilling pre-event celebration. The public are inspired to be part of match organizers at The CORE from October 24 to November 3 as a part of the CORE Shopping Centre Mall Promotion, which incorporates alternatives to play with tennis professionals and purchase and win tickets to the extremely anticipated occasion.

For extra info and to buy tickets go to: www.calgary.nationalbankchallenger.com.

ABOUT THE CALGARY NATIONAL BANK CHALLENGER 
The Calgary National Bank Challenger is the one mixed males’s & girls’s indoor tennis match in Canada. In two years, the Calgary National Bank Challenger has rapidly emerged as top-of-the-line ATP Challenger occasions on this planet and certainly one of Alberta’s premier sporting occasions. In 2022, the Challenger will host our inaugural International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women’s Pro Circuit $60K Event that includes lots of the greatest up-and-coming and established feminine gamers on this planet.

ABOUT NATIONAL BANK CHALLENGER TOURNAMENTS
The Calgary National Bank Challenger is amongst a number of tournaments within the Challenger circuit sponsored by National Bank in Canada. Aiming to assist the event of the worldwide elite, the skilled tournaments present Canadian athletes with their first experiences on the Tours and the chance to earn invaluable factors to transfer up on this planet rankings. Over the years, the National Bank Challenger tournaments have served as a springboard for gamers together with Canadian stars Félix Auger-Aliassime, Leylah Annie Fernandez, Denis Shapovalov and Bianca Andreescu, in addition to Casper Ruud, Maxime Cressy and John Isner of the US, Daniel Evans of the UK, Angelique Kerber and Sabine Lisicki of Germany and Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.

OSTEN & VICTOR ALBERTA TENNIS CENTRE
The OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre is certainly one of Canada’s premier tennis amenities and has rapidly gained a repute as top-of-the-line tennis amenities in North America. The community-based, state-of-the-art, household pleasant tennis facility positioned simply off certainly one of Calgary’s most important routes, MacLeod Trail, is positioned within the coronary heart of Acadia (SE Calgary) and covers 71,000 sq. ft, over 3.19 acres. The OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre opened within the spring of 2016 to important acclaim and is championed by native funders with the assist of Tennis Canada. The $13 million-dollar, non-profit tennis centre has rapidly established itself because the benchmark for facility design and operation in Canada and gained the Tennis Canada Facility Excellence Award (Indoor Facility of the Year) in 2017. The tennis Centre welcomed over 150,000 folks since opening its doorways in 2016 and has launched the sport of tennis to hundreds of Calgarians since opening. The tennis Centre has been constructed to worldwide competitors requirements and is taken into account essentially the most technologically superior tennis Centre in Canada and is among the many most technologically superior Centres on this planet. It is a extremely sought-after match vacation spot and hosts a number of worldwide occasions annually, together with the Calgary National Bank Challenger ATP occasion.

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