CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Calgary National Bank Challenger Tournament Director, Danny Da Costa introduced a star-studded line-up in the present day for the upcoming event going down November 6 to 13, 2022 on the OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre.
Headlining the participant announcement was the shock addition of former World #5 and 2014 Wimbledon Singles Finalist Eugenie Bouchard of Montreal. Bouchard has established herself as one of the recognizable athletes on the earth with wins over former world #1 gamers together with Maria Sharapova, Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber and Caroline Wozniacki. She has additionally reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and French Open in 2014. Bouchard returned to the WTA Tour this summer season following shoulder surgical procedure.
“I’m looking forward to playing at the Calgary National Bank Challenger. I always enjoy playing at home in front of my Canadian tennis fans. I heard a lot of great things about the Calgary event, and I am looking forward to having a strong finish to my year,” says Eugenie Bouchard.
Joining Bouchard in the primary draw of the inaugural Calgary ladies’s occasion is Sabine Lisicki of Germany. Lisicki was a former World #12 singles participant and 2013 Wimbledon Singles Finalist. Holder of 4 WTA Tour titles, the German athlete has defeated world #1 gamers Serena & Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova.
The Women’s subject additionally contains 11 prime 200 gamers together with Sweden’s Mirjam Bjorklund (136 WTA), England’s Jodie Anna Burrage (141 WTA), and Italy’s Lucrezia Stefanini (143 WTA). Sixteen-year-old Czech prodigy Sara Bejlek (192 WTA) will even be making the journey to Calgary, together with a number of younger Canadian gamers together with Montreal’s Katherine Sebov and a number of other different Canadian gamers to be added through the qualifying occasion.
On the Men’s aspect, the event might be headlined as soon as once more by Canadian Tennis star Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, BC. The present Canadian #3 and Former World 25 is a 2014 Wimbledon Doubles Champion. Currently ranked 121 within the World, Pospisil has wins over Danill Medvedev, Andy Murray, Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov, Felix Auger-Alaissime and Richard Gasquet in his profession. He led Canada to the 2019 Davis Cup Final.
Five Top 200 males’s participant’s might be competing on this 12 months’s occasion together with Ecuador’s Emilio Gomez (105 ATP). Gomez is the son of former Grand Slam Champion and World #4 Andres Gomez. Also taking part in are, Argentina’s Juan Pablo Ficovich (143 ATP), Australia’s Aleksander Vukic (150 ATP) and Germany’s Dominik Koepfer (ATP 173), a former Top 50 participant. Fans will even get to cheer on a number of Canadian gamers together with, Alexis Galarneau (218 ATP) and young-star Gabriel Diallo (250 ATP).
Today’s announcement comes on the heels of Former World #4 Kei Nishikori’s withdrawal from the occasion on account of an harm setback stopping him from competing.
Local expertise will even be on show with OSTEN & VICTOR Alberta Tennis Centre members and Calgary’s Alexia Jacobs competing in her first skilled occasion, whereas Calgary’s Cleeve Harper will compete within the Men’s occasion. Harper is the 2022 NCAA Doubles Champion and took part within the National Bank Open this previous summer season.
“We are very excited to have world class talent like Eugenie Bouchard, Vasek Pospisil and Sabine Lisicki, as well as emerging talent like Canada’s Gabriel Diallo, Czech Republic’s Sara Bejlek and France’s Harold Mayot, playing in this year’s event,” says Danny Da Costa, Tournament Director for the Calgary National Bank Challenger. “This is a once in a life-time opportunity to see some of the best up-and-coming and established stars right here in Calgary.”
To view the Full Entry List for the Calgary National Bank Challenger Men’s & Women’s Event click on right here.
All matches from the occasion might be streamed reside on the ATP Tour (Men) & ITF Tennis (Women) Websites.
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 & ladies’s indoor tennis event in Canada. In two years, the Calgary National Bank Challenger has rapidly emerged as among the best ATP Challenger occasions on the earth 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 the earth.
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 help the event of the worldwide elite, the skilled tournaments present Canadian athletes with their first experiences on the Tours and the chance to earn worthwhile factors to maneuver up on the earth 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 services and has rapidly gained a popularity as among the best tennis services in North America. The community-based, state-of-the-art, household pleasant tennis facility positioned simply off certainly one of Calgary’s principal 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 help 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 1000’s 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 the earth. It is a extremely sought-after event vacation spot and hosts a number of worldwide occasions every year, together with the Calgary National Bank Challenger ATP occasion.
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