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Canadian tennis gamers experienced one more difficult period ending today as Canada was removed from the Davis Cup with a 2-0 loss to Germany in the quarterfinals of the worldwide guys’s group champion in Spain.
With leading songs gamer Felix Auger-Aliassime missing out on the knockout phase for the 2nd straight year after leading Canada to its initial Davis Cup title in 2022, 86th-ranked Gabriel Diallo shed in straight collections toNo 88 Daniel Altmaier prior toNo 56 Denis Shapovalov dropped 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) toNo 43 Jan-Lennard Struff to finish a German move of the best-of-three connection.
Canada’s fast leave came 3 days after the Canadian ladies’s group likewise obtained brushed up in the quarterfinals of their Davis Cup comparable, the Billie Jean King Cup, dipped into the exact same interior sector in Malaga,Spain Leylah Fernandez can not duplicate her magic from in 2015, when she went 4-0 in songs dip into the 12-team Finals to aid Canada lift the Cup for the very first time. Fernandez and Rebecca Marino both shed in straight collections as Canada dropped quickly to Great Britain after a first-round bye.
As the 2024 tennis period ends today, Canada has simply 2 gamers placed in the leading 50 in songs. Auger-Aliassime has actually slid to 29th — below a career-high 6th as lately as March 2023 — while Fernandez has actually been up to 31st after getting toNo 13 in 2022. Neither gamer won an event this year, and their finest outcome at a Grand Slam was Auger-Aliassime’s moderate fourth-round go for the French Open.
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After Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo shed to Daniel Altmaier in the opening rubber of the Davis Cup Final quarterfinals in Malaga, Spain, Jan-Lennard Struff beat Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., 4-6, 7-5, 7-6( 5) to get rid of Canada.
The most interesting Canadian tennis minutes of 2024 came with the Olympics inParis Auger-Aliassime got to the guys’s semifinals as the 13th seed prior to obtaining waxed byNo 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, after that shed the bronze-medal suit to Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti in the optimum 3 collections. But Felix really did not leave empty-handed, teaming with Gabby Dabrowski to win the bronze in blended increases — Canada’s initially Olympic tennis medal because Daniel Nestor and Sebastien Lareau won the guys’s increases gold in 2000.
Dabrowski likewise had a superb year with her increases colleague Erin Routliffe — a Canadian that switched over to standing for New Zealand (her nation of birth) a couple of years back. The 2023 UNITED STATE Open champs got to the last at Wimbledon, won a smaller sized grass-court occasion in England and were the runners-up at 3 various other events (consisting of the top-tier Miami Open and Canada’s National Bank Open) to gain a place in the rewarding WTA Finals previously this month inSaudi Arabia They won the eight-team occasion, splitting $1.125 million United States. That’s the greatest prize money of the year for ladies’s increases.
Dabrowski, currently placed 3rd on the planet in increases, did not reach take the court at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals as Fernandez was not able to compel a choosing increases suit versus Great Britain on Sunday.
The British took place to shed their semifinal 2-1 to Slovakia, that today obtained brushed up in the champion connection byItaly World No. 4 Jasmine Paolini clinched her country’s first women’s Cup since 2013 with a 6-2, 6-1 gain 43rd-ranked Rebecca Sramkova.
The Davis Cup quarterfinals proceed Thursday with the United States vs. Australia (4 a.m. ET) and protecting champ Italy vs. Argentina (11 a.m. ET). Germany will certainly deal with the Netherlands in Friday’s semifinal after the Dutch sent Rafael Nadal into retirement with a 2-1 success over Spain the other day.
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