2024 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals Preview

The 2024 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals are set to get underway in Prostejov, Czechia.

Canada’s boys workforce is among the 16 squads that certified for the under-14 occasion, beating out Mexico and Guatemala to safe a spot within the finals.

All three gamers that helped Canada qualify for the finals will return in Prostejov.

Captain Phillippe Courteau will lead Callum MacKinnon, Julian Mahdavi, and Luca Vicol into the clay court docket occasion.

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MacKinnon is having fun with a banner 2024 to date, having claimed the 2024 Below 14 Fischer Indoor Nationwide Championship in April, beating Staff Canada teammate Mahdavi within the ultimate. The Toronto, Ont. native has additionally received the Yonex U14 Indoor Provincial Doubles Championship alongside companion Timofey Dobrovolsky.

Mahdavi, a fellow Ontario native, has claimed loads of {hardware} himself this season, successful the Provincial Championship in each the singles and doubles competitions.

Vicol, a local of British Columbia, received the 2024 Indoor Provincial Championships in February and completed because the runner-up within the doubles competitors on the 2024 Indoor Nationwide Championships

All three gamers are members of the U15 Canadian Prospect Staff.

Canada will probably be in a bunch with Nice Britain (3), Japan (5), and the Netherlands. The workforce’s first match will probably be on Monday in opposition to the fifth-seeded Japanese workforce. 

Canada completed second at this occasion in 2023, dropping to this yr’s host Czechia within the ultimate. Canada has by no means been topped world champions regardless of 18 World Junior Tennis Finals appearances.

Japan completed 1-2 within the spherical robin in 2023 and didn’t attain the knockout rounds. Nice Britain completed atop their group in 2023 at 2-1 however have been eradicated by France within the quarter-finals. The Netherlands will probably be making its first look within the boys’ draw on the World Junior Tennis Finals.

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Of the 16 groups that certified for the occasion, the USA holds probably the most titles with six, adopted by Spain and France with three apiece.

The event takes place from Aug. 5-10. The event consists of 16 groups divided into 4 teams. Every nation will play three group stage matches with the highest two groups in every group advancing to the knockout stage.

Lots of the world’s high professionals participated within the ITF World Junior Tennis Finals of their careers, together with Canadians Félix Auger-Aliassime and Bianca Andreescu, in addition to Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Iga Swiatek. 

This would be the twenty fifth time the Tenisovy Klub Prostejov has hosted the World Junior Tennis Finals. The membership first staged the event in 1999.

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