The National Granby National Bank Championships, the oldest Challenger tournament in Canada, are the latest Canadian Summer Professional Tournament before the start of the National Bank Omnium at the end of July.
If the first place of The road to the OBN is determined in men After Liam Draxl’s victory at Winnipegeverything is still at stake for women.
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The upper half of the female table includes three of the first five of the classification of The road to the OBN.
The leader, Kayla Cross, is the fourth seeded in Granby and could measure herself up with the Toronto Cadena Brace in the second round. Brace is 67 points behind cross to The road to the OBNwhose issue is a pass for omnium national banking. Last year, Cross reached the final in Granby.
Ariana Arseneault, who is ahead of two points, is also in the same half of the table. The first match of Richmond Hill’s player is against the American qualified Lilian Poling.
Scarlett Nicholson is also opposed to an American qualified in the first round. She faces Victoria Hu with the possibility of meeting Arseneault in the quarterfinals.
Cross and Arseneault could cross the iron in the square of ace. Cross would get the pass for the Montreal Tournament later this month if it reaches the final. She has a lot of control over her own destiny, because brace and arseneault must both reach the final to have a chance to seize the first place in The road to the OBNbut both should eliminate cross to get there.
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There is only one Canadian duel in the first round at the bottom of the table, that between Mia Kupres and Caral Zhao. In addition, Katherine Sebov, who needs the title and some early eliminations to delight the pass of The road to onbfaces the qualified Haley Giavara, from the United States, in the first round.
Apart from Cross, Brace and Arseneault, the other Canadian women who hope to win The road to the NBO will have to conquer the title, and even in this case, they will need early cross -on to have a chance. If Cross reaches the semi-final, all the Canadian women, with the exception of Arseneault, have no chance.
In doubles, the favorites, Arseneault and Kupres, are the reigning champions and have already crossed the first round. In the second round, they could compete with their compatriots Annabelle and Naomi Xu.
Brace and Nicholson were eliminated in the first round by Canadian Alexandra Vagramov and her Czech partner Darja Vidmanova.
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After winning the title in Winnipeg – his first of the year in six finals – Draxl hopes to succeed in a double in Granby. The 23 -year -old could meet a Canadian in each turn, since Alexander Rozin, Alexis Galarneau, Justin Boulais and Juan Carlos Aguilar are all at the bottom of the painting with him.
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Galarneau won the event in 2023, but was eliminated in the first round in 2024.
Nicolas Arseneault, brother of Ariana, is the only Canadian in the first half of the table. In curtain rising, it will be measured in Japanese James Trotter (7e).
In double, there can be no Canadian clashes before the semi-finals. Keegan Rice and Rozin as well as the Arseneault twins are the only fully Canadian teams.
Draxl and his American partner Tyler Zink are the second heads. Toronto Kelsey Stevenson and Australian Omar Jasika will have a lot to do against the favorites, the New Zealanders Finn Reynolds and James Watt.
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