the canadian player Liam Draxl and seeded number 5, won in the quarter-finals of the tournament Laval For 7(7)-6(5) and 6-4 australian style Philippe Sekulicnumber 470 of the ATP and seeded number 3. After this result, the Canadian player obtains a place for the semi-finals of the tournament of Laval.

Sekulic managed to break his opponent’s serve 2 times, while Draxl did it 3 times. Similarly, the Canadian tennis player achieved 69% efficiency on the first serve, committed 4 double faults and took 64% of the points on serve, while his rival achieved 57% efficiency, committed a double fault and succeeded to win 63% of the points on serve. serve.

In the semi-finals, Draxl will face the Jamaican player Blaise Bicknell and seed number 6.

the tournament of Laval (ITF Canada F3) takes place July 9-16 on an outdoor hard court. A total of 55 tennis players compete in the championship.

Tennis is unquestionably a classic sport. Each year, four tournaments (called “Grand Slams”) attract all the attention of the world: the season begins with the australian opencontinue with the dirt track of Roland Garrosthen travels to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and finally ends in the USA with the U.S. Open.

The rest of the year, players also compete around the world completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay either grass.

tennis was born in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sports start date of the tour. It was particularly popular among the upper classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a world sport. Divides into two categories: the male (ATP) and female (WTA) competition.

There ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players which brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP circuit organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (if a player wins the tournament, he will get 1000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower rung, we would have the ATP Challenger Tour, where future tennis stars world face to face. In addition, the association also takes care of the Grand Slams.

The fight to be the best in history is still latent among men. The Spaniard Raphael Nadalhe Serbian Novak Djokovic and the Swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and win the most Grand Slam tournaments. The three players are often called ‘big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These potential future tennis stars have stormed into the world tennis circuit, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfrom Italian Matteo Berretinigerman Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev And Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 in the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

There WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was founded in 1973 by the famous former tennis player billie jean king. The Californian has won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active phase and is a reference and an icon for the world of tennis.

Currently, many tennis players in the female category are competing to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari either Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the top 10 of the WTA rankings.

In 2022, the Australian player Asleigh Barty announced his final retirement from the world of tennis and left behind an impressive career with several Grand Slam tournaments behind him. Now is the time for other players to take over and become number 1.