BIANCA TAKES HER SECOND ORANGE
BOWL TITLE.
Bianca Andreescu (Toronto, ON)
completed a spectacularly successful 2015 season with the most significant
victory of her young career on Sunday at the Metropolia Orange Bowl in
Plantation, Florida. She captured the U18 girls singles title by defeating
American Kayla Day in the finals 7-6, 6-2.
Bianca won the Under 16 Orange
Bowl singles title and was a runner up in the Under 14 Orange Bowl in 2014. Andreescu’s
other results in 2015 include, winning the singles and doubles titles at the
Condor De Plata in La Paz, Bolivia in February, reaching the final of the
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France Grade 1 event, reaching the final of the Gatineau
National Bank Challenger (a WTA event) and was a finalist in singles and a
champion in doubles at the Yucatan Cup, Mexico.
She was also the Rogers Canadian Junior Outdoor National U18 singles and
doubles champion.
It is expected that her year-end
World Junior ranking will be in the top 10 making her the highest ranked 15
year old in the world. She is the third Canadian junior to win the Under 18
Orange Bowl. Carling Bassett tool the title in 1982 and Gabriela Dabrowski in
2009.
Bianca trains as part of the
National Tennis Centre and is coached by former French star, Natalie Tauziat
OTHER ONTARIO JUNIORS WIN
HARDWARE IN FLORIDA
It’s December, the month when
tens of Ontario juniors travel to Florida, often with their family in tow, to
test their skill in a series of the junior tournaments which attract competitors
from around the world and maybe enjoy a little rest and relaxation in the
sun. There is the Eddie Herr, the Orange
Bowl (aka the Junior World Championships), the junior Orange Bowl and for the even
younger crowd there is the Little Mo International.
The Junior Orange Bowl is the
final event and it will be completed on Dec 22nd
Several Ontario players won
trophies in the Little Mo tournament, named after former player Maureen
Connolly and supported by the Maureen Connolly
Brinker Foundation. This event takes place in Palm Beach Gardens and is hosted by BallenIsles Country Club, PGA National Resort and Spa, Eastpointe Golf and Racquet Club and at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis
Centre. This year under 13 and under 14 events were added to this tournament
which has events for every age from under 8 to under 12 in one year increments.
Green dot and Yellow ball events are played for the 10 and under age categories.
Boys 8 (green) singles Nicolas Arseneault (Richmond Hill), champion.
Zachary Kimmelman (Thornhill), 3rd.
Boys 10 (green) singles Daniel Tsukinovsky (Richmond Hill),
champion
Girls 10 (yellow) singles Kayla
Cross (London) champion, Madison Lee (Mississauga) 3rd, Valeria Ray
(Toronto) 4th.
Girls 11 singles Dasha
Plekhanova (Toronto) champion, Arina Artemyeva, 3rd, Dharani
Niroshan (Richmond Hill) 4th
Girls 14 singles Alexandra
Arkhipov, champion.
The doubles events and the boys
11 singles have not been updated on the event web site so we do not have access
to those results yet. We believe that there were some trophy winners in the
doubles which we will publish if we get the information.
