2025 may be nearing its end, but Canada’s juniors are wrapping up the season in style.
A handful more trophies are making their way back to the Great White North just in time for the holidays, particularly from a J30 event in Nassau, Bahamas, where Canadian girls accounted for every finals spot.
Here is the final monthly junior tennis update by Har-Tru, which also serves as the 2025 year-in-review of all the Canadian junior tennis action.
The CanCon was heavy at the J30 event in the Bahamian capital in the final week of November. 17-year-old Layla Notta was the big star, winning both the singles and doubles titles, beating her fellow Canadians in both finals.
Photo : Bahamas Tennis
In singles, Notta was the top seed and dominated, losing just three games and delivering five bagel sets on her way to the final. There, she had a much tougher test against compatriot Alexie Normandin, but Notta managed to sneak out a tight three-set final to secure her second ITF singles title of the season.
Normandin did not leave Nassau empty-handed, as she teamed up with Notta to win the doubles. They won an all-Canadian final over Diana Brustur and Elle Tucci, who themselves had beaten an all-Canadian pair composed of Evelina Nicolaeva and Anvika Saraswathi in the semis.
Photo : Bahamas Tennis
While the boys were unable to claim either of the winner’s trophies, there were plenty of strong performances in Nassau. Luke Basiji and Julian Mahdavi had the best run, reaching the doubles final. Another all-Canadian pair, Danylo Glinnyi and Luka Radosavljevic, got to the semis. In singles, there was a chance for an all-Canadian final when Radosavljevic and Benjamin Perreault reached the semis, but both Canucks were beaten.
Here is the full list of Canadians who reached finals over the last month (Titles in bold)
- Layla Notta: J30 Nassau girls singles champion (d. Normandin), J30 Nassau girls doubles champion (w/ Normandin, d. Brustur/Tucci)
- Alexie Normandin: J30 Nassau girls doubles champion (w/ Notta, d. Brustur/Tucci), J30 Nassau girls singles runner-up (l. to Notta)
- Jerry Han: J60 San Diego boys doubles champion
- Hana Bajramovic: J30 Harare girls doubles champion (w/ I. Bajramovic)
- Iman Bajramovic: J30 Harare girls doubles champion (w/ H. Bajramovic)
- Diana Brustur: J30 Nassau girls doubles runner-up (w/ Tucci, l. to Normandin/Notta)
- Elle Tucci: J30 Nassau girls doubles runner-up (w/ Brustur, l. to Normandin/Notta)
- Paolo Gonzalez Constantino: J60 Armenia boys doubles runner-up
- Luke Basiji: J30 Nassau boys doubles runner-up (w/ Mahdavi)
- Julian Mahdavi: J30 Nassau boys doubles runner-up (w/ Basiji)
As of Nov. 30, Canadian juniors combined to win over 100 titles on the ITF Tour in 2025; 55 in singles and 75 in doubles (counting all-Canadian pairs as one title).
Four Canadians are tied for the most singles titles by a Canuck in 2025 on the ITF Junior Tour with four each: Avery Alexander, Joshua Adamson, Nadia Lagaev, and Xavier Massotte. Lagaev had the biggest wins, with all four coming at the J200 level.
In doubles, Clemence Mercier led the way with five titles, four of them on home soil. Dani Szabo and Enoch Lin each scored four on the boys side.
In total in 2025, Adamson has the most combined titles with seven, adding three doubles titles to his four singles. Lagaev (four singles and two doubles) and Mercier (one singles and five doubles) are tied for the most overall among the girls with six apiece.
ITF Junior events continue throughout December so the final numbers could still change.
Rankings Update
Lagaev went wire-to-wire as Canada’s highest-ranked junior in 2025. She was the only Canadian to be ranked inside the Top 40 this year, hitting a career-high of No. 30 in February after a couple of titles in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She wraps up the season just one spot below that mark at No. 31.
Read also: Catching up with 2025 NBO Montreal Champion Victoria Mboko
Volodymyr Gurenko is the top Canadian boy at season’s end, sitting just outside Top 100 at No. 105. Nicolas Arseneault hit his career-high of No. 42 in the junior rankings in January, but only played one junior event in 2025 (the US Open), instead choosing to focus on the pros.
Check out the full ITF junior rankings here.
Team Canada
After mixed results in 2024, Canada’s junior teams bounced back brilliantly in 2025. All four squads, the Davis Cup Juniors, Billie Jean King Cup Juniors, and both U14 World Junior Tennis teams, qualified for their respective finals after strong showings in the regional qualifying held at IGA Stadium in April.
The U14 girls' team shone particularly bright in the World Junior Tennis finals in August, posting the best result in Canadian history at the competition by scoring a silver medal.
CLICK HERE for the U14 World Junior Tennis Finals recap.
CLICK HERE for the Davis Cup Juniors and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals recap.
CLICK HERE for the recap of the qualifying round in Montreal.
National Championships
Canada held its two annual Fischer Junior Nationals in March/April (indoors) and July/August (outdoors) of this year. Click the links below to read the tournament recaps:
- Under 18 Indoor
- Under 16 Indoor
- Under 14 Indoor
- Under 12 Indoor
- Under 18 Outdoor
- Under 16 Outdoor
- Under 14 Outdoor
- Under 12 Outdoor
For more detailed information on Canadian junior tennis results in 2025, check out the monthly updates by Har-Tru (Brackets indicate domestic tournaments covered that month):
- February
- March
- April (Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals)
- May (Woodbridge 1, Kingston, Quebec City, Ile des Soeurs, Team Canada Qualifying)
- June (Halifax, Fredericton, Calgary, Edmonton)
- July (Ottawa, Niagara, Winnipeg, Kamloops)
- August (Fischer Outdoor Junior Nationals, Vancouver)
- September (Fischer Outdoor Junior Nationals, Repentigny)
- October (Montreal, Quebec City)
- November (Richmond, Victoria, Woodbridge 2)
Feature Photo : Bahamas Tennis
