With the Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals right around the corner, Canada’s juniors are building momentum on the ITF Tour. Over the last four weeks, the Canucks were making deep runs all over the place, especially throughout the Americas.
Here is the monthly junior tennis update.
26 different Canadians combined to reach 25 finals, winning seven titles (doubles finals and titles involving multiple Canadians counts as one) since the last time we checked in with the juniors.
Elisabeth Djabourian accounted for two of those titles, going back-to-back in doubles at a pair of ITF J60 events in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Partnering with American Aarini Bhattacharya, they only dropped two sets across the two events.
The first draw in San Luis Potosi was the tougher one for Djabourian and Bhattacharya, as they rallied from a set down in the quarter-finals against the all-Canadian pair of Amy Shen and Rachel Wu. Then in the final, they edged out the top-seeded team 10-7 in the match tiebreak.
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A week later, they had a much easier time, winning the title without dropping a set. Impressively, Djabourian and Bhattacharya beat the same two teams that had given them trouble the prior week back-to-back in the semis and final, this time scoring both wins in straight sets. The two titles doubled the 14-year-old Canadian’s career total on the ITF Junior circuit.
The biggest win of the month by a Canadian came in Lima, Peru, where Benjamin Azar reached both the singles and doubles finals, securing the J300 doubles title with Frenchman Mathys Domenc. It was the biggest title of the 17-year-old's career. He lost to his doubles partner in the singles final.
Here are the Canadian finalists from ITF Junior Tour events outside of Canada over the last month (titles in bold):
- Elisabeth Djabourian: J60 San Luis Potosi 1 girls doubles champion, J60 San Luis Potosi 2 girls doubles champion
- Benjamin Azar: J300 Lima boys doubles champion, J300 Lima boys singles runner-up
- Andrea Cabio: J200 Punta Cana 1 girls doubles champion
- Isabella Ruyu Yan: J60 Zapopan girls singles champion
- Samuel Pelletier: J60 Guatemala 1 boys doubles champion (w/ Tardif, d. Pages)
- Antoine Tardif: J60 Guatemala 1 boys doubles champion (w/ Pelletier, d. Pages)
- Ryder Danis: J30 Kingston boys singles champion (w/ Djuricic)
- Stefan Djuricic: J30 Kingston boys doubles champion (w/ Danis)
- Joshua Adamson: J200 Punta Cana 1 boys singles runner-up, J200 Punta Cana 1 boys doubles runner-up (w/ Colburne)
- Charlize Celebrini: J200 Las Vegas girls doubles runner-up
- Caden Colburne: J200 Punta Cana 1 boys doubles runner-up (w/ Adamson)
- Elicia Lin: J200 Punta Cana 2 girls doubles runner-up
- Rafael Bote: J60 Claremont boys doubles runner-up
- Tomas Giachero: J60 Trujillo boys doubles runner-up
- Mihajlo Ilic: J60 Siroki Brijeg boys doubles runner-up
- Julia Ionescu: J60 Guatemala 2 girls doubles runner-up
- Jasmine Li: J60 Siroki Brijeg girls doubles runner-up
- Filip Malis: J60 Bollene-Sorgues boys doubles runner-up
- Martin Salvador Pages: J60 Guatemala 1 boys doubles runner-up (l. to Pelletier/Tardif)
- Amy Shen: J60 San Luis Potosi 2 girls singles runner-up
- Rachel Wu: J60 San Luis Potosi 1 girls singles runner-up
- Tristan de Cande: J30 Domsjo boys doubles runner-up
- Sophia Montemurro: J30 Lahaina girls doubles runner-up
- Evelina Nicolaeva: J30 Kingston girls doubles runner-up
- Ilya Sherifali: J30 Kingston boys singles runner-up
- Lucas Wang: J30 Lahaina boys doubles runner-up
The 2026 Fischer Indoor Junior Nationals will take place over the next month. The U12 and U16 events will take place in Calgary and Montreal in the final week of March, with the U14s and U18s the following week in Vancouver and Toronto.
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Rankings Update
As a result of his performance in Lima, Benjamin Azar hit a career-high ranking of No. 43 in the ITF junior rankings in late February. He currently sits at No. 48, three spots behind the top-ranked Canadian boy, Xavier Massotte.
Nadia Lagaev remains the top Canadian overall at No. 38 in the girls rankings, although she has not played an ITF junior event since the Australian Open. The 18-year-old has been playing pro events on the ITF World Tour since February.
Check out the full ITF junior rankings here.
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