Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount,QC) won her second title in as many weeks on Saturday as she was crowned champion of Futures Rising Star, a $10,000 ITF event held in Bastad, Sweden. 

Bouchard, seeded third in the tournament, took on Milana Spremo of Serbia in the final. The

South Africa Declines Its Right to Host 

Canadian tennis fans will have the chance to support their Davis Cup team on home soil this September as their Davis Cup play-off opponent, South Africa, who had been awarded “choice of ground” in a draw, elected to play in Canada. 

After winning two matches over the weekend to qualify for the main draw, Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, QC) took on world no. 29  Julia Goerges of Germany in the opening round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome on Monday, a WTA Premier 5 event. 

The match marked

21-year-old Canadian comes up short in a third set tiebreak in Madrid

Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) took 16-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer to a third set tiebreak, but ultimately came up short in his second round match on Wednesday at the Mutua Madrid Open, an ATP World Tour

21-year-old Canadian defeats Nalbandian in the first round of Madrid 

Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON), who took a week off after reaching the semifinals in Barcelona, played his opening round match on Tuesday against David Nalbandian at the Mutua Madrid Open, an ATP World Tour

Daniel Nestor and his partner Max Mirnyi are the world’s new No. 1 doubles players after rising to the summit of the ATP World Tour’s rankings on Monday. 

The Canadian-Belarusian pair supplanted Bob and Mike Bryan at the top, ending the 90-week hold the American twins possessed

By overcoming the second round hurdle at the Budapest Grand Prix in Hungary on Wednesday, Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, QC) has reached the quarter-finals of a WTA event for the first time since the Ponte Vedra Beach tournament in 2010. 

In the second round, Wozniak took on