Rebecca Marino (Bing Images)
There are no more Canadians left in the singles’ draws at the 2010 U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York.
But that’s not to say there wasn’t any impressive performances by Canadian tennis players this week.
On the contrary.
Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino and Thornhill, Ontario’s Peter Polansky both advanced to round two of the tennis season’s final grand slam and both have impressive tennis futures.
Marino, 19, defeated Russian Ksenia Pervak 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, before losing to American superstar Venus Williams in straight sets yesterday. She has a lot of power to her game, something very important for any female tennis player today, and looks extremely more impressive than when Alexandra Wozniak was 19 three years ago.
Ironically, Marino has great athletic genes as well. Her uncle, George Hungerford, won gold at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo with Dr. Roger Jackson, in the rowing pairs competition.
Polansky, meanwhile, won his first Grand Slam event and became the first Canadian to win a U.S. Open match since Daniel Nestor in 2000, on Tuesday when he defeated clay court specialist Juan Monaco of Argentina, the 30th seed, 6-2, 7-6, 6-3. Then today, he defeated American James Blake 7-6 in a first set tie break, before losing the next three sets.
Canadian tennis fans haven’t had this much to celebrate in singles’ action at the U.S. Open for a while. Let’s just hope we haven’t heard the last of Rebecca Marino and Peter Polansky.
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