Peter Polansky Wins Granby Tennis Title

GRANBY – Peter Polansky has been successful at ATP National Bank Challenger over the years, but he reached a new height on Sunday when he defeated Ugo Humbert of France 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 to win the $ 100,000 event for the first time.

Polansky won the doubles He won the singles title in his previous appearances last year when he lost to Sloveniab Blaz Kavcic in the final.

The 30-year-old Toronto player atked a defeat against Humbert in the quarterfinals of an ATP Challenger last week in Gatineau. That match offered three sets of tiebreakers, Humbert, 20, having won 6-7, 7-6, 7-6.

"(Humbert) took part in his match in the second set and showed when he could do," Polansky said. "When he broke me for the second time in the set, I knew that the set was over and I focused on preparing the third set.I was able to break it early (for a 3-1 lead) but then I think I was 15-40 in the next game and I had to endure it. "

Polansky might have been put back a break when he was serving at 30- 40. It seemed that his second serve was long but the line judge ruled that the service was good and Polansky continued to win the game to lead 4-1.

Polansky fought all week with his first serve and put only 48 percent Polansky, who beat Davis Davis captain Frank Dancevic of La Prairie Saturday in the semifinal, won $ 14,400 US for victory. . His next stop is an ATP Tour tournament in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, followed by the Rogers Cup in Toronto.

Julia Glushko, of Israel, won the ITF Women's Challenger at $ 60,000 by beating Arina Rodionova, of Australia, seeded number 6- 3, 6-4

"I am so happy because it's been a long time since I won a $ 60,000 tournament, "Glushko said. "I have been coming to Granby for years and have always loved playing here, but my best performance here was the semi-finals a few years ago."

Glushko had fun playing in the Fast here and said his goal was to keep Rodionova out of balance by playing an aggressive game.

Glushko, who was born in Ukraine, won $ 9,119 for the win. She had an easy run to the finals because her semifinal opponent, Bianca Andreescu, 17, of Mississauga, was missing with a bad back. Andreescu had a wild card in a WTA tournament in Washington but she retired from the tournament. She is also in the running for a wild card for the Rogers Cup women's event which will start next weekend in Montreal. The tournament officials hope that a week of rest and treatment will allow him to play.

In the other semifinal, Rodionova had no trouble beating Katherine Sebov of Toronto 6-2, 6-0. Sebov will be competing in the Rogers Cup qualifier next weekend.

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