NBO Montreal did best it could with tennis schedule amid rainy weather, says former director
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For the first time in 21 years, Eugene Lapierre took in the National Bank Open in Montreal from the sidelines.
The longtime tournament director wasn’t envious of the scheduling headache his successor, Valerie Tetreault, faced last week as rainy weather affected nearly every day of the tournament.
“I was kind of relaxed but I was feeling for my team,” Lapierre, who remains a consultant with Tennis Canada, told The Canadian Press on Monday. “It was a very terrible first week of events for my successor, but I think they handled everything as best as we could in the circumstances.”
Because of the weather, Liudmila Samsonova of Russia was forced to play twice on Sunday, looking noticeably fatigued in the second match — a 6-1, 6-0 women’s singles final loss to well-rested American Jessica Pegula that lasted a mere 49 minutes.
Samsonova’s semifinal was originally scheduled for Saturday evening but got pushed to Sunday, while Pegula managed to beat the rain by playing in the first semifinal Saturday afternoon.
The Russian had just over two hours between her one-hour 43-minute win against Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, which began around 1:30 p.m., and the 5:30 p.m. final.
After the loss, Samsonova said she would have liked more time between matches, “but they said it’s not possible.”
Samsonova had already played twice on Friday and believed the organizers should have found a way to avoid having her play twice in one day again.
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