Canada’s finest Masters tennis gamers descend on Toronto over the approaching week for the 2024 Steve Stevens Masters Tennis Championships, the top of Masters tennis within the Nice White North.
621 Canadians have entered the 2024 nationwide championships, outpacing the earlier yr by over 60 rivals. The occasion might be hosted at a number of golf equipment round Toronto together with the Granite Membership, the Boulevard Membership, Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Membership, Cottingham Tennis Membership, and the Donalda Membership.
The age vary for the Masters champions begins as little as 30+ with probably the most senior group being the 85+ division, the place there are 5 males who might be competing for the singles title. Every age group is a block of 5 years so 30+, 35+, 40+ all the way in which as much as 85+. The eldest group on the ladies’s facet is 80+, the place three ladies are entered within the singles occasion.
In whole, there are 12 age brackets for the lads and 11 for the ladies.
Every age group has each singles and doubles competitions apart from the 85+ doubles for each genders, ladies’s 85+ singles, and girls’s 35+ and 80+ doubles, the place there have been no entries.
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A lot of the occasions on the nationwide championships are customary elimination brackets. Nevertheless, there are 4 occasions which are a special format because of the low variety of entries. The ladies’s 35+ and the lads’s 85+ singles occasions are outright spherical robins, whereas the ladies’s 30+ and 80+ singles can have a qualifying spherical robin earlier than a knockout spherical.
The most important occasion on the Masters Nationals is the lads’s 55+ singles, the place there are 56 rivals. On the ladies’s facet, the 60+ singles occasion can have 36 gamers within the draw.
Play will get underway on Sunday, Aug. 25 and can run till Saturday, Aug. 31.
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