Masters Replace: Canadians Clear Up in Calgary

The ITF Masters tour fingers out extra trophies than every other tour and thus far a couple of have ended up in Canadian fingers, together with a complete bunch at dwelling in Calgary. 

March was additionally a very robust month, because the Canadians struck gold on the ITF World Championships. 

Let’s meet up with Canada’s most skilled tennis gamers competing on the ITF Masters Tour. 

MT Calgary 

Calgary performed host to the primary ITF Masters occasion of the 12 months on Canadian soil on the Yonex Calgary ITF Masters Championship from Feb. 16 to 19. 

There have been fifteen attracts being contested on the occasion divided by age, gender, and self-discipline. All however one was received by a Canadian, that being the 30+ plus males’s singles. Two of the lads’s doubles attracts noticed a Canadian win with a international accomplice. 

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Three Canadians have been victorious in each singles and doubles of their age teams: Lan Yao-Gallop (girls’s 40+), Scott Gerrity (males’s 60+), and Brenda Brown (girls’s 60+).

Right here is the complete record of winners (all Canadian until in any other case famous): 

The following Canadian occasion on the ITF Masters Tour is going down the primary week of April in Vancouver, the MT700 Vanlawn Open. 

ITF World Championships 

Group Canada noticed success in the course of the ITF Group and Particular person World Championships final month in Antalya, Turkey. 

Within the staff occasion, Canada’s M75 squad claimed the gold medal, defeating Italy within the closing. The Canadians additionally picked up a silver medal within the M70 occasion. 

Every week later within the particular person championships, Canada’s Chris Burr and Tim Griffin, who have been part of the gold-medal successful staff the week prior, took dwelling gold within the males’s 75+ doubles occasion. Griffin additionally received silver within the singles. 

ITF Tour 

Thus far in 2024, three Canadians have received titles on the ITF Masters Tour. 

George Virch is the lone Canadian to have received a singles title, rising victorious on the MT400 occasion in Malaga, Spain. The highest-seeded Canadian solely dropped one set, that being the primary set of the ultimate in a tiebreak, on his option to the title. 

It was the third ITF Masters singles title of Virch’s profession and first since 2018. 

Vandan Mehta has claimed two titles thus far in 2024, placing twice in two totally different age classes on the MT100 occasion in Vadodara, India. 

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Mehta received the 30+ doubles occasion with native Ajay Sodhatar, successful three of the 4 units they performed 6-0 and dropping simply three whole video games within the match. He teamed up with one other Mehta, Darshan Mehta of India, to win the 35+ doubles, solely needing to contest one match after getting a bye after which a walkover within the semis. 

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Again in January in Mexico, Canada’s Stephen Taylor teamed up with native Armando Trigo Tapia to win the 60+ males’s doubles title, edging out an all-Mexican pair 11-9 within the match tiebreaker within the closing. 

Right here is the complete record of Canadians who’ve reached finals on the ITF Tour (excluding Calgary) thus far in 2024 (Titles in daring):   

Vandan Mehta: MT100 Vadodara 30+ Doubles Champion, MT100 Vadodara 35+ Doubles Champion  

George Virch: MT400 Malaga 45+ Singles Champion 

Stephen Taylor: MT100 Cuernavaca, Morelos 60+ Doubles Champion 

Camille Vautour: MT400 Malaga Doubles Runner-Up 

Flavio Grullero: MT400 Malaga 65+ Doubles Runner-Up 

Gilbert A. White: MT200 Antalya 55+ Doubles Runner-Up 

Chris Shay: MT200 Marbella 60+ Doubles Runner-Up 

Eunice Yi Kuen Ng: MT200 55+ Singles Runner-Up