Very like the ATP and WTA tennis calendar, the Wheelchair tennis season is wrapping up its 2024 marketing campaign with few tournaments remaining on the schedule.
Canada’s top-ranked competitor, Rob Shaw, concluded his marketing campaign in Arnhem, Netherlands on the NEC Wheelchair Singles Masters. In the meantime, Montreal is ready to host one closing Canadian occasion on the finish of this month.
Shaw falls in Masters Group Stage
Whereas Rob Shaw did nicely to earn a spot on the end-of-year championships, he was coping with an damage and easily overmatched by the easiest gamers on the planet in Arnhem final week.
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Shaw completed 0-3 in round-robin play and didn’t advance previous the group stage.
Regardless of this early exit, 2024 was a standout season for Shaw. The 34-year-old B.C. native claimed seven ITF titles, together with two in singles and 5 in doubles. His greatest victory of the 12 months got here in Geneva on the Swiss Open, the place he captured the primary ITF Sequence 1 title of his profession. Shaw additionally represented Canada on the Paralympic Video games in Paris, reaching the quarter-finals in singles.
Montreal
There’s one closing occasion on the Canadian wheelchair tennis calendar in 2024, the Bourassa Savaria Worldwide Open in Montreal.
The hard-court match will function males’s and ladies’s singles, doubles, boys singles, and a quad division.
Motion will happen from November 28 to December 1 at IGA Stadium.
Rankings Replace
With the Wheelchair tennis season formally winding down, Rob Shaw once more completed because the top-ranked Canadian and is only one spot off his career-high, ending as world No. 7 within the quad division.
B.C.’s Thomas Venos loved a terrific 2024 marketing campaign and is as much as a career-high rating of fiftieth in singles and is ranked forty third in doubles.
18-year-old Frédérique Bérubé-Perron additionally loved a breakout season and heads into season’s finish ranked 66th in singles.
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