Rob Shaw ought to be arriving on the 2024 Summer season Paralympics in Paris for the wheelchair tennis occasion filled with confidence after a pair of titles on clay in July. In actual fact, he’ll arrive at Roland-Garros on an eight-match profitable streak in singles.
He adopted up his victory on the Berlin Open in July with the largest singles title of his profession on the Swiss Open in Geneva, an ITF 1 Sequence occasion.
Seeded third, Shaw didn’t drop a set on his strategy to the ultimate the place he defeated Fransico Cayulef of Chile in three units to win his twenty fourth profession ITF singles title.
“It’s been virtually 10 years, however I’ve lastly gained an ITF1 Match. I can not thank my assist group sufficient for retaining me game-ready for the previous two weeks,” stated Shaw after his victory in Geneva. “I used to be very accustomed to my opponent in the present day as we performed one another final week within the finals. This week I believed greater than every other match; I lastly performed nearer to my potential. There have been moments the place I bought too pushy, however I corrected issues within the third set and saved my foot on the gasoline. It’s been an unimaginable run in Switzerland and a match I will always remember.”
Shaw additionally gained the doubles in Geneva, though he and David Wagner solely needed to win their semifinal match as that they had a first-round bye and bought a walkover within the remaining. It was Shaw’s fifth ITF doubles title of the season and twenty eighth total.
He now heads to Paris for the Paralympics, the place he would be the lone Canadian competing within the wheelchair tennis occasion, which will get underway on Aug. 30.
Successful within the Northwest
Becoming a member of Shaw within the ITF winner’s circle exterior of Canada during the last month was Natalia Lanucha, who gained the ladies’s singles title at an ITF occasion in Salem, Oregon, her second singles title of 2024.
The ladies’s singles occasion was a five-player spherical robin. Lanucha completed 4-0, solely dropping one set. Canada accounted for the highest two spots within the girls’s singles, with Anne-Marie Dolinar ending second. Her lone loss was to Lanucha.
Saint-Hyacinthe
The primary of two stops on the ITF wheelchair tour in Canada during the last month got here in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec on the finish of July.
Canada’s Thomas Venos cleaned up on the occasion, profitable the singles and doubles titles. He was the highest seed in each and didn’t drop a set in both draw.
In singles, he solely misplaced a number of video games in a set twice in 4 matches and half of his units have been bagels. He had a double-bagel win within the semifinals in opposition to American Bryce Doody after which beat one other American, Jason Keatseangsilp, 6-1, 6-3 within the remaining for his second ITF singles title of the 12 months.
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Keatseangsilp beat Canadian Barry Henderson within the semifinals.
Venos teamed up with Keatseangsilp to win the doubles title, the BC native’s sixth of 2024, dropping simply 5 whole video games within the occasion and profitable three units 6-0. They defeated the all-Canadian group of Shawn Courchesne and Henderson within the remaining 6-1, 6-2.
Fabio Freitas of Brazil gained the quad singles. It was a four-person spherical robin occasion with Canada’s Hisham Mohammad and Erduan Solak coming third and fourth respectively. There have been no girls’s occasions in Saint-Hyacinthe.
Windsor
Within the first week of August, it was Windsor, Ontario’s flip to host a males’s ITF wheelchair occasion.
As soon as once more, Venos had the perfect outcomes among the many Canadians, though this time he was unable to choose up a title. The 25-year-old reached the singles remaining however misplaced to top-seeded American Conner Stroud.
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Doubles was a three-team spherical robin, gained by Stroud and Keatseangsilp. Venos partnered with fellow Canadian Patrick Levis and completed second. They beat the opposite all-American group of Adil Boutahli and Atif Moon however misplaced the de facto remaining in opposition to Stroud and Keatseangsilp.
