Who else would bring in the first Canadian wheelchair tennis results of 2025 but Rob Shaw.
The veteran wheelchair tennis player wasted no time in turning the page to start the new year after injuries hampered him in the final months of 2024. Three tournaments into the new season and already Shaw has a pair of finals on his record.
Here is the monthly wheelchair tennis update.
Shaw kicked off his season down under with a trio of events in Melbourne, Australia. He posted identical results in the first two events, winning his opening match before losing in the quarter-finals of the quad singles and reaching the doubles final.
In both doubles draws, he played alongside local Heath Davidson, with whom Shaw won four titles in 2024. The pair will have to wait for their first of 2025, as they were defeated in both finals.
At the Australian Open, the draw gods were not kind to Shaw as he drew world No. 2 Niels Vink, who also beat him in the second ITF Melbourne quarter-final, in the first round of the quad singles. Vink beat the Canadian in straight sets.
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In quad doubles, Shaw and Davidson reached the semifinals for the second year in a row at Melbourne Park but once again fell in the final four. They were beaten by the eventual champions Andy Lapthorne and Sam Schroder.
The only other Canadian to have competed so far this year in an ITF Wheelchair event is Mitch McIntyre, who kicked off his season earlier in February at an ITF3 event in Bolton, United Kingdom.
McIntyre lost in the quarter-finals of the quad singles to Andrew Bogdanov but went on to win the consolation draw with a pair of straight-set wins. He and Bogdanov reached the quad doubles final but lost to Gregory Slade and David Wagner. The Canadian is competing at a second ITF event in Bolton this week.
