Masters Update: Déjà-Vu in Vancouver

The ITF Masters Tour handed by way of Vancouver as soon as once more in Could and a variety of acquainted faces had been hoisting the trophies on the finish.  

Canada additionally had a few singles victories on the ITF tour during the last month. 

Let’s meet up with the Canadian tennis gamers competing on the ITF Masters Tour.    

ITF Vancouver 

For the second month in a row, the ITF Masters Tour made a cease in Vancouver for the BC Masters Provincials, an MT400 occasion. 

Numerous gamers who gained the title on the VLTBC Masters Indoor Tennis Championships in April claimed a second title in British Columbia’s largest metropolis. 

Chandril Sood of India, Glenn Richards, and Steven Yesowick, each Canadian, every gained males’s singles titles at both Vancouver events. Khristina Blajkevitch, Kristi Tremble, Elena Audy, and Cora Wills, all of Canada, did the identical on the ladies’s facet. 

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Two ladies’s doubles groups gained in each Vancouver occasions, however claimed the title in several divisions. Kateryna Filyus and Bronwyn Muirhead gained the 45+ on the first event however took house the 35+ within the latter. Andrea Stevens gained the 50+ in April and the 55+ final month, successful the doubles with totally different companions. 

The pairs of Kristi Tremble and Jennifer Tse and Branda Cameron and Cora Wills went back-to-back in Vancouver in the identical divisions.  

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Three Canadian males, Manuel Calvo, Hannes Blum, and David Fairbotham gained each Vancouver occasions however with totally different companions. The Soods, Chandril and Lakshit, gained the 30+ doubles at each, whereas John Harvey and Steven Yesowick took house each 70+ doubles trophies. 

On the more moderen Vancouver occasion, Chandril Sood, Blajkevitch, Tremble, Robert Bettauer, and Yesowick all gained each the singles and doubles of their age divisions.  

Sheria Stewart and Janice Holloway had been the one two gamers to win titles in several age teams, each claiming a pair of doubles crowns. 

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

The subsequent ITF Masters cease in Canada can be in early June in Mont Tremblant, QC. Later within the month, the tour will cross by way of Winnipeg. 

Massive Month for Wong 

Within the month of Could, Da Hong Wong of Canada reached an astounding 4 finals.  

Three of these finals got here in doubles, however his one victory was his lone singles last the place he claimed the MT100 title in Shijiazhuang, China. Hong didn’t drop a set on his strategy to his first ITF singles title.  

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Gerald Girdler was the opposite Canadian singles winner in Could, selecting up an MT100 title on the lawns of Oxford, UK within the 65+ division. It was his first ITF title since 2019. All three of his profession titles have come on grass. 

Here’s a listing of Canadians who reached finals on the ITF Tour (excluding Vancouver) in Could (Titles in daring):       

• Da Hong Wong: MT100 Shijiazhuang 55+ males’s singles champion, MT100 Ganzhou 55+ males’s doubles runner-up, MT400 Pattaya 55+ males’s doubles runner-up, MT400 Pattaya 50+ males’s doubles runner-up 
• Gerald Girdler MT100 Oxford 65+ males’s singles champion 
• Jeanette Loakman: MT200 Canterbury 55+ ladies’s doubles runner-up 
• Mark Thompson MT400 Jackson 65+ males’s doubles runner-up