Masters Update: Canadians Clean Up in Calgary

The ITF Masters tour palms out extra trophies than some other tour and up to now a couple of have ended up in Canadian palms, together with a complete bunch at residence in Calgary. 

March was additionally a very sturdy 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 yr 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 boys’s doubles attracts noticed a Canadian win with a international companion. 

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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 subsequent Canadian occasion on the ITF Masters Tour is happening the primary week of April in Vancouver, the MT700 Vanlawn Open. 

ITF World Championships 

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

Within the crew occasion, Canada’s M75 squad claimed the gold medal, defeating Italy within the last. 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 crew the week prior, took home gold in the men’s 75+ doubles event. Griffin additionally received silver within the singles. 

ITF Tour 

Up to now 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 method 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 up to now in 2024, putting twice in two completely 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 complete 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 last. 

Right here is the complete record of Canadians who’ve reached finals on the ITF Tour (excluding Calgary) up to now 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