Masters Update: Double Delight for Oleksiuk and White

In April on the ITF Masters Tour, Robert Oleksiuk and Gilbert A. White led the best way for the Canadians by each scoring a number of titles throughout the ocean. 

In the meantime again residence, the host nation defended its territory nicely at an ITF occasion on the west coast.  

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

ITF Vancouver 

The ITF Masters Tour handed by way of Canada for the second time in 2024, stopping by Vancouver for the forty fifth annual VLTBC Masters Indoor Tennis Championships. The host nation was nicely represented, getting no less than one hand on 35 of the 38 winners trophies handed out on the MT700 occasion. 

Eight Canadians received each the singles and doubles titles of their respective age teams, as did Chandril Sood of India within the males’s 30+.  

Two Canadians, Leslie Van Santen (age 60) and Manuel Calvo (age 48) managed to win doubles titles in two totally different ages teams. Van Santen received the ladies’s doubles in each the 55+ and 60+ divisions, whereas Calvo took residence the boys’s doubles within the 40+ and 45+ attracts. 

Learn additionally: Bianca Fernandez Climbing Up the NCAA Rankings

All however two of the 20 singles titles have been received by Canadians. Three Canadians received doubles titles with international companions, with two all-foreign pairs profitable doubles crowns.  

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

There aren’t any ITF Masters occasions in Canada in Might. 

ITF Tour Wins for Oleksiuk and White

Robert Oleksiuk was the lone Canadian to win each a singles and doubles title overseas within the month of April on the ITF Tour. 

On the first of the back-to-back MT400 occasions in Barcelona, Oleksiuk reached the 45+ singles closing however misplaced Sergio Sesa Priego of Spain in straight units.  

Learn additionally: Erin Routliffe Rising to the Top

Per week later, the Canadian doubled up, profitable each the singles and doubles titles. Within the singles, he didn’t drop a set and beat prime seed Jose Rodrigo Vega for his second ITF singles title.  

Within the doubles, Oleksiuk and his Italian accomplice Paolo Conti had a simple street to the title, getting a bye after which a walkover to achieve the ultimate with out having to hit a ball. They then dropped simply 5 video games within the title match. It’s the sixth ITF doubles title for Oleksiuk. 

Learn additionally: Auger-Aliassime Making Strides in Madrid

Gilbert A. White was additionally a multi-titlist in April, bringing residence a pair ITF doubles titles on the Masters Tour. 

He began out the month by profitable the doubles title on the MT400 in Sorgun, Turkey alongside his Romanian accomplice Gelu Gheti. White and Gheti have been the highest seeds within the 65+ males’s doubles draw and dropped simply seven video games on their option to the title. 

The next week, White teamed up with countryman Marc Pepin to win the 65+ doubles title in Manavgat, Turkey, edging an all-Polish workforce 10-8 within the match tiebreak within the closing to deliver his complete titles in 2024 to 4. 

Learn additionally: Kai Schrameyer Sets the Bar High for Wheelchair Athletes

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

• Robert Oleksiuk: MT400 Barcelona (2) males’s singles champion, MT400 Barcelona (2) 45+ males’s doubles champion, MT400 (1) Barcelona 45+ males’s singles runner-up, 
• Gilbert A White: MT400 65+ Sorgun males’s doubles champion, MT1000 Manavgat 65+ males’s doubles champion (w/ Pepin) 
• Marc Pepin: MT1000 Manavgat 65+ males’s doubles champion (w/ White) 
• Gerald Girdler: MT400 Valencia 65+ males’s doubles runner-up, MT200 Valencia 60+ males’s doubles runner-up