tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39846141752224901682024-03-05T18:27:07.346-08:00Ontario Tennis MagazineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-71006548843870562312016-06-18T06:29:00.000-07:002016-06-18T06:29:03.493-07:00SENIOR TENNIS PLAYERS - HAVE RACQUET WILL TRAVEL<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ONTARIO SENIOR TENNIS PLAYERS - HAVE RACQUET WILL TRAVEL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several Ontario players were in Umag, Croatia recently competing in the ITF Young Seniors World Team Championships.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Young Cup (over 40) team of Ontarians Jennifer Bishop, Maureen Drake and Paula Myslivecek, who grew up in Ontario but now lives in Florida, are seen here (right to left). They beat the USA team on the final day of competition to take 5th spot overall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other Ontario players who played in Croatia were</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucie Lean (Margaret Court Cup over 45), Leigh Bradwell, Liane Marr (Suzanne Lenglen Cup over 35)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dave Rowat (Italia Cup over 35) Ben Woo (Tony Trabert Cup over 40)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the over 45 Mens Singles Nels Stanfield was the Finalist with Dan Deangelis and Ivan Balic reaching the semi finals. Dan and Ivan played in the doubles together again reaching the semi-finals. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Over 50s, Imran Syed was a semi-finalist in singles, won the mixed doubles (with Karen Clarke), and was a finalist in the men's doubles (with Donald
Bruce Acland). In the mens Over 60 Singles Steve Fricker was a semi-finalist. Adrian Grice placed 2 in the over 80 men's singles and was also a semi-finalist in th over 70 mixed with Ruth Grice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Over 50 women's singles Cindy O'Doherty and Sandy Mackie were semi-finalist; Cindy was a finalist in the mixed doubles (with Jeff Henkelman). Patricia Babcock was the finalist in the Over 60 singles. In the Over 65 events Maria Dinga was the singles finalist, and a double doubles champion with Violetta Nesukaitis in womens and Lucien Demarais of Quebec in mixed. Anne Rungi was the sole Ontarian to take a singles title. She won the Over 70 singles and was a finalist in both the ladies and the mixed doubles (with Louise Langston and Claude Savaria). Anne Rungi and Louise are pictured below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Ontario Federation of Secondary Schools Athletic Association held their finals on May 30th, 31st and June 1st at the University of Toronto Scarborough Tennis Centre and Mayfair Racquet Club East.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Competition is held at two levels. The Open level is for players who compete in tennis competition on a regular basis outside of the school program and have a high OTA ranking. The High School Level is for players who play at a recreational level.</span><br />
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Singles, Open Boys Singles, and Open Girls Singles Finals. These matches were televised on Sunday June 5th between 2 and 5 pm in Toronto. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Pictured here L to R are </span><span class="hascaption" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129;">Spencer Robertson, Cindy Phair (Coach) and </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009276257167" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #365899;">Michael Orrett</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129;"> who took the 4th place in High School </span></span><span class="hascaption"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Boys Doubles. Thanks to Todd Orrett for the photo.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #90949c;"> Other photos of the event can be found on the OFSAA Facebook page.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The winning players and teams were:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">GOLD: Carr Norton (CISAA) - Upper Canada College, </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER: Georg Zoidl (YRAA) - St. Maximillian Kolbe, </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE: Keenan Conlon (CISAA)- Upper Canada College, </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE BRONZE: Bryn Hafer (ROPSSAA) - Lorne Park S.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">GOLD: Matt Gibson/Victor Guziak (WOSSA) - London Central,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER: John Fischer/Luke Fischer (WOSSA) - Stratford Central,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE: Jordan Welter/Sam Finkelstein (TDSSAA) - Lawrence Park,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE BRONZE: Spencer Robertson/Michael Orrett (LOSSA) - Henry
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Park S.S., </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER: Zante Botha/Charee Botha
(WOSSA) - Mother Teresa CSS, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE: Catherine Rastin/Clara Rastin (SWOSSAA) - St. Patrick's, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE BRONZE: Sasha Malesevic/Ivana Milisic (CWOSSA) -
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">GOLD: Meg Killeen/ Lachlan Carmichael (TDSSAA) -Lawrence Park, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER: Madeleine Swenor/Bryn de Chastelain (GHAC) - Georgetown District
HS, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE: Alyssia Watkin/John Karakas (CISAA) - Appleby College, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE BRONZE: Yigit Gedikli/Rachel Mendelson (TDSSAA) - Forest Hill.</span></div>
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Jakob Nielsen (CISAA) - Appleby College, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER:
Peter Coombs (GHAC) - Oakville Trafalgar HS, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE:
Nathan Wong (GHAC) - White Oaks Secondary School, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE
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Rebecca Herrington (GBSSA) - Banting Memorial H.S., </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER:
Mya Bui (LOSSA) - Pickering High School, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE:
Victoria DiMuzio (CWOSSA) - Bishop MacDonell H.S., </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE
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Roy Stepanov/ Malik Bhatnagar (GHAC) - Robert Bateman, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER:
DJ Fenerty/ Shane Bulitka (WOSSA) - St. Andre Bessette, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE:
Brooks Coffey/ Alp Tezol (TDSSAA) - North Toronto, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE
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Alexandra Mikhailuk/ Angela Chen (GHAC) - Nelson High School, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER:
Stephanie Afloroaei/ Alicia Opatowski (LOSSA) - Dunbarton High School, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE:
Sofia Miller/ Rita Kanaeva (TDSSAA) - Malvern, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">ANTIQUE
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Rita Colyer/ Luke Smrek (GHAC) - Robert Bateman, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">SILVER:
Marko Kazar/ Elizabeth Rozin (TDSSAA) - Lawrence Park, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">BRONZE:
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-4152373132343055692016-06-18T06:28:00.002-07:002016-06-18T06:28:48.794-07:00NATIONAL SELECTION PROCESS<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NATIONAL SELECTION TOURNAMENTS</span><br />
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points through these tournaments. There are 2 indoor and 2 outdoor designated national selection
events (4 star) offered for each category at a 4 star value. At National
Selection events the top 16 players will receive direct entry with another 16 spots being available for qualifiers. Players will receive ranking points for qualifying/feed up events and consolation. Consistent with the rest of the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Singles Winner: Ilya Tirapolsky, Finalist: Joshua Lapadat, Semi-finalists: Marko Stakusic, Alvin
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-8970480597579724452016-06-18T06:28:00.001-07:002016-06-18T06:28:40.506-07:00INTERNATIONAL CLUB GOES TO NEW YORK<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">INTERNATIONAL CLUB GOES TO NEW YORK</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the International Lawn Tennis Club of Canada team travels to New York, bringing home the hardware isn't at the top of their agenda, instead it is to get to play on the beautiful grass courts at Piping Rock Country Club. Of course Piping Rock has clay courts in case the grass is unplayable, and given that the Friday afternoon brought light drizzle, these courts were the only ones available for practice. Saturday however brought a picture perfect day for playing matches on the grass and enjoying the beautiful surroundings. Sunday the rain set in and the morning matches were played at the huge Port Washington indoor facility. Any weather problems were made up for with the wonderful hospitality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the first time in several years that an open men's team traveled to New York and the women's team was the largest and the youngest average age Canada has fielded in New York, thanks to some young new members. Pictured here Back row L to R Dale Kozicz (Captain), Sue Smylie, Janice Hebert, Julie Salomon, Laura Randmaa Atkinson, Jane Seed. Front Row: Kanta Murali, Susanna Sekely, Kathy Mueller and guest/local resident Junko Matsushita.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The senior men's team are pictured in their club house clothes. L to R. John Payne, Tim Griffin, Owen Pellew, Bob Awrey, Terry Redvers, Dennis Ing, Raj Nagendra, Ivan Petrov and Rosti Brankovsky (Captain). The USA team retained the Baker Bowl, also by a score of 10 matches to 5. Unfortunately Canada was 0 for 4 in super tiebreakers otherwise the result might have been different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Canadian Open Men's team took a 5-4 lead after Saturdays matches, but failed to take any of the Sunday matches, giving the USA another 10-5 win to take the Sorlein Cup. Could it have been too much sun on the Saturday or too much hospitality on Saturday night that caused their collapse? The Open team members were Jamie Weatherall, Robert Janacek, Jeremy Langer, Eric Vehovec, Fil Marinkovic, Keenan O'Young, Adam Taylor and captain, Michael Stauble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always a great weekend! The Canadian IC are looking forward to hosting a full USIC team in Toronto next June. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-401704024760227472016-06-18T06:28:00.000-07:002016-06-18T06:28:28.849-07:00MILOS AND MCENROE <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MILOS and McENROE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the short grass season leading up to Wimbledon there has been a lot of interest in the decision made by Milos Raonic to add John McEnroe to his team as a coach on the grass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Milos's singles career has already broken so many records for a Canadian player, but there is one milestone or accomplishment that would outstrip them all - to win a Grand Slam Singles Championship. Now when you look at which Grand Slam is best suited to Milos's strengths you have to think it is Wimbledon, where there have been several champions who have relied on their height and their big serve as the main weapons in their arsenal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everybody loves Milos for his preppy good looks, his modesty, his all round nice guy demeanour. John McEnroe on the other hand is almost the antithesis of Milos. He gained a reputation for being a mouthy brat and, if he hadn't been such a talented and intuitive player, he would probably have been forgotten. But the big question is can John McEnroe infuse Milos with the spark, the creativity, the intuition and the magic he needs to reach that next level and win Wimbledon?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.tenniscanada.com/">tenniscanada.com</a> web site is doing a great job of following this exciting story. Milos has passed the first hurdle, he beat his recent nemesis, Kyrgios, in the first round of the Queens Club tournament. We thought you'd like to follow our local hero as he tries to make history on those green and pleasant courts. </span><br />
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the Ontario Tennis Association was held at Aviva Centre, Toronto on Saturday
April 9<sup>th</sup>. More than hundred representatives of over 50 clubs were
present for the meeting. In 2015 the OTA
had excellent results in several areas. Rob Nicholls, VP, Finance &
Administration, showed how each source of revenue had grown at roughly the same
rate over the past 5 years and expenditures in all program areas had grown
proportionally. The association had ended the year almost break even but with a
small positive net balance of income over expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ontario junior players had
captured most of the outdoor national championship titles and two Ontario
junior players, Bianca Andreescu (age 15, ITF junior rank #3) and Denis
Shapovalov (age 16) are producing incredible results internationally for their
age in the world junior and for Denis, in the ATP rankings. See separate
article on Denis’ recent successes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jim Boyce outlined a new
program launched in 2015, the Freedom 50 program, coordinated by Rick Bertozzi,
to encourage mature adults to take up or return to tennis. Rick is looking to connect interested seniors
in all clubs as ambassadors for the sport and t work cooperatively with these
ambassadors to boost participation in this demographic. Jim also updated the
group on other key tennis promotional projects and on the work of a committee
set up to develop an OTA training centre.
With the increased interest in tennis, the Aviva centre reaching
capacity and with the prospect that the number of commercially operated tennis facilities
is unlikely to grow, the OTA is looking at developing an indoor tennis facility
which can be used for tennis player, coach, official and volunteer development
and be accessible and beneficial to the entire Ontario tennis community. The top priority for the committee is to
identify a viable site for such a centre. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jim also noted that the OTA
will be celebrating its 100<sup>th</sup> birthday in 2018 and plans are already
underway to ensure this milestone is celebrated in style. Watch this space for
your opportunity to get involved!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the formal meetings
presentations were made to Al McGuire, for his contribution to the association
as Chair of Tennis Toronto and participation on the Board and OTA Club
Excallence Awards were made to representatives of three clubs, Barrie (see
photo), Leaside and Thunder Bay for their excellent efforts to build and
support tennis in 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After lunch breakout sessions
were held for clubs to discuss issues of mutual interest and there was the
opportunity for prepared participants to take time on the courts with OTA’s
outreach staff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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OTA staff for organizing such an efficient AGM and also to the OTA sponsors who
came to the meeting to keep Club Presidents well informed of the opportunities
they offer. It is a great opportunity for volunteers to meet and share
interests and concerns and for the membership to get lots of information about
the association and what it accomplishes.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-90877047274590458152016-04-13T20:25:00.002-07:002016-04-13T20:25:14.589-07:00DENIS WINS ANOTHER FUTURES EVENT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sixteen-year-old Denis
Shapovalov of Toronto captured the second pro singles title of his career on April 10<sup>th</sup>
by winning the $25K Memphis Futures tournament in Memphis,Tennessee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">A qualifier, Shapovalov had to
win two matches in qualifying before reaching the first round of the main draw.
He then proceeded to beat three seeded players as he made his way to taking the
title. In the final, he faced the
American, Tennys Sandgrenm the number 2 seed with a world ranking more than 200
spots ahead of Denis. This was a hard court event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In January Shapovalov won his first
professional singles event, an ITF $10K
Futures tournament played on clay in Weston, Florida. (See photo here with his coach Adriano Fuorivia), Here he also had to play matches
to qualify before working his way through a tough to take the title in straight
sets over Pedro Sakamoto.In March he reached the semi-finals of the $50,000 Challenger
Banque Nationale de Drummondville, where he lost in three sets to Daniel Evans
of Great Britain. With this result he became the first player born in 1999 to
win an ATP challenger match.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Spring issue of Ontario
Tennis Magazine includes an interview with Denis or Shap as those who know him
refer to him. To see this article go to <a href="http://digital.lmgroup.com/i/664024-ontario-tennis-2016-2017-spring-2016/12">Ontario Tennis Spring 2016 Shap Attack</a><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-45707520109963841342016-04-13T20:25:00.001-07:002016-04-13T20:25:08.127-07:00JUNIOR INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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March break at 5 sites around the province.
Thanks go to the staff and volunteers at ACE in Burlington, Ontario
Racquet Club in Mississauga, Parkside Tennis Club, Windsor, Ottawa Athletic
Club and The Club at Whiteoaks, Niagara on the Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Singles: Jessica Louisa Alsola, Marina Stakusic, Cadence
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Singles: Stefan Simeunovic (Niagara), Spencer Keung, Adrian
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Singles: Rachel Krzyzak, Rachel Hanford, Corina Spasojevic,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Singles: Joshua Lapadat, Ilya Tirapolsky, Trevor Masi,
Christopher Heck, Alvin Nicholas Tudorica, Marko Stakusic.</span></div>
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youngsters went to Indoor Nationals and placed well. Some of their results are listed here.</span></div>
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finalists: Sarah Lui & Victoria Mboko Dasha also placed 3 in singles.</span></div>
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Nicholas Tudorica. Doubles champions: Joshua and Alvin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">U 16 Girls Singles Champion: Ariana Arseneault, 3<sup>rd</sup> “ Alisia Stephanie Manolescu .
Doubles Champions Ariana and Jada Bui
(see photo), finalist:Rachel Krzyzak (& Elodie Petrecca of Quebec) </span></div>
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Sengphrachanh, 4<sup>th</sup> : Ines Milosevic. Doubles champion: Isabelle
Boulais (with Kirsten Prelle of Alberta).</span></div>
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John Long was thrilled that so many members old and new came out to celebrate 20 years of Ajax Winter Tennis Club. John is pictured here with Mary Barlow and Marlene Tremblay, just two of the many people who came to watch while others took to the courts for a clinic or to try to win prizes by hitting ball cans strategically placed around the tennis court - an exercise that proved quite difficult even though there were a lot of targets and prizes. <br />
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After the tennis there was plenty of food and a cake for everyone to enjoy.<br />
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John has written an article on the history of the club which can be found in the Spring Issue of Ontario Tennis. To go to this article follow the link here.<a href="http://digital.lmgroup.com/i/664024-ontario-tennis-2016-2017-spring-2016/20">Ontario Tennis Spring 2016 AWT</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-56660528182309602052016-01-21T19:30:00.001-08:002016-01-21T19:30:11.509-08:00CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The OTA and Tennis Canada are mourning the loss of two volunteers who made huge contributions to the sport of tennis in Ontario and Canada, Gus Morhart and Steve Stevens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In our last SPIN monthly we remembered Gus Morhart. Here are the details of his celebration of life.</span><br />
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a get-together and Celebration of Life for Gus Morhart </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt;">on</span></div>
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Grain restaurant (main floor) 87 Laird
Drive, East York, ON M4G 3T7 (647) 748-2840</span></div>
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welcome. So that Natasha has a good idea of the numbers please rsvp to Natasha at <a href="mailto:natashablaskovic@msn.com">natashablaskovic@msn.com</a> if you plan to attend. The restaurant can accommodate
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <b>“Celebration of Life”
for Steve Stevens</b> will take place <b>Thursday, February 11<sup>th</sup> at
7 pm at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club</b>, 44 Price St. in Toronto.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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memory about Steve, and have a drink, a snack, and a laugh, to help
celebrate the life of an individual that did so much for tennis and in
particular <b>Seniors</b> tennis in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tennis Canada lost a long time
member of its family on Thursday with the passing of Steve Stevens at the age
of 99. Steve was an immensely valuable part of the organization for over three
decades and his loss will leave an indelible hole in the entire Canadian tennis
community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steve revolutionized seniors’
tennis in Canada. His passion for the sport and growing the game was unmatched.
He led the growth of seniors’ tennis almost from ground zero, expanding
Canada’s representation at the world championships from one team to 20. Through
his time, Canada has been home to some of the best seniors players in the world
and now regularly achieves success at the world championships every year.
Canada’s annual outdoor national tournament was renamed in his honour in 2010
to the Steve Stevens Senior National Tennis Championships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Born in England in 1916, Steve
first became involved in tennis at a young age. He organized a church community
club and played socially in Germany and Switzerland. He moved to Brazil in 1951
and after some years without tennis, he took up the sport again in Sao Paulo in
1960 and was an integral part of the tennis community there, including as a
delegate of the Sao Paulo Tennis Federation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6d6e71;">After moving to Toronto in
October 1967, he shortly thereafter began his involvement with Canadian tennis.
He first became a representative for seniors’ tennis on the OTA tournament
committee in 1970 and his contribution only grew from there. He was the general
manager of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club from 1969 to 1982, OTA Board member
from 1978 to 1987, OTA president from 1982 to 1985 and has been part of Tennis
Canada since the early 90s.</span> <span style="color: #6d6e71;">In 2003 he was one of the inaugural
recipients of the OTA Distinguished Service Award because of his contributions
to tennis in Ontario.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His annual birthday celebrations
in the Tennis Canada offices were not-to-be-missed as Steve would regale the
staff with vibrant speeches. He loved bringing people together and organizing
parties, and was known for his speeches and ability to tell a tale. He would
regularly hold a crowd at every seniors’event.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up until recently, Steve was
still acting in his role of Seniors Tennis Coordinator. He celebrated his 99<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>birthday in November at the Toronto
Lawn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His fiery spark and kind spirit
will always be remembered. He will be truly and greatly missed by all in the
Canadian tennis community, and especially in the seniors’ community where he
was synonymous with the sport. He leaves behind a huge legacy, and it is thanks
to his vast dedication, passion, and guidance over the years that seniors’
tennis in Canada is in such a positive place today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sydney,
Australia obviously suits Daniel Nestor. It is the city in which he and Sébastien
Lareau won the Olympic doubles gold medal and it is also the place where Daniel
finally got his 1000<sup>th</sup> win on the ATP tour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To
reach this milestone Daniel and partner Marcelo Melo of Brazil managed a fairly
routine 6-4, 6-4 win over Leander Paes
of India and Jérémy Chardy of France in the APIA International Sydney
tournament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniel
had hoped to make than elusive win in 2015 but it wasn’t to be. Natasha
Daniel’s wife commented, "He was talking about 999 a lot – 'I’m the first
player to get to 999' – and he said 'it would be REALLY bad if I were to get
injured or even die at this number,' " <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took his wife and daughters to Australia so they could be present when he made
the magic number of wins. Daniel is the first player to reach this milestone.
The ATP tour web site has an interview with Daniel and his family which can be
seen at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniel
won his first doubles title in 1994 and her has won at least one title in every
year to reach a grand total of 88 ATP titles, 8 Grand Slam titles and Olympic
Gold. 2009 was his most prolific year in terms of titles. He won 9 that year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has also reached 57 finals in which he didn’t take the title.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Congratulations
Daniel – may you keep racking up the wins for the remainder of your
professional career!!</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a good start to the year for Canadian tennis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Raonic seemed in excellent form on the courts at Brisbane. And when it came to
the final he looked as if 2016 might just be the year that he will regain his
best form and nip at the heels of the top players. His supporters were not
disappointed as he defeated Roger Federer in straight sets (6-4, 6-4) in the
Brisbane International to rack up the 8<sup>th</sup> ATP World Tour Title of
his career. In 2015 Milos reached the
final of the Brisbane event and lost to Federer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hope this win will give Milos the confidence he will need to go deep into the
draw at the Australian Open which is now underway. Go Milos!</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-44939440288874922862016-01-21T19:29:00.004-08:002016-01-21T19:29:59.025-08:00GEORGE CARTER MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT<div style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 13.2pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">
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proud member of the ORC who played regularly at the club and still took lessons
until he was well into his 80s. His positive attitude and gentle nature made
him an inspiration to many players. George represented Canada in ITF senior world
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experience. Players play in round robin pools and if time permits, elimination
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Filoti in the elimination final. Evan Vanderstarren and Kristofer Todorov were
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the winner and 8 year old Stasia Laine Kryk was the finalist. Stasia is a
member of the AMA Tennis and Badminton Club in Amherstburg.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; font-weight: normal;">The first Senior ITF tournament of 2015 was the Wilson
Mayfair tournament held Jan 2 to 4 a great way for people to deliver on any new
year resolutions to get fitter or to play more tennis!</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">MD 55 Fraser Macdonald & Marc
Pepin, Sergey Borodulin & Rosti Brankovsky</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">MS 60 Sergey Borodulin, Steve
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">MS 65 Dennis Ing, Daryl
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">MD 65 James Boyce & Dennis
Ing, Don Anderson & Raul Hernandez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 35 Leigh Bradwell, Liane
Marr</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WD 35 Leigh Bradwell & Liane
Marr, Nancy Behm & Sandra Cimetta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 40 Nicole Wolfe, Julie
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 45 Jennifer Bishop, Patti
Thornicroft</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WD 45 Jennifer Bishop & Kelly
Stobbe, Susan Danac-Smith & Nancy Lin (see photo right to left)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 50 Cindy O’Doherty, Stephanie
Myles</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 55 Erin Boynton, Susanna
Sekely</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WD 55 Patricia Babcock &
Margaret Lansens Smeenk, Susanna Sekely & Janice Hebert</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 60 Patricia Babcock, Susan Bye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WS 65 Cathie Joyce, Rosemary
Antze</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The next Wilson Mayfair Senior
ITF tournament will be held Feb 12 to 15. Singles age categories 35
to 65 (5 year increments). Doubles for categories ending in “5” with sign up on
site. Singles entries close Jan 27<sup>th</sup>.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Don’t forget these other dates
for your calendar!</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Mar 16 - 20 Eastern Indoors
Nationals Super Senior Men (60 and up), Donalda Club, Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Apr 6-10 Eastern Indoor Nationals
Senior Women (all ages) Club Sportif Cote de Liesse, Montreal</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Apr 13-17 Eastern Indoor
Nationals Senior Men (O35 to O55) Club Sportif Cote de Liesse, Montreal</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Apr 27 – May1 Western Indoor
Nationals , Glencoe & Winter Club, Calgary</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Aug 21 -27 Steve Stevens Senior
Outdoor Nationals, Ottawa Lawn, Riseau and West Ottawa Clubs, Ottawa </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are two Open tournaments held each December over the
Christmas break. These tournaments are particularly popular as those players
who are away at university get a chance to catch up with one another while
still keeping their games in shape, and for the up and coming juniors it is a
chance for them to see hoe their skills match against those players who have
recently moved into the adult ranks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The $9000 ACE Circuit Canada Indoor Open Championships were
held Dec 19 to 24.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The men’s singles was won by Winston Lin of the USA, who
played fellow American, Marcus Fugate in the final. Malik Bhatnagar and Martin
Beran were the semifinalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The women’s singles was won by Maureen Drake, who is now
eligible to play seniors events but can still teach the youngsters a thing or
two in competition. Sandra Dynka was the
finalist and Charlotte Petrick and Katarina Kopcalic were semi-finalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Copacabana Open was held at White Oaks Resort in Niagara on the
Lake Dec 27<sup>th</sup> to 31<sup>st</sup>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the men’s singles another Lin, Jack Mingjie Lin, who is
still a junior beat out American and winner of the ACE event, Winston Lin, in
the final. Henry Choi and Martin Beran
were the semi-finalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The women’s singles was won by Isabelle Boulais, who beat
her doubles partner, Charlotte Petrick in the final. Isabelle is the daughter
of Yves Boulais and Patricia Hy-Boulais who are now working at Ontario Racquet Club in Mississauga. Petra
Januskova and Louise Kwong were the semi-finalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the men’s doubles, Martin Beran and Jesse Flores took the title
beating the American duo, Winston Lin and Marcus Fugate in the final. The teams
of Jack Mingjie Lin/Nicaise Muamba and Victor Krustev/Christian Lakoseljac were
semifinalists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The women’s doubles event was won by Isabelle Boulais and
Charlotte Petrick. Petra Januskova and
Maria Patrascu were finalists. While Sandra Dynka/Louise Kwong and Jade
Hilton/Savanna Ly made it through to the semi-finals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to Dr. Vijay Bhatnagar who sent us this photo of
Malik Bhatnagar with Vasek Pospisil in Florida in early December. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The OTA hosted the inaugural U10 TDC CUP on November 28 -
29th at the Aviva Centre. This event was
offered to provincial Tennis Development Centre’s across the province offering
an opportunity for clubs to enter a team of two boys and two girls born in
(2006, 2007). The event had a total of
12 teams with 4 players per squad for a total of 48 players. Judging by the smiles in this photo a good time was had by all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each team played one another in their round robin group,
playing a total of 3 teams during round robin preliminary play. All matches consisted of two girls’ singles
matches and one girls’ doubles match, two boys’ singles matches and one boys’
doubles match for a total of 6 matches.
Each match was timed at 40-minutes with no ad scoring on full court with
the green ball; players played as many games as possible in the 40 minutes;
each game won counted towards their teams total; thus, a team’s total score was
accumulated of the total games won from the six matches played. The round robin result’s during prelim
competition was determined by total games won per team. Teams were then reordered and placed in
championship/consolation flights based off their team result.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">1. Ontario Racquet Club. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">2. Toronto Tennis Academy (WC). </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">3. Waterloo. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">4. Toronto Tennis City. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">5. ACE - Burlington #1. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">6. ATI (Veneto). </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">7. ACE - Burlington #2. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">8. Mayfair. 9</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">. Toronto Lawn. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">10. NYTA. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">11. Niagara Tennis Academy. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">12. Ontario Racquet Club #2.</span></span></div>
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Pierre, C</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">laire
Podolsky,</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Edward
Liu, </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tea
Budisic,</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aakash Kapur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The third Champions event is scheduled for Feb 12 to 15,
2016 at the Aviva Centre in Toronto. Entry deadline is February 7. For complete
rules and regulations please go to and to enter go to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All players competing in the OTA Champions event must be
born no later than 2006 January 1st.
Players who have won the event in past years are NOT eligible to compete
in this year’s event. All competitors must be a registered OTA member. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All players will be randomly placed in a preliminary round
robin box. Players will advance to their respective flights based on their
preliminary results. Full court - green dot balls. Best of three short sets up to 4, tie breaker at 3 games all
up to 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The Champions” is the brain child of Mr. Murray Rubin, a
life-long tennis enthusiast and member of the York Racquets Club in Toronto.
Mr. Rubin has donated over $40,000 to “The Champions”, to be used to pay for
the one-on-one coaching of the young winners and finalists, payable over a two
year period. Muuray is a long time supporter of tennis in Canada and Ontario
whose “goal is to help produce a Canadian world champion”. The OTA will
administer the tournament and the coaching dollar grants offered to champions
and finalists.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">STEVE STEVENS CELEBRATES 99<sup>TH</sup>
BIRTHDAY<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tennis Canada Tennis Development
Staff and a few long time friends helped Steve Stevens celebrate his 99<sup>th</sup>
birthday at the Toronto Lawn on November 17<sup>th</sup>.Steve is now living in
a Seniors Residence and rumour has it he is already planning his 100<sup>th</sup>
birthday celebration. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those who are new to Seniors
Tennis or who do not yet qualify because of lack of years, Steve Stevens was,
until recently, the lead person for Seniors Tennis for Tennis Canada since
1984. He is a tremendous promoter of seniors;tennis and Canadian players participating
in the ITF World Team Championships and has seen participation in these events
grow significantly. Steve is also a past President and Board member of the OTA
and a former General Manager of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club.</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">INAUGURAL AMERICAS MASTERS GAMES IN VANCOUVER AUG 24 - SEP 4, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
International Masters Games Association (IMGA) was seeking to establish a
continental Games in the Americas region as a companion to the World Masters
Games. After successfully hosting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Vancouver was
the perfect site for hosting the inaugural AMG with infrastructure, sports
hosting facilities, and the local knowledge necessary. The inaugural Americas
Masters Games, organised by Sport BC, will be held in Vancouver August 26<sup>th</sup>
to Sept 4<sup>th</sup> 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone
over the age of 30 can participate in the Games. Participants will need proof
of age and valid identification but no sport qualification is required.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">25 sports, including tennis will be offered for the AMG 2016 program. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is
hoped that upwards of 10,000 people will participate. You are encouraged to
register early to guarantee your spot in the competition, and to allow time to
arrange your travel and accommodation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
Athlete games package fee is CAD $215.00 plus applicable taxes and booking
fees. Additional sports cost CAD $75.00 plus applicable taxes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Managers/Coaches
costs will be CAD $50.00<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Family and
Spectator costs will be CAD $50.00<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All three
packages include:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to spectacular Opening and Closing Ceremonies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Americas Masters Games 2016 Welcome Kit<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Masters Games 2016 Accreditation Badge<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to the Games ‘Health and Sport’ Expo in the Games plaza<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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format in first Masters Games of the Americas region<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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performance medals and Award Ceremonies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Events, Beer Garden and Entertainment in downtown Games plaza<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Attractions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #282828;">For more
information on this please go to </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #006621;"><a href="http://www.americasmastersgames2016.com/">www.<b>americasmastersgames</b>2016.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #282828;">The next
World Master Games will be held in Auckland New Zealand April 2017 for more information go to </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #006621;"><a href="http://www.worldmastersgames2017.co.nz/">www.<b>worldmastersgames</b>2017.co.nz</a>
</span></span><span style="color: #282828;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The inaugural World Masters Games were held in
Toronto in 1985.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-41755318533103836662015-12-18T06:45:00.001-08:002015-12-18T07:57:59.153-08:00REMEMBERING GUS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Sunday Dec 13, 2015 Gus Morhart passed away. He was at his winter home in
Florida, probably working on his latest
project, the Islamorada Tennis Club in Florida. Gus had bought this property
wanting to provide young Canadian tennis players with a safe and affordable place
to train in winter. He had already
installed an OTA banner and was looking for an OTA flag to hoist above the
property, such was his loyalty to the organization he had devoted much of his
time and energy to for more than 25 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gus was a doer, a builder, a practical person. He never
wanted to be in the limelight, he just went about making a better world through
tennis in his own modest and generous way. The ability to take an idea and turn
it into reality made Gus such an exceptional and valuable individual. He never
judged people, he never considered the shortcomings or argued about the
constraints or potential problems, he just did what he saw could be done. For example, after an exploratory discussion
about raising the profile and image of
the Ontario Junior Closed Championships, Gus made improvements a reality by
making single sticks and score cards for the courts and umpire chairs. He came
at dawn to put up the banners on the courts, on finals days he brought the
bouquets of flowers which were presented to all the girls with their trophies.
It was Gus who provided the bowl of candies at the tournament desk, who built
the large scoreboards, who organized the barbeque and who watched and supported
every junior who played in the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gus was also the transporter of players, both for the pros
on the grounds at the Rogers Cup or for the kids around junior nationals.
Whether it was a junior who needed picking up at the airport or Milos who
needed to be taken to hospital, Gus would be there with his trusty dark green
van covered with logos no matter what time of day or night. And then he would
be there to support the juniors at the big events in Florida in December,
Canada T shirts for every Canadian player, accommodation at his place in the Keys,
fish from his freezer, he shared everything he had. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gus was modest, kind and generous of spirit. He derived
great pleasure from giving, particularly if the gift was appreciated. He wanted very little for himself. I remember
when the OTA held a special lottery that it was Gus who was first to buy
tickets. When he won a trip to Wimbledon in the lottery, he gave it to a junior
so they could afford to go to play in the junior event and when they thanked
him with a towel from Wimbledon, he gave that away as appreciation to a fellow
volunteer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gus was officially recognized many times by the OTA (DSA and
other awards) by Tennis Canada and by the Ontario Government (Syl Apps award).
But I really think for him the best reward was a smile, a small favour, a
helping hand, a hug and a willingness to
help tennis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the juniors who played at Kew and their parents who
remember Gus most fondly. We are planning to include a collection of photos and
memories of Gus in the OTA Year Book which will be published online in
January. If you have a special photo or
memory of Gus that you would like to contribute please send it to me, <a href="mailto:pamolley@sympatico.ca">pamolley@sympatico.ca</a> or the OTA office
<a href="mailto:ota@tennisontario.com">ota@tennisontario.com</a> and we will
try to include it in our collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As of today there are no details available for a celebration
of Gus’s life, we hear that one will be held after the holidays and we will
notify you as soon as we know the time and place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photo by Peter Figura.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-14110607459537860972015-12-18T06:45:00.000-08:002015-12-18T08:01:17.590-08:00BIANCA ANDREESCU WINS THE ORANGE BOWL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BIANCA TAKES HER SECOND ORANGE
BOWL TITLE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bianca Andreescu (Toronto, ON)
completed a spectacularly successful 2015 season with the most significant
victory of her young career on Sunday at the Metropolia Orange Bowl in
Plantation, Florida. She captured the U18 girls singles title by defeating
American Kayla Day in the finals 7-6, 6-2.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bianca won the Under 16 Orange
Bowl singles title and was a runner up in the Under 14 Orange Bowl in 2014. Andreescu’s
other results in 2015 include, winning the singles and doubles titles at the
Condor De Plata in La Paz, Bolivia in February, reaching the final of the
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France Grade 1 event, reaching the final of the Gatineau
National Bank Challenger (a WTA event) and was a finalist in singles and a
champion in doubles at the Yucatan Cup, Mexico.
She was also the Rogers Canadian Junior Outdoor National U18 singles and
doubles champion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is expected that her year-end
World Junior ranking will be in the top 10 making her the highest ranked 15
year old in the world. She is the third Canadian junior to win the Under 18
Orange Bowl. Carling Bassett tool the title in 1982 and Gabriela Dabrowski in
2009.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bianca trains as part of the
National Tennis Centre and is coached by former French star, Natalie Tauziat<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OTHER ONTARIO JUNIORS WIN
HARDWARE IN FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s December, the month when
tens of Ontario juniors travel to Florida, often with their family in tow, to
test their skill in a series of the junior tournaments which attract competitors
from around the world and maybe enjoy a little rest and relaxation in the
sun. There is the Eddie Herr, the Orange
Bowl (aka the Junior World Championships), the junior Orange Bowl and for the even
younger crowd there is the Little Mo International. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Junior Orange Bowl is the
final event and it will be completed on Dec 22<sup>nd</sup><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several Ontario players won
trophies in the Little Mo tournament, named after former player Maureen
Connolly and supported by the Maureen Connolly
Brinker Foundation. This event takes place in Palm Beach Gardens and is hosted by BallenIsles Country Club, PGA National Resort and Spa, Eastpointe Golf and Racquet Club and at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis
Centre. This year under 13 and under 14 events were added to this tournament
which has events for every age from under 8 to under 12 in one year increments.
Green dot and Yellow ball events are played for the 10 and under age categories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boys 8 (green) singles Nicolas Arseneault (Richmond Hill), champion.
Zachary Kimmelman (Thornhill), 3<sup>rd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boys 10 (green) singles Daniel Tsukinovsky (Richmond Hill),
champion<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Girls 10 (yellow) singles Kayla
Cross (London) champion, Madison Lee (Mississauga) 3<sup>rd</sup>, Valeria Ray
(Toronto) 4<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Girls 11 singles Dasha
Plekhanova (Toronto) champion, Arina Artemyeva, 3<sup>rd</sup>, Dharani
Niroshan (Richmond Hill) 4<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Girls 14 singles Alexandra
Arkhipov, champion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The doubles events and the boys
11 singles have not been updated on the event web site so we do not have access
to those results yet. We believe that there were some trophy winners in the
doubles which we will publish if we get the information.</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-26531942878133223922015-10-23T06:52:00.003-07:002015-10-23T06:52:51.618-07:00JUNIOR DAVIS AND FED CUP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Following
up on their US Open Junior Boys Doubles championship, Denis Shapovolov of
Ontario and Felix Auger-Aliassime of Quebec were in winning form again at the
Junior Davis Cup, played in Madrid,
Spain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Canada’s
under 16 boys team were the top seeded team in the event. They beat Poland, Hong
Kong and the Czech Republic in round robin play and Russia in the semifinals
without dropping a match. Japan lost to Germany in their semi-final.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the
finals, against Germany, Denis led the way with a straightforward win over
Marvin Moeller. Felix lost the next singles match to Nicola Kuhn. Denis and
Felix then took on their singles opponents in the doubles match which would
decide the tie. After taking the first set 6-3, the Germans fought back to win
the second set. Fortunately the Canadian duo were able to seal the deal with a
6-2 win in the third set to win Canada’s first-ever Junior Davis Cup title..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
third member of the winning team was Benjamin Sigouin of Quebec. The best
finish by a Canadian Junior Davis Cup or Fed Cup team before this year was
second place — 2011, 2004, 2003 (Junior Fed Cup) and 2010 (Junior Davis Cup).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"It's
very exciting being the first Canadians to ever win Junior Davis Cup,"
said Shapovalov. "We knew we had the team to do it as all three of the
players on this team are great and contributed. We are very excited."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
women's junior Fed Cup team, made up Bianca Andreescu of Ontario, Charlotte
Robillard-Millette of Quebec and Vanessa Wong of Ontario also competed very well.
They won their round robin grouping with Japan, Great Britain and Japan. In the
semi-finals they played top seeded and eventual champions, Czech Republic and
regrouped to defeat Russia to take third place. USA was the other team in the
final four.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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countries qualify for the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup, which is for
under-16 players, through regional qualifying events. The host country teams
automatically qualify. This year 168 teams from 94 countries took part in
regional qualifying for this event. This competition has been held since 1985.
Formerly known as the World Youth Cup, it was rebranded as Junior Davis Cup and
Junior Fed Cup in 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
Sunshine and Connolly Cups, known informally as the junior Davis and Fed Cups,
were competitions for under-18 players organized by the ITF. The Canadian team
of Daniel Nestor and Rob Janacek of Ontario, along with Sebastien Lareau and
Sebastien Leblanc of Quebec, won the Sunshine Cup in 1989. These Cup events
have not been played since 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here are the winning Canadian and Czech Republic teams. The Czech girls,
Marketa Vondrousova, Monika Kilnarova and Anna Slovakova won their final over
USA to take the Junior Fed Cup. Photo by
Martin Sidorjak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-67681674076921612052015-10-23T06:52:00.002-07:002015-10-23T14:38:40.786-07:00TOURNAMENT OF GRAND CHAMPIONS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tournament of Grand Champions, a series of “Tournament of Club Champions” events were held
at the beautiful new University of Toronto,
Scarborough College Tennis Facility, which was upgraded for the Parapan
Am Games. Winners and Finalists of Club
Championships for 2014 and 2015 from clubs across Ontario were invited to
participate in singles, doubles and mixed doubles events spread over 3 weekends
in September and October. All players were guaranteed 3 matches over the
weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first event was for singles players. The women’s singles
A was won by Leanne James of the Granite Club who beat Vienne Lu of Kew Gardens
in the final. The women’s singles B was won by Renee James of the Cutten Club
who beat Anne Hurtibise of Kew Gardens in the final.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leighton Brandon of Kew
was crowned champion in the Junior Boys singles with his win over Tim
Zeikowvsky of Newmarket. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The men’s singles A winner was Justin Belanger of Davisville
who defeated Luke Coles of Mayfair Lakeshore in the final. Andrew Falco of
Heron Park took the men’s B honours with a win over Kew Gardens member,
Justin David.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The men’s and women’s doubles events were held the last
weekend in September. The women’s C title was won by Diane Howarth &
Annette Brajer of Pine Point who defeated Natasha Stojanova & Alexsanda
Stojanova in their final. The women’s B was won by Rhonda Kazdan & Lauren
Tabatznik of Mayfair West who beat Mary Ruehlicke & Lisa Hoffman of
Waterloo in their final. The women’s A final was won by Jacqueline Green &
Sandra Barrett of Mayfair Lakeshore who defeated Mary Hall & Pat Hall of
Curran Hall. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The men’s A champions were Konrad Chan & Ilias Mourador
of Henry Farms who defeated Brian Li & Bobby Gheorghiu of Thorncliffe Park
in the final. Mandeep Singh & Arul Raj of Malton took home the B honours
with a win over Wayne Ivey & Rhuel Maano of North York in their final.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">October 3 and 4 saw the mixed doubles events on the courts.
The mixed A champions are Paul Scotti & Christina Rustscheff of Davisville,
while Kanta Murali & Paul Kingston of Mayfair Lakeshore were the finalists (see photo from right to left).
The mixed B honours went to Stephanie Wong & Tyson Wong of Agincourt who
beat Mary Ruehlicke & Peter Gavaris of Waterloo in the final.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Special thanks go to Scott McRoberts of the U of T Scarborough College Tennis Centre who made this possible and to Tennis Access's Sandra Barrett and her team of volunteers for their unflagging energy and enthusiasm in getting this event off the ground.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-66731084058828983512015-10-23T06:52:00.001-07:002015-10-23T06:52:40.877-07:00INTERCOUNTY TENNIS YEAR END FINALS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Intercounty tennis association league annual playoffs at
the Aviva Centre were initially scheduled for September 19<sup>th</sup> but
with a blustery, rainy and cold forecast, some of the matches were played on
Sunday September 20<sup>th</sup>. Thanks
go to all the committed volunteers who make this event one that is so important
to the many recreational players who compete every week throughout the summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several matches were hotly contested and the winners
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The league winners were as follows</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MIXED League<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Majors: Dentonia Park beat Davisville on sets 3-3, 8-7 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Division: Don Mills won over Banbury (default)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B Division: Boulevard beat Pine Point 3-3, 7-7, 59-58</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C Division: Richmond Hill Lawn 6 beat Richmond Hill Lawn 7,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Majors: Banbury beat ORC 1
9-3 (see photo above of the Banbury ladies team)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Division: Ajax beat Brampton 12-0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B1 Division: Sheridan beat Ballantrae 12-0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B2 Division: Whitby beat King City 6-6, 5-5, 43-36</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Division 1: Newmarket beat Brampton (see photo below of the Newmarket over 55 team)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mixed Major: Glenview beat Unionville</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Intercounty Tennis Association encourages would be
photographers to bring their cameras to this event. For more information on the leagues or to see
the photo galleries that have been uploaded you can go to <a href="http://www.intercountytennis.com/">www.intercountytennis.com</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-55049168328233671272015-10-23T06:52:00.000-07:002015-10-23T14:35:30.212-07:00SUPER SENIORS AT THE WORLDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ITF Super
Senior World Team and World Individual Championships were held in Umag Croatia Sept 21 to 26 and Sept 28 to Oct 3 respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several Ontario
players represented Canada in the team events. Tim Griffin & John Payne
(65s), John Tibbits & Shaheer Mikhail (70s), Guido Weber (75s), Lorne Main
(80s), Mary Ann Gaskin & Coby Dommasch (65s). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the team events, the Canadian women’s over-65 team had the country’s best finishing position, placing eighth in the Kitty Godfree Cup. The best men’s finish for Team Canada was ninth in the over-70 Jack Crawford Cup. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tennis Canada Seniors
Committee decided not to send women’s teams in the 70, 75 and 80 age groups.
Canada has been a great supporter of these women’s events in past years and
encouraged new levels of competition to be introduced. For instance, Canada had won the women’s over 80 team event (the Doris Hart Cup) every year since its inception in 2011. The
existence of senior teams and Canada’s active support of these events has been
an inspiration and incentive for mature women to play and compete and there has been a corresponding increase in the number of entries at the Steve Stephens Senior Nationals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the women who was on all
the triumphant Canadian over 80 women’s teams, Rosemarie Asch of Montreal, did
make the trip to Croatia and swept the over-85 age category at the ITF Super
Seniors World Individual Championships, claiming three gold medals. In women’s
singles Rosie beat Monique Giffard of France, 6-0, 6-1 to claim the crown. Rosie
won the over-85 women’s doubles title with Hungarian Erzsebet Szentirmay and
the over-85 mixed doubles trophy with fellow Canadian Lorne Main (see photo).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6d6e71;">Asch went a perfect 8-0, never
losing a set all week and in fact dropping just 14 games in total. Asch, who
will turn 85 in November, was playing in the over-85 age category for the first
time. For the complete draws and results from the ITF Super Seniors World
Individual Championships please visit </span><a href="http://www.itftennis.com/seniors">www.itftennis.com/seniors</a><span style="color: #6d6e71;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6d6e71; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next year's Steve Stephens Senior Nationals (2016) will be held in Ottawa August 21 to 27. The next ITF World Team championships will be held in Croatia for the young seniors (O35,O40 & O45) May 1-6, 2016, in Helsinki, Finland for the senios (O50, O55 & O60) June 19 - 24, 2016 and in Antalya, Turkey for the Super Seniors (O65, O70, O75 & O80) Oct 16-21, 2016. The individual championships for each group are played the following week.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04892297072252834490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984614175222490168.post-83096876764666405492015-10-23T06:51:00.000-07:002015-10-23T14:32:11.035-07:00MIELE MASTERS CIRCUIT WINNERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first Miele Masters Circuit concluded on Thanksgiving
weekend with the Mayfair Senior Masters. This included a special century mixed
doubles event and a reception on Saturday evening at the Miele Gallery in Vaughan.</span></div>
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registered Ontario players who entered singles events were automatically
entered. The four events were the Ontario Senior Provincial Championships –
men’s and women’s singles, held July 6 – 12, the ITF Senior Championships at
Donalda – men’s and women’s singles, held July 15 – 19, the Steve Stevens
Senior National Tennis Championships – men’s and women’s singles, held in
Montreal August 16 – 22, and the Mayfair Senior Masters – men’s and women’s
singles, held October 9 – 12.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The special century
mixed doubles event was won by Sandra Cimetta & Barry Litman (see photo right) who beat Kerry
Mitchell & Glenda Hirvela (see photo left) in the finals. Semi-finalists were Ben Woo &
Akemi Seiriki and James Henkelman & Cindy O’Doherty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MS35 Dave Rowat, Vahid Tahamtan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MS45 Nels Stanfield, Mike O’Neill</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS45 Cindy O’Doherty, Nancy Lin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MS50 Gary Meanchos, James Henkelman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MS55 Kerry Mitchell, Avi Singer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WS55 Sue Bye, Rudite Loze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MS65 Peter Gonda, Brian Fung.</span></div>
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Singles Circuit Winners will receive Miele Gourmet Dinners and Prize money,
Second Place will receive a Tennis Canada Prize Pack and Third Place players an
OTA/Sponsor Prize Pack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">35 s Dave Rowat, Vahid
Tahamtan, Dane Smith </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">40s Jason Christie,
George Virich, Catalin Codita </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">45s Mike O'Neill, Karl
Hale, Jorey Middlestadt & John Murray (Tied)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">50s Gary Meanchos, James
Jeffrey Henkelman, Kerry Mitchell</span></div>
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Avi Singer, Paul Bedard</span></div>
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Borodulin, Joe Novak, Rosti
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">65s Peter Gonda, John
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Vanessa Andreescu entered the 2015 Gatineau National Bank Challenger tennis tournament
as a wild card on July 28 and left as runner-up on August 2. The 15 year old
from Mississauga played some of her best tennis ever en route to the final of
the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Pro Circuit tournament before losing
to top seed Alexa Glash of the United States 6-4, 6-3.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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finals the right-handed Andreescu, coached by former French professional player
Nathalie Tauziat, was undefeated at the pro level after winning four straight
matches in Gatineau. She became the second Canadian to reach the Gatineau finals
following Françoise Abanda of Montreal who was runner up in 2014’s inaugural tournament.</span>
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although losing to 25 year old
Glash, ranked 145 in the world as of August 2015, Andreescu had an impressive
run in Gatineau and earned her first 30 Women’s Tennis Association (WTA)
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US$25,000
challenger tournament is played outdoors on the hard courts at Parc de I’ile in
Gatineau, Quebec, across the Ottawa River from the nation’s capital. The
official ball is the Wilson US Open Regular Duty. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ITF,
based in London England, is the governing body of world tennis and the ITF women’s
Pro Circuit provides entry level tournaments enabling players to reach the WTA tour.
The circuit annually features some 500+ tournaments in 65 countries worldwide
and currently has six prize money levels: US$10,000, US$15,000, US$25,000,
US$50,000, US$75,000 and US$100,000. The WTA singles ranking list released at
the end of 2014 showed that all but two players had, at some point in<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> their career, competed on the ITF Pro Circuit.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home town: Mississauga Club: Tennis Canada NTC Style: Right Handed (Two-handed backhand)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bio: Bianca is in the NTC program at the Aviva Centre and is trained by Tennis Canada's coaches. She is 15 years old and competes in the OTA and National U16 and U18 divisions. This summer Bianca won the U18 national championship in singles and doubles. Highlights of her young career include winning the U16 Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships in girls singles. She is currently ranked #1 provincially in U16 and U18. She is ranked #2 and #3 in National rankings for U16 and U18 respectively.</span></span></div>
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