The ITF Wheelchair Tour had an prolonged keep in British Columbia over the past month, one thing that younger Frederique Berube Perron took full benefit of.
At simply 18 years of age, the Canadian seems to be to be a rising star within the wheelchair tennis world after claiming three trophies at a pair of occasions on the West Coast.
Her greatest outcomes got here final week on the Vancouver Worldwide Wheelchair Tennis Event, the place she gained each the ladies’s singles and doubles titles. The previous was her first profession ITF singles title.
Berube Perron, who has performed in additional junior attracts than ladies’s in 2024, didn’t drop a set on her solution to the singles title. Within the remaining, she beat Laura Goodkind, an American 20 years her senior.
“Wow, what a match! I actually didn’t count on this end result. I solely began a yr and a half in the past,” mentioned Berube Perron after her victory in Vancouver. “I’m actually happy with myself and all of the progress I’ve made. All of the sacrifices and coaching have paid off. Due to all of the match organizers, to Laura [Goodkind] who performed an awesome match and above all an enormous thanks to my household, my coach and Tennis Canada for believing in me!”
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The singles finalists additionally teamed as much as win the doubles in Vancouver, which was their second title in a row collectively. The week prior, Berube Perron and Goodkind gained the doubles on the Kamloops Legacy Wheelchair Tennis Event.
That title in Kamloops was the primary ITF ladies’s title of the younger Canadian’s profession.
The one different Canadian winner on the two British Columbia occasions was native Thomas Venos, who gained the lads’s doubles title in Kamloops with Brazil’s Bruno Makey. Within the three-team round-robin occasion, they dominated, shedding simply three video games of their two matches.
Venos is now as much as 5 ITF doubles titles in 2024.
In Kamloops, Anne-Marie Dolinar reached the ladies’s singles remaining however misplaced to Goodkind.
Listed here are the winners of the occasion in Kamloops.
Listed here are the winners of the occasion in Vancouver.
Boucherville
Again in June, the ITF Wheelchair Tour made a cease in Japanese Canada for the Sani Sport Worldwide Open in Boucherville, Quebec.
Two Canadians have been victorious on house soil on the occasion.
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Natalia Lanucha picked up her first singles title of the yr, rising from the four-woman subject in a round-robin occasion. The ladies’s singles title was successfully determined within the match between Lanucha and younger Frederique Berube Perron. Each have been 2-0 heading into their remaining match, which the veteran Lanucha gained in three units to ensure a first-place end.
Previous to win No. 5 in Kamloops, Thomas Venos gained his fourth doubles title of the yr in Boucherville. He and American Conner Stroud have been the highest seeds and didn’t drop a set on their solution to victory.
Venos additionally reached the singles remaining however misplaced to his doubles accomplice, Stroud.
Right here is the total checklist of winners from the ITF Occasion in Boucherville.
Shaw Lastly Stands Alone
It has been an excellent yr for Rob Shaw in doubles competitors, having already gained 4 titles. However singles trophies had eluded the Canadian star.
That modified in early July, when Shaw gained his first singles title of the yr on the German Open, beating Chile’s Francisco Cayulef 7-5, 7-6(5) within the remaining. It’s Shaw’s twenty third ITF singles title general however first since 2022.
“What a solution to end out an awesome week in Berlin. Couldn’t be happier with how I gutted out my efficiency at the moment,” mentioned Shaw after his victory over Cayulef within the remaining. “I went into the match feeling very underneath the climate however managed to seek out the sparks I wanted to win. I executed to the very best my physique would enable at the moment and that’s all I might ask for.”
Shaw didn’t drop a set on his solution to successful in Berlin for the second time (2022). The finals victory over Cayulef was additionally revenge for the Parapan American Video games remaining final November, narrowly gained by the Chilean.
On Thursday, Shaw was formally named to Staff Canada for the upcoming Paralympic Video games in Paris. He’s the lone Canadian to qualify instantly for the wheelchair tennis occasion, though wild playing cards are nonetheless to be introduced.
One other results of notice over the past month got here at an occasion in Alghero, Italy, the place Anne-Marie Dolinar reached the doubles remaining with Zuleinny Rodriguez Trujillo, however they fell within the title match in straight units.
