Since the season has closed, Tennis Canada is satisfied to share its conventional year-end survey to feature the achievement Canadian players accomplished throughout recent months, as well as offer the achievements and progress of the association’s drives.
Accomplishment ON THE COURTS
Canadian tennis players indeed exhibited why Canada has its place among the world’s driving tennis countries. Throughout the season, they brought back titles and celebrated individual accomplishments. Here are a portion of the features:
Group Canada wins at the Billie Jean Ruler Cup: Subsequent to coming out on top for its most memorable Davis Cup championship in 2022, Canada asserted the Billie Jean Lord Cup without precedent for the country’s set of experiences. Addressing Group Canada introduced by Sobeys, Leylah Fernandez (Laval, QC), Rebecca Marino (Vancouver, BC), Gabriela Dabrowski (Ottawa, ON), Eugenie Bouchard (Montréal, QC) and Marina Stakusic (Mississauga, ON) crushed Spain, Poland, Czechia and Italy in the Finals to make Canada the thirteenth country to win the renowned rivalry since its beginning. With the success in Seville, Spain, the crew, drove by commander Heidi El Tabakh, composed one more page in our set of experiences as Canada rose to No.1 in the Billie Jean Ruler Cup rankings interestingly and naturally qualified for the 2024 Finals, which will likewise be held in Seville.
Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe delegated US Open ladies’ copies champion: At the US Open, Dabrowski of Ottawa, Ontario, and Erin Routliffe impacted the world forever as they guaranteed Canada’s most memorable Huge homerun ladies’ pairs title. In the last, the team overwhelmed Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva (7-6(9), 6-3). Their triumph on Arthur Ashe Arena, a subsequent title in Zhengzhou and a few great exhibitions, remembering an appearance for the last in Guadalajara, cleared the pair’s way to the WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, where Dthey arrived at the elimination rounds.
39 titles on the expert visits: Similarly as in 2022, Canada’s professionals had accomplishment all over the planet, aggregately procuring 20 singles and 19 pairs titles. Among the champs were Félix Drill Aliassime (Montréal, QC), who shielded his crown in Basel to gather his 6th ATP title, and Leylah Fernandez, who added a third victor’s prize to her record in Hong Kong.
Nine Canadians win on home soil: The competitions held in Canada are special open doors for our players to procure significant positioning focuses, and they absolutely capitalized on the current year’s occasions. Nine Canadians became singles or pairs champions at home — an exceptional record in Canadian history.
In the ladies’ down, Katherine Sebov (Toronto, ON) won the Saguenay Public Bank Challenger for the subsequent time in the wake of getting her most memorable success in 2018 and arriving at the last in 2022. Rising stars Victoria Mboko (17) and Marina Stakusic (19) kept on dazzling with triumphs at the Saskatoon Challenger and Tevlin Challenger, individually. In men’s tennis, Alexis Galarneau (QC) and Liam Draxl (ON) won their most memorable ATP Public Bank Challenger titles in Granby and Calgary, separately.
Davis Cup Finals – A third appearance for Canada in the Last 8: In the wake of coming out on top for its most memorable big showdown title last year, Group Canada introduced by Sobeys naturally qualified for the Gathering Phase of the 2023 Davis Cup Finals. Once more group Canada won at this stage, arriving at the Last 8 of the group rivalry for the second year straight and the third time in its set of experiences. The group in the long run lost to Finland 2-1 in the quarter-finals.
The new yield of tennis experts continues onward: This previous season, a few Canadians took critical actions up the rankings huge amounts at a time. Gabriel Diallo (+88) and Liam Draxl (+292) are as of now positioned No.139 and No.292, separately, while Katherine Sebov progressed to No.143 (+79), Stacey Fung moved to No.257 (+101), Marina Stakusic rose to No.258 (+124) and Victoria Mboko climbed to No.323 (+176).
Canadian wheelchair tennis keeps on succeeding: Eight Canadian players completed the season in the Main 100 of the ITF UNIQLO singles rankings:
Quad: Burglarize Shaw (No.9), Mitch McIntyre (No.36), Hisham Mohammad (No.78) and Gary Luker (No.81)
Ladies’: Natalia Lanucha (No.42) and Anne-Marie Dolinar (No.51)
Men’s: Thomas Venos (No.58) and Barry Henderson (No.91)
Burglarize Shaw, who won silver at the Parapan American Games, is the main Canadian to fit the bill for the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Bosses in singles and duplicates for the subsequent straight season. In 2022, he was the principal Canadian to be welcome to the renowned competition since Sarah Tracker in 2004.