Masters Update by Abrysvo: Near Sweep for Canadians in Bedford

The ITF Masters Tour was again in Canada in October with a MT100 occasion being held on the Sobeys Atlantic Tennis Centre in Bedford, Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Masters. It was a robust event for the host nation as Canadians accounted for all however one title. 

Right here is the month-to-month Masters tennis replace by Abrysvo.  

Smaller fields have been a characteristic in Bedford, with solely six singles attracts, 4 of which have been spherical robins and one different solely had two rivals. 

Solely the lads’s 60+ singles was a typical knockout bracket. High seed James Piggott got here by means of that one to win the title, not dropping a set and capping off the run with a win over his second-seeded countryman Brian Corridor 7-5, 7-5 within the closing.  

Piggott was the one participant to win each the singles and doubles of their age group, claiming the doubles with Donnie Ehler. The doubles occasion was a spherical robin and the pair didn’t drop a set. 

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Lisa Tooley was additionally a double champion in Bedford. The 61-year-old defeated Elise St-Antoine to win the 60+ girls’s singles title and teamed up with Sandy Mackie to say the 40+ girls’s doubles. 

Israel’s Maria Kupitman was the one non-Canadian to win a title on the Atlantic Masters, claiming the 40+ girls’s singles. 

Right here is the total record of winners (Canadian until in any other case famous):  

One closing ITF Masters Tour occasion might be held in Canada in 2024, the MT100 Wilson Victoria Masters in Victoria, BC. The event is working from Nov. 6 to 10. Click on right here to see the attracts and outcomes.

ITF Outcomes 

The very best outcomes Canada had on the ITF Masters Tour during the last month got here in Dubai, with one champions trophy being claimed in addition to a runner-up end on the MT200 occasion. 

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Omar Rashid claimed the 50+ males’s singles title, his fourth on the ITF tour and first exterior of Canada. Rashid was the third seed and bought to the ultimate with out dropping a set, together with a straight-set win excessive seed Tarek Moussa of Egypt within the semis. He beat second-seeded American Birj Menon within the match tiebreak 5-7, 6-3, 10-2 to say the title. 

Sara Khadem additionally performed for the title within the girls’s 30+ singles in Dubai however misplaced within the closing to Britain’s Svitlana Grytsenko. 

The largest win of the month got here in Charleston, the place Hannah Blatt gained the MT400 girls’s doubles title within the 30+ bracket. She partnered with American Ryan Reichel and the tandem didn’t drop a set, dropping simply 11 video games on their method to the title. It was the primary ITF title for Blatt. 

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On the MT100 occasion in Athens, Nikolaos Roditis was fully outnumbered by the host nation within the 45+ males’s singles however managed to sneak by means of to say victory. Roditis was the one non-Greek participant within the 23-man discipline. 

After escaping his opening match with a 4-6, 7-6(7), 11-9 win, Roditis didn’t drop a set the remainder of the best way, beating prime seed Michael Orfanidis within the closing 6-4, 6-4 to win his fourth ITF singles title.