For the second 12 months in a row, Thomas Venos and Mitch McIntyre each swept their divisions on the Birmingham Nationwide Wheelchair Tennis Championships, every taking house a singles and doubles title.
There was no repeat of 2023’s triple sweep nonetheless as they had been joined within the winner’s circle by a brand new champion within the ladies’s singles, 18-year-old Frédérique Bérubé-Perron, who gained her first nationwide title.
The most important competitors on the Birmingham Nationals, which had been held on the Sobeys Atlantic Tennis Centre in Bedford, NS, was the lads’s singles with 13 rivals. Venos cruised to his third consecutive title and fourth total, not dropping a set in 5 matches on his technique to victory.
Venos didn’t even lose a sport till the semifinals in opposition to No. 4 seed Shawn Courchesne, successful each of his group stage matches after which his quarter-final 6-0, 6-0. After beating Courchesne 6-1, 6-1, the British Columbian defeated Barry Henderson 7-5, 6-1 to say the title.
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Within the doubles, Venos teamed up with Henderson and the pair cruised to victory, dropping simply two video games, each within the remaining in opposition to Courchesne and Jean-Paul Mélo. It’s the sixth consecutive nationwide doubles title for Venos and fifth in a row for Venos and Henderson as a crew.
Whereas Venos accomplished his third consecutive sweep on the nationwide championships, McIntyre achieved his second in a row, successful each the quad singles and doubles titles.
Throughout each competitions, McIntyre misplaced only a single sport on his technique to the titles. In singles, he gained 5 of six units within the round-robin occasion 6-0, with Hisham Mohammad managing to attain a single sport within the first set of their match. Mohammad then joined forces with McIntyre because the pair beat Steven Dunn and Erduan Solak 6-0, 6-0 to say the doubles title.
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Bérubé-Perron dominated the ladies’s singles occasion. It was a five-person spherical robin and the teenager cruised, not dropping a set on her technique to ending atop the group to say the title. She solely misplaced 10 complete video games, successful two of her matches 6-0, 6-0.
Her victory broke the duopoly of Natalie Lanucha and Anne-Marie Dolinar, who had mixed to win each ladies’s singles title on the Birmingham Nationals since 2018. Dolinar, whose 6-4, 6-2 loss to Bérubé-Perron was the teenager’s best match in Bedford, completed because the runner-up courtesy of an exciting three-set win over the reigning champion Lanucha.
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Dolinar and Lanucha teamed as much as win the ladies’s doubles with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Marilyn Abbs and Vicky Lee Morton. It’s the third straight nationwide title for the pair and sixth in a row for Lanucha, who gained in 2018, 2019, and 2021 (there was no competitors in 2020) with completely different companions.
Like Venos and McIntyre, Bérubé-Perron claimed two winners’ trophies in Bedford, simply not a divisional sweep. She additionally competed within the three-player junior draw and dominated that too, successful each of her matches in straight units to win the title.
