It was one other particular alternative for Rob Shaw to compete and present his skillset on one of many biggest worldwide levels in sport.
Canada’s prime wheelchair tennis athlete made his second profession look on the Paralympic Video games, this time competing on the clay courts of Roland Garros.
It was a brisk begin for the 34-year-old, who raced out of the gates with a decisive 6-2, 6-1 win over Brazil’s Ymanitu Silva to advance to the quarterfinals. Sadly his run in Paris was halted by younger Dutchman Niels Vink, who merely overwhelmed the remainder of the competitors.
After defeating Shaw 6-0, 6-0, Vink would cruise via his semifinals and finals matches, dropping simply three video games whole. It was the second Paralympic gold medal of his profession; Vink has additionally received 5 Grand Slam titles together with back-to-back Wimbledon championships.
Regardless of his loss within the quarter-finals, Shaw has undoubtedly loved a incredible 2024. The Canadian has picked up two singles titles this season together with a victory on the ITF Collection 1 Swiss Open, the largest of his profession. He’s additionally notched 5 doubles titles, 4 of them with Australian companion Heath Davidson.
Individuals shine at Birmingham Basic, Venos locations runner up in doubles
Toronto was the host web site of the Birmingham Wheelchair Tennis Basic, that includes three classes in each singles and doubles, with males’s and girls’s competitors and a Quad division.
British Columbia’s Thomas Venos, who sits a profession excessive 52nd within the rankings, reached the quarter-finals of singles earlier than falling to prime seeded American Casey Ratzlaff.
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Ratzlaff would go on to defeat Connor Stroud in an all-American ultimate to earn the title.
Venos fared even higher in doubles – the 25-year-old superior to the finals alongside Nice Britain’s Andrew Penney. The pair would lose a tightly contested ultimate to Ratzlaff and Stroud 6-1, 5-7, 10-3.
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In ladies’s singles, Frederique Berube Perron of Quebec defeated fellow Canuck Anne-Marie Dolinar in her first match earlier than falling to the highest seed and eventual champion Cornelia Ousthuizen of Nice Britain.
The doubles featured a 3 group spherical robin, with Berube Perron putting second alongside Ruby Bishop of Nice Britain, because the group notched one win and one loss.
With the wheelchair tennis traditional within the rearview mirror, athletes nonetheless set their websites on quite a lot of large occasions, together with the 2024 Birmingham Nationwide Championships. Bedford, Nova Scotia will host the occasion from October seventeenth to twentieth.
