Summer has not even arrived yet but things are heating up on the ITF Masters Tour in Canada. The Great White North hosted a pair of events over the last month and the host nation cleaned up, scoring almost every title available.
South of the border. Team Canada was in action at the 60+/65+/70+ world championships.
Here is the monthly Masters Tennis update by ABRYSVO.
ITF Montreal
The MT200 Montreal Masters in Memory of Maggie Jacobs was primarily a national event, with almost every competitor being from the host nation. As such, Canadians accounted for every title, with only one doubles crown being shared. Yara Ross of Cuba won the 40+ women’s doubles alongside Canadian Ira Kapitanova.
Two women doubled up in their respective age groups. In the women’s 50+, Sandie Charmeteau won both the singles and doubles titles, while Annabel Andersson did the same in the 60+ division.
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Here is the full list of winners from the Montreal Masters events. All players are Canadian unless indicated otherwise:
| Men’s Singles | Women’s Singles | Men’s Doubles | Women’s Doubles |
30+ | Nicolas Vincent | Gaelle Simian | Simon-Pierre Caron/ | No event |
40+ | Alexei Bykov | No event | Emmanuel Bajolle/ | Ira Kapitanova/ |
50+ | Martin Lemay | Sandie Charmeteau | No event | Sandie Charmeteau/ |
60+ | Dariusz Kozak | Annabel Andersson | Richard Viau/ | Annabel Andersson/ |
ITF Vancouver
The 2025 BC Masters Provincials, despite its name, had a far larger international presence and a significantly larger field overall, with 40 draws being held across 11 age groups.
Even with more competition, the host nation still managed to dominate, getting at least one hand on 37 of 40 trophies.
Seven competitors, including five Canadians, doubled up in Vancouver. Carson Bell (men’s 40+), Robert Bettauer (men’s 65+), Mary Potter (women’s 65+), and Thomas Gunton (men’s 75+) of Canada, along with Yan Pang (women’s 35+) and Jialin Wang (men’s 70+) of China, all won the singles and doubles titles in their respective age groups. Pang and Wang both won their doubles titles with Canadian partners.
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Grant Findlay-Shirras won titles in multiple age groups, claiming the 30+ men’s doubles and the 35+ men’s singles.
Here is the full list of winners from the Vancouver Masters events. All players are Canadian unless indicated otherwise:
| Men’s Singles | Women’s Singles | Men’s Doubles | Women’s Doubles |
30+ | Benjamin David Barad (USA) | Khristina Blajkevitch | Grant Findlay-Shirras/ | Kateryna Filyus/ |
35+ | Grant Findlay-Shirras | Yan Pang (CHN) | Farbod Diba/ | Xiang Cathy Feng/ |
40+ | Carson Bell | Jennifer Tse | Carson Bell/ | Renata Reid/ |
45+ | Hayssam Hamdy Gaber | Kristi Tremble | Michael Andersen (AUS)/ | Lynette Li/ |
50+ | Mehrdad Shokrani | Haiying Lin | Steven Feng/ | Bronwyn Muirhead (AUS)/ |
55+ | Max Brown | Susie Lang-Gould | Michael Hall/ | Deliana Matei/ |
60+ | Glenn Richards | Wendy Banham | Stephen Kimoff/ | Anna McAlpine/ |
65+ | Robert Bettauer | Mary Potter | Robert Bettauer/ | Brenda Cameron/ |
70+ | Jialin Wang (CHN) | Micheline Berry | Jialin Wang (CHN)/ | Janice Holloway/ |
75+ | Thomas Gunton | Eileen Clark | Thomas Gunton/ | No event |
80+ | Donald McCormick | No event | No event | No event |
Canada will host three ITF Masters events in June.
World Championship
The second batch of ITF Masters World Championships took place in May in Palm Beach, Florida, with the 60+, 65+, and 70+ age groups competing in both the team and individual championships. Canada had representatives in all draws.
In the team event, four Canadian teams got out of the group stage into the primary playoff round, but none of them advanced past the quarter-finals.
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The men had bad luck, with both the 60+ and 65+ teams losing to the eventual champions, France and Australia respectively, in the quarter-finals. The 60+ team ultimately finished sixth, while the 65+ squad finished seventh. The 70+ men also went out in the quarter-finals and finished sixth overall.
On the women’s side, the 65+ women qualified for the 1st to 8th playoff but lost in the quarter-finals, finishing seventh overall. The 75+ women were unable to make it out of their group and finished sixth overall in their smaller competition. The 60+ women also were unable to get out of their group and finished ninth.
At the individual championships the following week, the best singles results by Canadians were quarter-final showings from David DeFehr in the men’s 60+, Brian Millar in the men’s 70+, and Erin Boynton in the women’s 65+.
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Canada fared a little better in doubles, with Boyton reaching the women’s 65+ doubles semi with American Anne Hayden Frautschi and Keith Porter getting to the last four of the 70+ men’s doubles with Brit Jasper Cooper. Barry Gorman and Michael McLoughlin both reached the quarter-finals of the 70+ men’s doubles with American partners.
Here are the Canadians who reached finals on the ITF Masters Tour outside of Canada over the last month (Titles in bold).
- Elizabeth McDougall: MT400 Arcachon women’s 60+ doubles champion and singles runner-up
- Scott Gerrity: MT400 Castelldefels men’s 60+ doubles runner-up
Feature Photo : Tennis BC
