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News Archives: August 2009
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2010 Junior National Qualification to Include Prairie Regionals
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Fri Aug 28'09 (Updated
Nov 25'09) |
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Winnipeg, MB (TM) – Tennis Manitoba and Tennis
Saskatchewan have been notified by Tennis Canada
that the number of spots being allocated to the
Prairie Region for the Rogers Junior National
Championships will be
reduced from 4 to 3. The change will take effect for
the 2010 indoor Rogers Junior National Championships.
This
has precipitated a change in the selection process
for the players from both provinces. A Prairie
Regional Qualifier will be held March 5-7, 2010 in
Saskatoon to select the top 3 boys and top 3 girls
in each age group (U12, U14, U16 and U18's). Each
draw will consist of up to 6 players, with 3 spots
being given to each province.
Further
details regarding the Prairie Regional Qualifier and
the process for the selection of the players that
will represent Manitoba at the Prairie Regionals
will be announced in the near future.
See
also
Tennis
Manitoba Junior Tour
Junior Tour
Rankings
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Tennis pair aces a medal for Manitoba
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Photo: B Waschuk
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| Chad Lacap (left)
and partner Sean Bailey in action at the
Victoria Park Canada Summer Games tennis
venue in Charlottetown, PEI. |
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Fri Aug 21'09 |
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Doubles bronze in
men's event 'feels
awesome' Winnipeg, MB (Paul Wiecek,
Winnipeg Free Press) – An embattled Manitoba
tennis team, medal-less
and playing without a
team member who was
quarantined with what
proved to be a
non-existent case of the
H1N1 flu, finally got
some good news at the
Canada Games in Prince
Edward Island on
Thursday.
Team members Sean Bailey
and Chad Lacap won
bronze for Manitoba in
the men's doubles event,
the first medal of the
Games for the Manitoba
tennis team and just the
second of any kind for
Manitoba in P.E.I.
Triathlete Sarah-Anne
Brault won silver for
Manitoba on Tuesday.
Bailey, 17, and Lacap,
15, defeated Alberta in
straight sets, 6-3, 6-3,
to capture the bronze.
"It feels awesome," said
Lacap, who's going into
Grade 11 at Maples
Collegiate next month.
"We stuck to our game
plan. We played it
tough."
Lacap and Bailey have
been practice partners
at the Winnipeg Winter
Club for the past five
years, but Bailey said
the two had been playing
doubles together only
since being selected for
Manitoba's Games team
barely a month ago.
"We're pretty
comfortable with each
other," said Bailey.
Thursday's bronze medal
was a bit of a
going-away present for
Bailey, who begins
first-year classes next
week at Tennessee's
Austin Peay State
University, an NCAA
Division 1 school.
Bailey, a graduate of
Miles Mac, will be
attending on a tennis
scholarship. "I'm pretty
pumped," he said. "I
come home for a day and
then I have to leave
right away because
classes begin Aug. 27.
"Tennis has been pretty
good to me."
It hasn't been so good
for the rest of the
Manitoba tennis team,
however. The team has
been shut out of the
medals except for the
lone bronze and on top
of that, player Muzeen
Ismath was quarantined
in P.E.I. this week with
a possible case of H1N1
flu. Ismath was released
Thursday night after the
test results came back
negative.
A Manitoba team official
said Thursday that
Bailey and Lacap had
both been forbidden to
discuss their stricken
teammate.
Manitoba's medal tally
of two has the province
way down in the medal
standings in P.E.I.
Quebec is dominating the
competition with 32
medals, including 10
gold, followed by B.C.
with 21 medals and
Ontario with 20.
Manitoba's medal tally
of two puts the province
in seventh place, two
medals behind
sixth-place Saskatchewan
and one ahead of New
Brunswick.
Newfoundland, Nunavut,
Northwest Territories,
Yukon and P.E.I. have
all yet to medal.
Manitoba was shut out in
rowing finals on
Thursday but has three
more chances to medal in
finals today. Both the
province's beach
volleyball teams will
also play in
bronze-medal games
today.
The province's softball
team will play in the
page playoff 3 vs. 4
game today against
Quebec after finishing
the round-robin alone in
third place at 7-2.
The winner of
Manitoba-Quebec will
play the loser of
today's 1 vs. 2 game
between B.C. and Ontario
in the semi-final
Saturday. The winner of
that game will then
advance to the final to
play the winner of
B.C.-Ontario.
paul.wiecek@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the
Winnipeg Free Press
print edition August 21,
2009 C6
See also...
Canada
Games
Tennis
Manitoba Junior Tour
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Bailey and LaCap Win Bronze Medal at Canada Games
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Photos:
Robin Sen
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| Chad LaCap (above left) & Sean Bailey
are presented with their bronze metals and
are joined below by coaches Peter Otto and
Kyla McNichol. |
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Thu Aug 20'09 |
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Winnipeg, MB (TM) – After losing a tough 3 set semi-final match to
Quebec, Sean Bailey and Chad LaCap were able to
defeat Tobiasz Strozyk and Luke Manley of Alberta
6-3, 6-3 to win the Bronze Medal in Men’s Doubles at
the Canada Summer Games in PEI. This was the final
junior match ever for Bailey as he will be leaving
for college next week in Tennessee. For LaCap it was
the icing on the cake after a strong showing at the
U16 Outdoor Nationals two weeks earlier in
Mississauga, Ontario.
Congratulations to Sean and Chad on this tremendous
accomplishment!
Tennis Manitoba
Open Tour
Canada
Games
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Team Manitoba Earns 5th Place Finish at Canada Games
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Photo: B Waschuk
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| Team Manitoba
coach Peter Otto (pictured left to right)
with Alexia Cholakis and Igal Mostkov. |
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Wed Aug 19'09 |
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Winnipeg,
MB (TM) – Manitoba’s Canada Games team defeated Nova
Scotia 4-3 to capture 5th in the team event in
Prince Edward Island. After splitting the first six
matches, the tie was decided with a victory in Mixed
Doubles by Alexia Cholakis and Igal Mostkov.
Manitoba earned a place in the 5/6 final after
defeating Newfoundland 6-0 in the semi-final.
The lone Manitobans alive in the individual events
are Sean Bailey and Chad LaCap, who will face
Alberta today for the Bronze Medal in Men’s Doubles.
Tennis Manitoba
Open Tour
Canada
Games
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Kildonan Captures Men’s Interclub Championship
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Wed Aug 19'09 |
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Winnipeg, MB (TM) – Kildonan Tennis Club ended the
four-year reign of the Winnipeg Lawn Tennis Club,
winning the 2009 Men’s Interclub Championship with a
2-1 victory in the final.
The winning team consists of Glen Ziprick, Chris
Wiebe, Alix Jean-Paul, Elgin Zelinski, Jan Arndt and
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Canadian Tennis Industry Association Launched
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Wed Jul 22'09 |
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Tennis ball and racquet sales throughout Canada
increased four per cent in 2008
Toronto,
ON (Tennis Canada)
Tennis Canada, Tennis Professionals Association (TPA)
and leading distributors of tennis equipment in
Canada announced Tuesday the formation of the
Canadian Tennis Industry Association (CTIA).
“The creation of a Canadian Tennis Industry
Association is long overdue for the benefit of
tennis in Canada,” said Michael S. Downey, president
and chief executive officer, Tennis Canada. “After
learning from the successful association in the
United Sates over the past few years, we are
optimistic that the joining of tennis leaders within
or country will strengthen our sport.”
Initial membership consists of major Canadian
distributors for balls and racquets including
Wilson, Dunlop, Head-Penn, Prince, Babolat, and
Yonex, in partnership with Tennis Canada and the TPA.
The association plans on expanding membership over
time to include various key partners with mutual
objectives.
The group will meet formally on a regular basis with
a mandate to maximize strategies and resources to
grow the game and optimize retail experience. A key
component to deliver this mandate includes
commissioning and assessing tennis-specific consumer
research.
The CTIA distributors have agreed to share sales
shipment data to help measure the health of the
game. Wholesale tennis ball sales rose 4.5 per cent
and racquet sales grew 3.9 per cent in Canada during
2008. Tennis racquet and ball sales trends are
regarded as reliable indicators of overall
participation and health of the game and thus key
metrics for the group to track.
“On behalf of all of the tennis equipment
distributors involved with the CTIA, I believe this
is a great step towards stimulating growth in tennis
throughout Canada,” said Doug Coombs, Business
Racquet Sports, Amer Sports Canada, who represents
Wilson. “While we are competitors in the tennis
marketplace, we also share a love for the sport and
the desire to see more people participate on a
regular basis.”
“The Tennis Professionals Association represents
more than 2,000 tennis professionals, coaches and
certified instructors in Canada who greatly
contribute to the well being of our sport,” said Ari
Novick, director, coaching and TPA. “We are pleased
to join in the new association as we collectively
work together to grow tennis in Canada.”
These statistics, combined with other consumer
research findings support that tennis in Canada is a
growing, healthy sport.
About Tennis Canada
Founded in 1890, Tennis Canada is a non-profit,
national sport association responsible for leading
the growth, promotion and showcasing of tennis in
Canada. Tennis Canada owns and operates two of the
premier events on the ATP and Sony Ericsson WTA
Tours; Rogers Cup men’s and women’s events that
rotate annually between Rexall Centre in Toronto and
Uniprix Stadium in Montreal. In addition, Tennis
Canada owns and operates six professional ITF
sanctioned events and financially supports six other
professional tournaments in Canada. Tennis Canada
operates national training centres at the Centre of
Excellence in Toronto and at Uniprix Stadium in
Montreal. Tennis Canada is a proud member of the
International Tennis Federation, the Canadian
Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympics
Committee and the International Wheelchair Tennis
Association, and serves to administer, sponsor and
select the teams for Davis Cup, Fed Cup, the Olympic
Games and all wheelchair, junior and senior national
teams. Tennis Canada invests its surplus into tennis
development. For more information on Tennis Canada
please visit our Web site at:
www.tenniscanada.com.
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Feast, famine
for tennis team - Big wins, big losses at Summer Games
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Photo: B Waschuk
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| Victoria Park
tennis venue in Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island |
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Mon Aug 17'09 (Results
update Aug 19) |
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Winnipeg, MB (Daniel
Falloon,
Winnipeg Free Press) – Manitoba's tennis team was
on both sides of dominating performances at the Canada
Games on Sunday in P.E.I.
After taking five of six matches from Team Saskatchewan,
the tables were turned against Team B.C., who won five
of six against the 'Tobans.
The duo that prevented the sweep, men's doubles team
Sean Bailey and Chad Lacap, won both their matches.
After downing Saskatchewan's Quin Pon and Jonathan Waslen
2-0 (6-1, 6-1), the pair took down Riaan du Toit/Justin
Alexander Guay 2-0 (6-2, 7-6).
"I told them you don't have to win for the team," said
head coach Peter Otto. "It's too bad you don't have
to fight for the team, but play for yourselves. But
they stepped it up and they have a good chance of winning
the whole thing."
Even though Manitoba had already lost the series with
B.C. when they took the court, Bailey, 17, said that
he and Lacap, 16, tried to regain some of the province's
swagger.
"Going into the match we were going, 'oh, our team has
lost,' but 'Toba pride, we gotta win this one," said
Bailey.
Bailey and Lacap fell behind 5-2 in the second set,
but fought back in some hotly contested games to win
the match.
"We lost about five games in deuce just because our
opponents made some good shots or we screwed it up,"
said Bailey.
"Our teammates started cheering a little bit louder,
so they really got us back into it. They were being
pretty rowdy. Not disrespectful, but it's good to have
them on our side."
The pair were put together for the 2007 Western Canada
Games, but haven't been teamed together since. However,
Bailey and Lacap have practised together for about five
years, which helps ease the transition.
"We're starting to get some good bonding and we're starting
to click," said Bailey. "We know each other really well,
we're really good friends."
Each brings different skills to the court, which Bailey
said could make them a dangerous team going forward
this week.
"I would say my strength is my serve, and Chad's just
got a wicked forehand, so it gives us some good momentum
coming towards the net."How Manitoba did...
Men's Singles
Igal Mostkov (Man.) def. Jordan Christiansen (Sask.)
2-0 (7-5, 7-6)
Eric Yee (Sask.) def. Muzeen Ismath (Man.) 2-0 (6-0,
6-1)
Nikolai Simon Haessig (B.C.) def. Muzeen Ismath (Man.)
2-0 (6-1, 6-0)
Filip Peliwo (B.C.) def. Igal Mostkov (Man.) 2-0 (6-2,
6-4)
Women's Singles
Alexia Cholakis (Man.) def. Fiona Elizabeth Conlon (Sask.)
2-0 (6-1, 6-1)
Evann Waschuk (Man.) def. Lisa Zhao (Sask.) 2-0 (6-4,
6-3)
Khristina Blajkevitch (B.C.) def. Evann Waschuk (Man.)
2-0 (6-0, 6-0)
Saroop Dhatt (B.C.) def. Alexia Cholakis (Man.) 2-1
(6-1, 5-7, 10-4)
Men's Doubles
Sean Bailey/Chad Lacap (Man.) def. Quin Pon/Jonathan
Waslen (Sask.) 2-0 (6-1, 6-1)
Sean Bailey/Chad Lacap (Man.) def. Riaan du Toit/Justin
Alexander Guay (B.C.) 2-0 (6-2, 7-6)
Women's Doubles
Clarissa Chen/Erika Fridrik (Man.) def. Kim Hartwig/Kendall
Pon (Sask.) 2-0 (6-4, 6-4)
Alejandra Ederica/Madison Belle Shoemaker (B.C.) def.
Clarissa Chen/Erika Fridrik (Man.) 2-0 (6-3, 6-1)
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition
August 17, 2009 C4
August 17th results
update
Manitoba 6 PEI 0
Men's Singles: Igal Mostlov won 6-4, 6-3
Men's Singles: Muzeen Ismath won 7-5, 6-4
Ladies Singles: Alexia Cholakis won 6-3, 6-4
Ladies Singles: Evann Waschuk won 6-4, 6-1
Men's Doubles: Chad Lacap and Sean Bailey won 6-2, 6-2
Ladies Doubles: Clarissa Chan and Erika Fridrik won
6-0, 6-3
Ontario 6 Manitoba 0
Men's Singles: Igal Mostlov lost 0-6, 1-6
Men's Singles: Muzeen Ismath lost 3-6, 5-7
Ladies Singles: Alexia Cholakis lost 0-6, 2-6
Ladies Singles: Evann Waschuk lost 0-6, 0-6
Men's Doubles: Chad Lacap and Sean Bailey lost 6-7,
1-6
Ladies Doubles: Clarissa Chan and Erika Fridrik lost
1-6, 1-6
For additional results
click here
See also...
Canada
Games
Tennis
Manitoba Junior Tour
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Canada Games
Team Set to Compete in PEI
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Fri Aug 7'09 |
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Winnipeg, MB (TM) – Manitoba’s top juniors will be
representing our province at the 2009 Canada Summer
Games in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island August
15-22. Under the guidance of Coach, Peter Otto, and
Manager, Kyla McNicol, the following players will compete
against teams from every province and territory across
Canada:
Women’s Singles: Evann Waschuk & Alexia Cholakis
Women’s Doubles: Clarissa Chen & Erika Fridrik
Men’s Singles: Igal Mostkov & Muzeen Ismath
Men’s Doubles: Sean Bailey & Chad LaCap
The format for the tennis competition at the Canada
Games is a round-robin with the provinces split into
2 pools as follows:
Pool A
1. Ontario
2. BC
3. Manitoba
4. Saskatchewan
5. PEI
6. NWT |
Pool B
1. Quebec
2. Alberta
3. Nova Scotia
4. Newfoundland
5. New Brunswick
6. Yukon |
Good luck to Team ‘Toba!
Tennis Manitoba
Open Tour
Canada
Games
See also...
Canada Games Team
Members Dominate at Kildonan
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Junior Tour Champions
Head to Nationals
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Photo: B Waschuk
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| Lea Chowdhury,
shown here at the Manitoba Junior Open, heads
to her first Canadian Junior Nationals in Mont
Tremblant, Quebec. |
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Tue Aug 4'09 |
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Winnipeg, MB (TM) – Twice
a year top juniors from Manitoba compete on the national
stage at the Canadian Junior National Tennis Championships.
Our juniors qualify based on their year round tournament
results while playing the Tennis Manitoba Junior Tour.
This summer 8 girls and 6 boys from our province are
competing in Ontario and Quebec against Canada's best
juniors. The list includes Cole and Chad LaCap, who
between them have all of the Nationals covered, with
Cole participating in the U12s and U14s and Chad taking
part in the U16s and U18s. The complete list is as follows:
U12s in Mont Tremblant, Quebec
Lea Chowdhury
Diorella Rosario
Cole LaCap
U14s in Mont Tremblant, Quebec
Alexia Cholakis
Emily Fridrik
Kylie Waschuk
Cole LaCap
Eagan Peters
U16s in Mississauga, Ontario
Anika Campeau
Evann Waschuk
Chad LaCap
Will McPherson
Igal Mostkov
U18s in Trois Rivieres, Quebec
Erika Fridrik
Muzeen Ismath
Chad LaCap.
Canadian
Junior Nationals
Tennis
Manitoba Junior Tour
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Outdoor Junior
Nationals Get Underway
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Mon Aug 3'09 |
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Toronto,
ON (Tennis Canada) – The top Canadian tennis prospects
have descended on Mont-Tremblant, Quebec and Mississauga,
Ontario this week for the U12 and U16 Rogers Junior
National Championships.
The team event was held over the weekend in Mont-Tremblant
with Ontario and Quebec showing their supremacy by sweeping
the medal podium. The individual event begins Monday
with the first round of preliminary matches which will
determine the final boys and girls singles flights.
The U16 Rogers Junior National Championships features
a field deep in talent including this year’s U16 indoor
champions Damien David (L’Assomption, QC) and Amy He
(Burlington, ON), who are the top seeds in the boys
and girls singles draw. National Training Centre participants
Edward Nguyen (Ottawa), David Vierya (Mississauga, ON),
Elisabeth Abanda (Montreal), Elianne Douglas-Miron (Ottawa)
and Laurie Gingras (Beauport, QC) will also battle for
national supremacy.
See also
Junior Tour Champions
Head to Nationals
Canadian
Junior Nationals
Tennis
Manitoba Junior Tour
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