2014 TENNIS CANADA ANNUAL REPORT 1 Table oF Contents: • 2014 key moments 3 • ABoUT TENNIs CAnADA 13 a. message from Chair and President 14 b. Board of Directors 15 c. senior management 16 d. Awards 17 • tennIs DeveloPment 20 a. Community & kids Tennis 21 b. Junior Tennis & national Training Centres 24 d. Professional Tennis & High Performance 29 e. seniors Tennis 32 f. Wheelchair Tennis 34 2 g. Coaching, tPA & officiating 36 • RogeRs CUP & CAnADIAn events 39 a. Rogers Cup -- toronto 40 b. Rogers Cup -- montreal 43 c. other Canadian events 45 • tennIs mAtteRs 51 • FACIlItIes 58 • PARtneRs 60 a. Corporate Partners 61 b. tennis Partners 63 • FInAnCe 65 2014 KEY MOMENTS 3 2014 KEY MOMENTS IN CANADIAN TENNIS JANUARY 3 vasek Pospisil reaches the Aircel Chennai open semifinals, his fourth career AtP World Tour semifinal appearance... steven Diez advances into his first career AtP Challenger final at the $75k event in noumea, new Caledonia and subsequently enters the Top 200 for the first time at world no. 196. JANUARY 4 sharon Fichman wins her first WtA title, taking home the AsB Classic doubles crown in Auckland alongside American partner maria sanchez. JANUARY 5 Daniel nestor captures his 82nd career AtP World Tour doubles title, winning the Brisbane International with Poland’s mariusz Fyrstenberg to make it 21 straight years in which he has clinched at least one AtP trophy. JANUARY 11 nestor reunites with former partner nenad Zimonjic of serbia to win his second straight title of 2014, taking home the sydney International crown. JANUARY 13 the 2014 Australian open begins with three Canadians seeded in the singles events for the first time ever – milos Raonic at no. 11 and Pospisil at no. 28 in the men’s draws, and eugenie Bouchard at no. 30 in the women’s tournament. 4 JANUARY 15 Pospisil battles through injury to oust Aussie matthew ebden on Rod laver Arena and reach the third round of a slam for the first time in his career. JANUARY 19 Francoise Abanda wins her first career professional singles title, taking home the $25k Port St. lucie Challenger title with a victory over fellow Canadian Heidi el Tabakh in the final. JANUARY 20 Bouchard defeats former world no. 1 Ana Ivanovic to advance into the Australian open semifinals, one year after falling in the qualifying tournament in melbourne. she becomes only the second Canadian in history to reach a slam semifinal, after Carling Bassett at the 1984 Us open. JANUARY 22 Bouchard’s semifinal match versus eventual champion Li Na is seen by 4.4 million Canadians on TSN, making it the most-watched Australian open match ever on Canadian television. JANUARY 24 kelly D. murumets is announced as the new president and Ceo of Tennis Canada. JANUARY 26 nestor and French partner kristina mladenovic clinch the Australian open mixed doubles title... Bianca Vanessa Andreescu captures the les Petit As title in France, one of the most prestigious U14 tournaments in the world. JANUARY 27 thanks to her incredible run at the Australian open, Bouchard rises into the Top 20 for the first time at world no. 19. FEB 9 FEBRUARY 2 missing its two highest-ranked players in Raonic and Pospisil, Canada falls 4-1 to Japan in the Davis Cup World Group first round in Tokyo. Canada’s sole victory came courtesy of Frank Dancevic on the first day of the tie. FEBRUARY 9 Canada defeats Serbia 3-1 in the Fed Cup World Group II first round at the Claude-Robillard Sports Complex in Montreal to earn a spot in April’s World group I play-offs. on the first day of the tie, Aleksandra Wozniak earns a hard-fought opening victory before Bouchard dominates in her two matches over Jovana Jaksic and Vesna Dolonc to lead Canada to victory. Following the sweep, 5 Fichman and gabriela Dabrowski fall in the dead doubles rubber. FEBRUARY 15 Fourteen-year-old Benjamin sigouin captures his first career ItF junior title, winning the Queretaro Junior Cup, a grade 4-level event in mexico. MARCH 12 Raonic nets his third career win over Andy Murray to reach the quarter-finals at the BnP Paribas Open, an AtP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells... Bouchard and Wozniak have a successful Indian Wells as well on the women’s side. Both players reach the fourth round, with Bouchard picking up a win over world No. 10 Sara Errani en route, and Wozniak rounding into form with upset victories over world no. 16 sabine lisicki and no. 22 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. MARCH 23 gloria liang wins the mitsubishi-lancer International Junior Championships, an ItF grade 1 event in manila, Philippines. It is the 17-year-old’s biggest career under-18 title. MARCH 27 Raonic plays in his second straight masters 1000 quarter-final, pushing world no. 1 Rafael nadal to three sets at the sony open in miami. MARCH 31 thanks to his successful month, Raonic climbs back into the Top 10 on the AtP rankings, tying his career-high of world no. 10. APRIL 4 Bouchard advances into her second semifinal of the season at the Premier event in Charleston after defeating two former no. 1 players in succession, venus Williams and Jelena Jankovic. APR 5 APRIL 5 Charlotte Robillard-millette and Alejandro Tabilo are crowned champions at the U18 Rogers Indoor Junior national Tennis Championships. APRIL 20 the Canadian Fed Cup team defeats Slovakia 3-1 at PePs on the Laval University campus in Quebec City to advance into the elite eight-team World group for the first time in history. Wozniak and Bouchard again lead Canada to three straight triumphs, with Wozniak opening the tie with a stirring three-set comeback victory over Top 50 player Jana Cepelova and Canada’s no. 1 player Bouchard securing her two matches. 6 APRIL 21 Raonic moves to a new career-high of world no. 9 after his quarter-final finish at the monte-Carlo masters in monaco, his first AtP World Tour masters 1000 quarter-final appearance on clay. APR 20 MAY 11 MAY 18 MAY 11 nestor wins his 84th career AtP World Tour title, moving him into sole position of third all-time behind mike and Bob Bryan. He and partner Zimonjic defeat the Bryan brothers 6-4, 6-2 to win the mutua madrid open, a masters 1000 event in spain... Fichman clinches the biggest title of her career, winning the $100k ItF Pro Circuit Challenger in Cagnes-sur-mer, France. the 23-year-old subsequently rises to a new career-high of world no. 79... el Tabakh captures the $25k Raleigh Challenger in north Carolina. MAY 17 Raonic plays in his second career Masters 1000 semifinal and pushes eventual champion Novak Djokovic to the brink in Rome. taking the opening set and pushing the second set to a tiebreaker, Raonic nearly ousts the world no. 2 before Djokovic climbs back. 7 MAY 18 nestor captures his second consecutive masters 1000 crown, as he and Zimonjic defeat Feliciano lopez and Robin Haase for the Rome title. It is nestor’s 85th AtP trophy and fourth of 2014. MAY 26 JUL 2 JUL 5 MAY 20 Brayden schnur is named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Rookie men’s Player of the Year. the former ntC member finishes up his freshman year at the University of north Carolina. MAY 24 Bouchard captures her first career WtA title, defeating Czech Karolina Pliskova for the Nuremberg Cup in Germany. she subsequently rises to a new career-high ranking of world no. 16. MAY 26 In her freshman season at Alabama, erin Routliffe captures the nCAA Division I national doubles championship with teammate 8 maya Jansen. JUNE 1 Competing in the fifth fourth-round slam match of his career, Raonic defeats marcel granollers at the French open to make his maiden major quarter-final. He ultimately loses to novak Djokovic. JUNE 5 Bouchard participates in her second consecutive slam semifinal, falling to eventual champion maria sharapova in three sets at the French open. JULY 2 Canada Day arrives a day late at the All england Club, as Bouchard and Raonic post quarter-final victories (over Angelique kerber and nick kyrgios, respectively) to advance into their first Wimbledon semifinals. For Bouchard, it is her third straight slam semifinal and she is the only woman to have made all three slam semifinals of the year so far. For Raonic, the win gives him his first-ever berth in a slam semifinal, taking it one step further from his Roland garros result a month earlier. JULY 3 the history-making continues for Bouchard as she defeats world no. 3 simona Halep in the Wimbledon semifinals to become the first Canadian to ever make a singles slam final in the open era. JULY 4 Raonic falls in his first slam semifinal, dropping a straight-sets loss to Roger Federer. JULY 5 Pospisil becomes a grand slam champion as he and partner Jack sock defeat world no. 1s Bob and mike Bryan, in five sets in the Wimbledon final. Competing in their first tournament as a pair, Pospisil and sock ousted four seeded teams en route to the trophy... Bouchard falls to kvitova in the Wimbledon final. AUG 3 JULY 7 Raonic becomes the highest-ranked Canadian singles player in history by rising to world no. 6 on the AtP World Tour rankings... Bouchard becomes no. 2 on the list by climbing to no. 7 in the WtA standings. JULY 27 Pospisil and sock remain undefeated as a duo, winning their second title together at the AtP World Tour 250 event in Atlanta to bring their winning streak to 10 matches.