Wheelchair Replace: Shaw Defends Georgia Title for First Win of 2025

After opening up the yr with back-to-back finals, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Rob Shaw obtained his palms on his first title of 2025. The victory got here in his fourth event of the yr as Shaw claimed the quad doubles crown on the Georgia Open in early March. 

Right here is the month-to-month wheelchair tennis replace. 

Shaw took a month off after his January journey to Australia and seemed refreshed in Rome, Georgia. He and Aussie companion Heath Davidson defeated Francisco Cayulef and Gonzalo Enrique Lazarte in straight units within the semifinals after which edged out Ahmet Kaplan and Andy Lapthorne 3-6, 6-2, 10-7 to take the title. 

It was a profitable title defence for Shaw and Davidson, who received the ITF 1 Collection occasion final yr. The win a yr in the past was additionally the primary of the season for the Canadian, who went on to win 5 quad doubles titles in 2024. Shaw is now as much as 29 profession ITF quad doubles titles. 

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The next week on the ITF Tremendous Collection occasion in Baton Rouge, Florida, Shaw reached the quad doubles semifinals with David Wagner however misplaced within the semifinals to Davidson and Niels Vink. 

Mitch McIntyre additionally reached a quad doubles semifinal on the ITF 2 Collection occasion in Bolton, United Kingdom. He and companion Andrew Bogdanov got here agonizingly near reaching the ultimate, shedding 11-9 within the match tiebreak within the semis to Tomas Masaryk and Diego Perez. 

Venos Hits Profession-Excessive Rating 

Thomas Venos obtained his 2025 season underway in March, competing within the males’s division on the identical two occasions as Shaw.  

On the Tremendous Collection occasion in Baton Rouge, Venos defeated Maximus Wong within the first spherical earlier than bowing out in spherical two to Argentina’s Gustavo Fernandez. Even in defeat, Venos’ second-round look on the second-highest degree of ITF wheelchair tennis tournaments (beneath the Grand Slams) allowed him to climb to No. 36 within the rankings, his new career-high. 

The primary ITF occasion on Canadian soil, the Premier Racquet Membership Wheelchair Basic, will happen subsequent month in Markham, ON. 

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