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Odlum Brown VanOpen - 2012
Five-time Grand Slam singles winner
Martina Hingis
stole the show this year, July 28 - August 5. The retired Swiss superstar came to the West
Vancouver tourney at Hollyburn Country Club to promote a tennis fashion
line she designed with Vancouver-based apparel company Tonic.
Photo 1:
Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands won the men's singles,
beating
Sergei Bubka
of Ukraine in straight sets, 6-1, 7-5. Seeded No. 1 in the
tournament, Igor jumped from 102 in the world to 74 after Sunday's
final. Sergei eliminated three-time champion,
Dudi Sela
of Israel, earlier in the semis, 6-2, 7-5.
Photo 2:
Mallory Burdette won the women's singles event by beating fellow
American
Jessica Pegula,
6-3, 6-0. The win earned Mallory a wild card entrance into the
upcoming U.S. Open's main draw.
Photo 3: In the men's doubles final the Belgian Ruben
Bemelmans, left, and Maxime Authom fended off John Peers and John-Parrick
of Australia, 6-4, 6-2, to win the title.
Photo 4:
Julia Glushko
of Israel, left, teamed with
Olivia Rogowska
of Australia to oust
American Jacqueline Cako and Natalie Pluskota, 6-4, 5-7, for the women's
doubles crown.
Photo 5: Frank Dancevic of Niaara
Falls, Ont., the fifth seed, fell to the top-seeded Igor Sijsling in a
close match in the semis, 6-7, 6-3, 7-6. Frank and his girlfriend
enjoyed their time in Vancouver this time arround - shopping in Robson Street and
sight
seeing.
Photo 6:
The 18-year-old
North Vancouver Filip Peliwo, the winner of Wimbledon junior singles
title, was granted a wild-card entry to the tournament. Filip played
Taiwan's Jimmy Wang
in the evening feature match of the opening round of Van Open.
Filip lost 7-6, 6-0, but he showed in the first set that he can make the
transition from juniors to the pros. Next up for Filip is the U.S.
Open junior event.
Photo
7:
Martina Hingis, left,
played an exhibition match with Toronto's Sharon Fichman. The
31-year-old beat Sharon, 6-3, 6-3, while ball-girls lined up to show off Hingis' tennis wares for players and tennis fans. Sharon lost in
the second round to Monique Adamczak
of Australia,
0-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Photo 8:
Thanks to Robert
Exell, left, and Courtney for organizing the ball-crew for the tournament.
Photo
9:
Qualifying round: BC's Katerina Boiko,
the winner of the Stanley Park Open, lost in the first round of
qualifying. So did George Jecminek, the Chu brothers, Daniel and David, Alexis Prokopuik,
and Stacey Fung. However, playing against these international players
will definitely helped them with their games.
Photos by
Gerry Kripps and Mamood
Gouneili.
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