2018 U10 Champions

Ontario Tennis Association

March 2019

One hundred of the best Under 10 players in the province competed, at first in round robin play, and then in elimination play. They are all amazing!

The 6th annual U10 Champions tournament was played at the Aviva Centre in Toronto the weekend of February 15 to 17. 53 boys and 46 girls competed in round robin play, followed by elimination draws, for a total of $10,000 in coaching bursaries The two champions, one boy and one girl, will each receive $3,000 worth of private coaching over a two year period, while the two finalists will receive $2,000 towards coaching over the same period. Tournament founder and benefactor Murray Rubin and his wife Roda have donated more than $100,000 to the program since its inception in 2013.

2018 U10 Champions Boys and Girls Finalists and Champions, (l to r), boys finalist Eiji Fujita, boys champion Ranak Pajpani, girls champion Nadia Lagaev, girls finalist Isabella Marton.

After three full days of competition and more than 240 matches, the final results for the Championship flight were as follows:

FUTURE STARS U9 BOYS

Result Name
Champion Deniz
Karabulut
Finalist Kyden
Ho
3 Nikita
Tulupnikov
4 Cooper
Arroyave
5 Brayden
Cerny

FUTURE STARS U9 GIRLS

Result Name
Champion Stephanie
Semenov
Finalist Polina
Tulupnikova
3 Sophia
Kosenko-Melnyk
4 Beverly
Tablang
5 Elliana
Buhagiar

FUTURE STARS U10 BOYS

Result Name
Champion Christian
Buczynski
Finalist Mark
Cherepakha
3 Luke
Basiji
4 Luka
Kostic
5 David
Perez

FUTURE STARS U10 GIRLS

Result Name
Champion (tie) Viviana
Miha
Champion (tie) Lydia
Dragan
3 Maya
Gutkowski
4 Ana
Musulin
5 Laura
Kamil

FUTURE STARS CIRCUIT U9

Result Name
Champion Adrian
Palframan
Finalist Jacob
Chodos
3 Victor
Dimitrov
4 Caleb
Dayaram
5 Victor
Balatchev

FUTURE STARS CIRCUIT U10

Result Name
Champion Steve
Vuong
Finalist Adrian
Palframan
3 Victor
Dimitrov
4 Jed
Cudney
5 Naoki
Tardif

U10 CHAMPIONS BOYS

Result Name
Champion Ranak
Pajpani
Finalist Eiji
Fujita

U10 CHAMPIONS GIRLS

Result Name
Champion Nadia
Lagaev
Finalist Isabella
Marton

2018 Future Stars Year End Awards at Ontario Racquet Club.

A huge thank you goes to Murray and Roda Rubin, David Fingold from Forest Hill Real Estate and Moncef Kechroud and the team from Scotiabank, Forest Hill branch, for their tremendous support!

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