Steph Hewitt And Scott Dulmage Take Convenors Cup In Toronto
by Rob Dinerman
Dateline October 25th --- Top seeds Scott Dulmage and Steph Hewitt soared to victory this past weekend at the Granite Club in Toronto, the host site as always for the Convenors Cup, an annual mixed doubles tournament that usually kicks off the Canadian doubles season. Dulmage and Hewitt went through their four matches without dropping a single game, defeating Kirsteen Burton and Jeff Anderson in the semifinals and second seeds Seanna Keating and Eric Baldwin, four-game semis winners over Caro Sambrook and Rob Nigro, in the final.
It marked the seventh time that Hewitt has won this tourney, her previous six having occurred with husband James Hewitt (currently sidelined with a major leg injury incurred in a soccer game this past summer) as her partner. Dulmage has earned this title four prior times, namely with Lolly Gillen in 1995 and with Jess DiMauro in 2005, 2006 and 2011, in the latter three cases at the final-round expense of the Hewitts. Keating and Hewitt, whose cross-court battles with each other defined many of the points of Sunday’s final, were teammates in a successful run to the World Doubles title when it was held in Toronto in May 2011, and will similarly be pairing up as the top Open-division Canadian women’s team entry in the Can-Am Cup, a biennial U.S.-vs-Canada doubles competition that will be held this coming weekend in Buffalo.
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