Antalya, Turkey, 18 March 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Australian groups received 4 medals, together with two gold, on the 2024 ITF Masters World Crew Championships in Turkey this week.
Glenn Busby, Michael Ford, Wayne Pascoe and Stephen Dance received the Britannia Cup, awarded to the perfect performing nation within the males’s 65+ age group, for the second consecutive yr.
Australia additionally claimed the Althea Gibson Cup because the best-performing nation within the ladies’s 70+ age group.
Captain Adrienne Avis suffered a knee harm late within the third set of her singles match within the gold medal play-off. However fortuitously, Sally Van Rensburg stepped as much as win her singles match after which mixed with Helen Worland to safe the deciding doubles rubber.
Australian groups additionally collected bronze medals within the males’s 70+ and girls’s 80+ classes.
| 2024 ITF Masters World Groups Championships Australia’s outcomes |
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| Age group | Class | Crew | Outcome |
| 65 | Males | Glenn Busby (captain, Vic), Michael Ford (Qld), Wayne Pascoe (NSW), Stephen Dance (Tas) | 1st (Gold) |
| 70 | Ladies | Adrienne Avis (captain, NSW), Sally Van Rensburg (Vic), Helen Worland (NSW), Susanne Walter (Vic) | 1st (Gold) |
| 70 | Males | Ross Orford (captain, Qld), Andew Rae (Vic), Tony Dawson (Qld), Ian Thomas (Vic) | third (Bronze) |
| 80 | Ladies | Judy Hancy (captain, Vic), Kim Blackburne (NSW), Bobbie Edwards (WA), Mary King (Vic) | third (Bronze) |
| 75 | Ladies | Kerry Ballard (captain, NSW), Judith Rodins (Qld), Margaret Clode (Vic) | 4th |
| 80 | Males | Alan Walsh (captain, NSW), Gordon Waygood (NSW), Ian Davis (NSW), Herbert Chee (NSW) | 4th |
| 75 | Males | Roger Davey (captain, SA), Rob Bickmore (SA), Peter Holst (Qld), Mike Evans (Vic) | ninth |
| 65 | Ladies | Judith Buzza (captain, Vic), Sara Goddard (NSW), Jan Vick (Qld), Sue Henning (NSW) | fifteenth |
The Australian opponents now flip their consideration to this week’s ITF Masters World Particular person Championships, that are additionally being performed within the Turkish metropolis of Antalya.
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