TENNIS in DEPTH.

A few weeks shy of her 20th birthday, Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino has been named 2010 Most Outstanding Female Player by Tennis Canada. Over the past 11 months, Marino has risen more than 80 spots in the world rankings to a career-high of 102 and is poised to break into the world’s top 100 before the end of 2010. She qualified for the main draw at the U.S. Open, she became Canada’s number-one ranked singles player, and finished the year with a record of 42-22. Much of her success came in the final three months of the 2010 tournament season when Marino captured three $50,000 International Tennis Federation titles. All of that success should earn the powerful server a spot in the main draw of the Australian Open—the first Grand Slam event on the 2011 tennis calendar.

“I’m honoured to receive this award and greatly appreciate the support I’ve received from my family, friends, Tennis Canada, Tennis BC and fans,” Marino said in a statement released by Tennis Canada. Marino becomes the first British Columbian since Vancouver’s Jana Nejedly in 2001 to earn Top Female honours and along with New Westminster’s Sonya Jeyaseelan in 2000 and Whistler’s Marjorie Blackwood (1982) is just the fourth woman from this province to be recognized with Tennis Canada’s top award.

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