Marc Pepin
Marc Pepin (born May 28, 1958 in Exeter, Ontario) is a Canadian sports person. He’s the only Canadian tennis player to be a No. 1 ranked senior in five consecutive decades.[1] He’s won 13 International Tennis Federation Senior titles, a European Senior mixed doubles crown, Three Senior World Champion titles, five Senior Canadian National titles, 23 Senior Atlantic Canada titles.[2]
Marc has represented Canada on the international level in team competitions [3] and has competed against some of the world’s best players including Dick Stockton, a former Wimbledon and French Open semi-finalist.[4]
In 2008 he wrote a book on tennis in New Brunswick called 'Slice and Dice, Tennis in NB Since 1975' which has since been added to the legislative library of New Brunswick.[5] He has given speeches in 2013[6] & 2015[7] on his NB Tennis Book, Slice and Dice to encourage tennis in NB. Pepin was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.[8]
Pepin achieved the No.1 world senior ITF ranking in mixed doubles for the first time in his career Nov. 21st, 2016. [9]
References
- ↑ http://www.honouredmembers.com/pepin-marc/
- ↑ http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2015.02.0138.html
- ↑ http://www.tenniscanada.com/canadians-aim-for-top-spots-in-doubles-at-itf-seniors-world-individual-championships/
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/marc-pepin-excited-for-n-b-sports-hall-of-fame-induction-1.3092993
- ↑ http://leg-horizon.gnb.ca/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=36799
- ↑ http://www.amnb.ca/events/new-brunswick-sports-hall-of-fame/
- ↑ https://visitamuseum.org/2015/07/23/tennis-champ-marc-pepin-will-be-giving-a-public-talk-at-the-nb-sports-hall-of-fame/
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/everett-sanipass-john-leblanc-named-to-n-b-sports-hall-of-fame-1.2970952
- ↑ http://www.itftennis.com/seniors/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=100019341