SEPTEMBER 2020 President Cecilie McIntyre
[email protected] Page 1 IC Dinner Cancelled. US Open Hon Sec. Angela Hart
[email protected] Page 2 US tennis and Roland Garros Vice President Russell Tills
[email protected] Page 3 News of members Hon Treasurer Chris Ronayne
[email protected] Pages 4-5 Becroft Family Link to IC Council website www.ictennis.net Page 6 Looking well back...Kathleeen Nunneley Have a look through this website and click the flags to see Pages 7-10 Continuing Trans Tasman Junior History news of the other countries. Also previous Newsletters via the NZ flag and noticeboard. Page 10 Drop Shots . Cancellation of our Annual Dinner..... Covid-19 As members know, our usual May IC AGM went ahead via Zoom and we postponed the Annual Dinner part of the evening until the country was safely in Level One. However soon after the invitations went to members some Covid-19 links were found in the community and NZ was back to Level 2, with Auckland at Level 3. This has been reduced to Level 2.5 in Auckland but even if this dropped further it is still not considered safe to have around 80 members and guests together so the committee has decided to cancel the dinner. The tennis world has been turned upside down since March, and it has been unusual to watch the greatly restricted US Open being played over the last two weeks. Well done to the organisers and players for completing this under difficult circumstances. US Open Tournament Director Stacey Allaster said “The journey for the athletes, for their support teams, for the federations and the tournament organizers that we're partners with within the sport..