Tennis Seniors Victoria Newsletter ABN 17 737 124 493 Reg No A14023F May 2014 Tennis Seniors Victoria Glenn Busby ! Glenn Busby has convincingly beaten the American Dan Waldman to win the 55+ Mens Singles final the the ITF World Championships in Florida. www.tennisseniorsvictoria.com.au Making Tennis Fun! Email: [email protected] Website: www.tennisseniorsvictoria.com.au Page 1! Tennis Seniors Victoria Newsletter ABN 17 737 124 493 Reg No A14023F May 2014 www.yarrawongamulwala.com.au or call ! 1800 062 260 for accommodation options. The” Yarrawonga model”, as mentioned ! above, has illustrated the value of working President’s with Tennis Victoria. They have the resources and the contacts - we have the Report experience and, with a few volunteers, we can make a winning team. ! ! ! I would like to congratulate our social ! tournament sub-committee of Dick, Dee, ! Nina and Lorraine on great successes at ! both Kooyong and at Doncaster, with record As we go to press, the closing date numbers, plenty of tennis and socializing! (Wednesday 21 May) is rapidly At the risk of sounding like a broken record, approaching for our Victorian I have to make the comment that volunteers are essential if we are to continue with both Championships at Dingley Tennis social and championship events for our Club. This event has been reinstated members. We recently advised Tennis on the Queen’s Birthday weekend. Seniors Australia that we are unable, at this We are hoping for a fine weekend! I time, to commit to the running of the encourage you all to enter and join National Championships and Teams events the fun! There are IPIN events but in January 2016. TSA has published that also non-IPIN for Combined Doubles. Victoria is not able to host/manage the Please read Graeme’s note about the National Championships, however, our event further on in this newsletter. advice to TSA was that we were still ! considering our options. Currently, not only Tennis Seniors Victoria with Tennis are we lacking volunteers to run such an Victoria are delighted to confirm the dates event but many of the country centres have for the inaugural TSV Grasscourt other commitments and have been rather Championships taking place later this year critical of the mid- January timing of the from Monday 24 November to Friday 28th event. November 2014 at the picturesque ! Yarrawonga Lawn Tennis Club. We are urgently seeking volunteers to assist ! the TSV Committee in organizing and Take a week off and experience everything running our major tournaments. We would this beautiful region has to offer including appreciate if you, the members, could Murray River cruises, local wineries as well contact us if you feel that you can be of as some great country tennis on some of assistance. We need a larger base of the best natural grass courts in Victoria. volunteers so that we can plan for future The event is open to all players aged 35+ events. Our future depends on all of our and will include both IPIN and Non-IPIN members working together. categories in an ITF Seniors Grade 2 ! tournament as well as plenty of My email is [email protected] or opportunities for social play. A full calendar mobile 0417350652. Angie can be of social events, social tennis, and activities contacted at [email protected] around local places to visit while in the ! region will be released soon. Entry forms will be available on our website. In the Keith Lavington. President meantime, visit ! President Email: [email protected] Website: www.tennisseniorsvictoria.com.au Page 2! Tennis Seniors Victoria Newsletter ABN 17 737 124 493 Reg No A14023F May 2014 Shoutenen, Igor Jovanovic, and Mark !Hodgson. Australia's Maureen Connolly CupTeam: Ros Balodis, Fiona Walker, Wendy !Armstrong and Helen Shea. The Cups, the winners and where the AUSTRALIAN WORLD SENIOR !Australian teams finished are as follows: TEAMS, FLORIDA, USA WOMEN: ! MAUREEN CONNOLLY CUP (55+) USA - 2014, ITF WORLD TEAMS AND AUSTRALIA 4/13 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS MARIA BUENO CUP (50+) FRANCE - AUSTRALIA WINS AUSTRIA CUP. AUSTRALIA 10/19 ! MARGARET COURT CUP (45+) USA - At the recent ITF World Team AUSTRALIA 9/14 Championships in Florida, USA, Australia YOUNG CUP (40+) GREAT BRITAIN – NO won its ninth Austria Cup competition in the AUSTRALIAN TEAM past ten years. Mike Ford, Glenn Busby, SUZANNE LENGLEN CUP (35+) FRANCE - Ron Evans and Colin Holgate are to be AUSTRALIA 14/14 congratulated for an outstanding Cup win. ! ! MEN: Australia's Austria Cup Team: Colin Holgate, AUSTRIA CUP (55+) AUSTRALIA 1/22 Ron Evans, Glenn Busby & Mike Ford. FRED PERRY CUP (50+) FRANCE - The women’s Maureen Connolly Cup (55+) AUSTRALIA 8/26 DUBLER CUP (45+) USA - AUSTRALIA 6/24 TONY TRABERT CUP (40+) AUSTRIA - AUSTRALIA 19/23 !ITALIA CUP (35+) SPAIN - AUSTRALIA 8/23 INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS GOLD MEDALS TO GLENN BUSBY, ROS !BALODIS AND LEANNE SWAYSLAND The ITF World Individual Championships were held in Florida, USA. As usual when held on the northern American continent, the Championships attract a great many competitors. All the men’s draws were was won by the very strong USA team to huge and qualifying events were held in which Australia lost in the semi-final. Our three age groups of the Men’s singles. In Australian team of Ros Balodis, Fiona all, 1538 matches were played in completing Walker, Sara Goddard and Wendy Harrison these Championships. are to be congratulated for a most creditable ! performance throughout the week. This In the Individual Championships, the team finished officially fourth. standout performance was that of Glenn ! Busby in winning the Men’s 55+ Singles. Another creditable result was that of the This performance was closely followed by Dubler Cup (45+) mens team which finished Ros Balodis and Leanne Swaysland in sixth out of 24 teams. The members of this winning the Women’s 50+ Doubles. team are Gary Nadebaum, Guido Email: [email protected] Website: www.tennisseniorsvictoria.com.au Page 3! Tennis Seniors Victoria Newsletter ABN 17 737 124 493 Reg No A14023F May 2014 ! ! ! 2014 VICTORIAN SENIORS CLAYCOURT CHAMPIONSHIPS !7-9 June 2014, Dingley Tennis Club. ! ! ! TOURNAMENT REMINDER for The 2014 Victorian Seniors Claycourt Championship. Queens Birthday Weekend at the Dingley Tennis Club Sat 7th June to Mon 9th June (Matches will only be played on Friday if numbers require) ! This is an ITF Grade 2 Tournament (IPIN Required) Entries for IPIN Events Close Wed 21st May Combined Age Doubles do NOT require an IPIN and entries for these events close on Sunday 1st June. Any volunteers during the weekend are most welcome to help with court supervision and bagging of courts. ! Please ring Graeme Heath on 0421760873 if you can help. All information for Entry, Payment and Tournament Regulations are in the ENTRY FORM which is available on the TSV website at www.tennisseniorsvictoria.com.au ! Tournament Director: Graeme Heath Email: [email protected] Website: www.tennisseniorsvictoria.com.au Page 4! Tennis Seniors Victoria Newsletter ABN 17 737 124 493 Reg No A14023F May 2014 TSV SOCIAL TOURNAMENTS 2 - Atousa Arminian ! Mixed Court 3 - Midori Recently we have had tournaments at Kooyong - Gary Stanton Lawn Tennis Club, on Sunday 23 March, and 4 - Charlie Luketic Doncaster Tennis Club on 27 April. These days - Marg Clode have been well attended and have attracted 5 - David Gibbs many new participants who are entering our - Andrea Sorrenti social tournaments for the first time. Mens 6 - Steve Lee ! Ladies 7 - Ami Larson KOOYONG LAWN TC 8 - Anne Wooley Many thanks to Cedric Mason and Kooyong - Nina Socratous Lawn Tennis Club, who allow us to use the ! grass courts for this day. We had a beautiful Our next tournament is at Glen Waverley on sunny day with over 60 players. There is Sunday 26 May. This is always a well nothing better in my opinion than playing tennis supported event and we may have to limit the with friends on a grass court. entries. Please enter by Friday, 23 May, ! preferably by email. The winners were : ! Court 16 – Ron Ong Bruce Park Tennis Club in Frankston is Courts 17/18 – Howard Bond running a full day social tournament on Sunday, Court 20 – Nalda Mannix/Jill Price 22 June. Play will commence at 10.00 and Court 21 – Mary King/Wendy Lavington lunch and afternoon tea will be provided. This Court 22 – Rosemary Davis/Kerin Tulloch is a trial to see if the model that our friends in Court 23 – Anne Woolley the North East Vets used for their Sunday Court 24 – Michelle Dabkowski tournaments works out well for us. This is the Charlie 25 – Charlie Luketic first time we have tried this, so please contact Court 26 – Peter Dabkowski Neale Price [email protected] to enter. ! It will be a great day. DONCASTER TC We may schedule more full-day social It was an amazing day to say the least - close tournaments in the future. to 70 Players on the day attended and we had ! a fantastic day. The weather was very kind to SENIORS PENNANT TENNIS us and took a lot of pressure off the organisers ! - We had a few mixed doubles happening and Tennis Victoria is offering doubles for 50+. everyone enjoyed the variety. There are two sections, with the format ! being four x 2 set rubbers, change partners A lot of work went into organising such a large for the second rubber and a 10 point tie capacity of players but with the help of Dick, breaker to decide the rubbers if the sets are Deirdre, Wendy & Keith it went as well as split. Our home courts are Ringwood expected. Tennis Club in Jubilee Park.