Tennis Seniors New South Wales P.O. Box 4803, North Rocks, NSW, 2151 Phone: 61 2 9624 7075 Website: www.tennisseniors.org.au/nsw Email: [email protected] Print Post Approved PP229550 / 00003 President: Mick Bruton Secretary: Robyn Castle Treasurer: Arthur Olsen Editor: Robyn Castle - Email: [email protected] Deadline for next Vetscore - October 23, 2020 ABN 50 206 056 964 Newsletter of Tennis Seniors New South Wales. SPRING issue Program Of Events - 2020 Dates Event / Venue Contact Phone Sep 19-20 Lake Macquarie, Cardiff Keith Williams 0412 157 757 OCT 3-4 ETDTA Seniors’ Social R/Robin Craig Edwards 0412 185 130 Oct 9-11 Kiama (Vets and Legends) Dave Lehman 0475 857 740 ear Members, Oct 16-18 Gosford District TC Chris Lees 0411 154 327 Wyong was the first Oct 31 - Nov 1 TEAMS event - Wyong Tennis Club Leoni Baldwin 0448 723 138 Nov 5-6 Hawks Nest - Myall Park Lisa Dale 0412 500 055 tournament to be Nov 14-15 Bathurst Carillon City Andrew Mitton 0419 499 467 held after our long- Dec 4-6 “Dave Matthews” - Nelson Bay Stephen Taylor 0466 154 580 D enforced break. Katrina and These are SUBJECT to CHANGE - Depending on Restrictions Leoni did a fantastic job in running the Event with the with regard to COVID 19 in New South Wales - Watch the support from volunteers. The Tennis New South Wales website courts and the complex are excellent, and it is only a one- Note: The 2020 State Championships were scheduled to be hour drive from Sydney, so I conducted at Rockdale Tennis Club October 2 - 5 however, due think it will become an extremely to the ITF Covid 19 regulations, we reluctantly had to cancel popular Event. The standard of the event. ..... Eastwood Thornleigh District Tennis Association tennis was particularly good has decided to run a Seniors’ Social Round Robin Event on especially in the Ladies Events. Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October at Pennant Hills Park. Most groups are back playing again, and if any players are Also, there are NO National Ranking tournaments offering missing from your group, please points to competitors this year, in fairness to all. encourage them to get back into tennis. Remember stats show Clubs that are listed above are having meetings in the near tennis players live 9 ½ years future to make the decision as to whether they are prepared to longer than those who do not play run their tournament. Please check with the Tournament sport. Director before making any accommodation bookings. It is a shame that our Australian Teams’ Event had to be cancelled in Canberra next January, as it is stimulated spirited discussion Renewals are now DUE our most popular Event of the over the air waves! Thanks to year. We are encouraging our Brett Haines who has initiated for 2021. country tournaments to go ahead. them and thoughtfully sends us We have not had a lot of tennis reminders. Please pay $20 by Cheque or the last few months, so to go to a Direct Deposit tournament is a great chance to MICK BRUTON BSB 032-044 ACC # 315 326 catch up with friends and it also PRESIDENT helps the various businesses that Please reference using your have had a hard time recently. Your committee has been Date of Birth or Surname meeting via Zoom, which has Canberra Teams’ Carnival - Cancelled ennis Seniors NSW have been advised that the Canberra Committee cannot run the Teams’ Carnival in January 2021, and they are seeking any other interested party. With only several months to go ..... the task seems almost insurmountable, and with restrictions changing all T the time! Current (and future) restrictions have made the event too difficult to run—with Sponsorships having dried up, as businesses have failed. Safe distancing, and daily requirements to disinfect all surfaces used by players - in both Food service areas and Toilets/Showers would add significantly to the costs. There is also the time factor. When players assemble for matches and others are exiting their court. 20 minutes must be allowed for the changeover to take place; session times would have to be shortened, which is less than ideal. Social activities such as the Opening Ceremony , State Dinners and the Presentation Dinner would not be able to go ahead since the Updated Guidelines have restricted the numbers that may attend. A decision regarding the Individual Championships has just been announced.... They will take place at Easter time in 2021, depending on Coronavirus. Dates: April 2 - 5 2021. Depending on numbers, some matches may have to be played on Thursday April 1. You may use this Link to access our site https://www.tennisseniors.org.au/ pdfs/2020/2020_09_Australian_Seniors_Individual_Championships.pdf Start training! The Victorians will be straining at the bit, as will the Queenslanders! The ITF is creating a new age category to allow players aged 30 -and-over to play in competitive, non-professional events – and battle for ranking points – around the world. In 2021, tournaments on the ITF Seniors Tour will be able to host players in the 30-and-over category for the first time. The lowest age category on the circuit until now has been 35-and- over, with the new age category allowing players to begin playing tour events five years earlier. They have also created an Over 90. emember old folks are worth a fortune—with silver in their hair, gold in their teeth, stones in their kidneys and gas in their stomachs. I have become a little older since I last saw you and a few changes have come into my life. Frankly I have become a frivolous old girl. I’m seeing five gentlemen every day. As soon Ras I wake up Will Power helps me out of bed. Then I go and see John. Next it’s time for Uncle Toby to come along followed by Billy T. They leave, and Arthur Ritis shows up and stays the rest of the day. He doesn’t like to stay in one place very long, so he takes me from joint to joint. After such a busy day I’m really tired and glad to go to bed with Johnny Walker. Whata life! Oh yes, and I’m also flirting with Al Zymer. PS The minister came to call the other day, he said that at my age I should be thinking of the hereafter. I told him - “Oh I do all the time. No matter if I’m in the lounge room, upstairs, in the kitchen or down in the cellar, I ask myself now what am I here after?” It’s a Miracle! From the Secretary’s Desk e had better believe it! o much has been The former Tournament Director and changing in the instigator of the famous Forster past four months Tournament, Bob Gorman has come a long S as your W committee has attempted way since his 80th Birthday. He could not attend his Birthday Party - being so sick that to keep Tennis “alive and he had 10 weeks in hospital, and in Palliative care! well.” He has Fibrosis of the Lung, which has no known cure. In spite of being Having been looked after by his loving wife Gail, and prevented from playing sometimes his children.... Bob needed care at home and our regular tournaments, oxygen 24/7 since he could hardly breathe - let alone talk! “out of sight” has not He would run out of breath after 15 seconds. meant “out of mind”. Well! Bob has made remarkable improvement - he is able Some tennis centres have to get “out and about” for short periods. He’s completely been prevented by their OFF all Oxygen, all medications and has been discharged Local Council from allowing even social from the Palliative Care Support team. He no longer needs tennis to be played, for Community Nursing to help him with Personal care, fear of the Virus being showering, shaving etc.....and is even able to DRIVE when transmitted. they go visiting friends and family. He has driven to South This has been the case at West Rocks and Laurieton, and he sounds just like he Forster, where court hire always did when you talk to him on the phone! He won’t has been restricted to one mind if you give him a call! hour - and only three times in a week. Players have been expected to To err is human play and then leave the premises. to put the blame on others is TENNIS! Please go ON- LINE to enter tournaments Rest in Peace Rest in Peace Be positive, Elaine Jarrett - beloved Keith Middleton - Father of wife of 94 year-old Lennie Not just a Blood Leanne and Brad, Husband passed away recently after Group of Rae - aged 89, he had a a long battle with cancer. good Life! A whole way of See Leanne’s beautiful post Life! on her FB page. Don Cosgrove 1930 - 2020 e met when we were teacher in Manual Arts. Don Stephens and District with varying 16-17. Both born in enjoyed this aspect of his life. degrees of success, like most of 1930. Don was #1 Early teaching periods were at us. I remember us winning Doubles W Junior for (I think) Coona (Coonabarabran) and later at at Nelson Bay in 2011 – later still. Western Suburbs as the family lived Normanhurst. The gorgeous Julie Our latest tennis victory was the at Concord West. Living at Randwick, appeared when he was 23. His first National Doubles (80+) in 2010 at I was #1 for Eastern Suburbs. son Philip, was born in 1961.