Tennis

Fun, Friendship and Fair Play

by Tania Lindsay-Jean

With the AWA Tennis Spring Season now behind us, we look forward to taking the summer months to recuperate and ready ourselves for the fall season. But before we do, let’s take a moment to congratulate the winners, and all the ladies that took to the courts and gave it their all in the name of friendship, fun and fairplay.

AWA Tennis Winners Circle:

AWA Doubles Cup:

1st place - Ainsley Burge and Martella Blaak

2nd place - Emma Pickering and Suzanne Bishop

3rd place - Nicole Bell and Neryn Brereton

Spring Social Doubles

1st place - Alfa Bald

2nd place - Kristine Arora

3rd place - Marline Fraticelli

Mixed Doubles

Gold Division - Nicole Kraus and Tim Kraus

Silver Division - Heidi Lindholm and Anders Lindholm

Bronze Division - Jeanne Staley and Todd Staley

Doubles Cup Winners and Finalists: Ainsley Burge, Martella Blaak, Emma Pickering, Suzanne Bishop

Congratulations ladies (and gents). There’s a much coveted AWA Tennis Bag Tag being engraved just for you right now.

Inspired by all of the enthusiasm we have witnessed on the courts, we have so much planned for the “tennis ladies”. Here’s what’s coming up: A

WA Doubles Plate: Our intermediate tennis tournament will take place over 4 days in late August on the courts of our sponsor, Savitar Tennis Center.

This Fall season we will also see the return of some past popular offerings:

Doubles Challenge: Doubles partners pair up and challenge other pairs in their pool weekly.

Tennis Clinics: Offered in beginner, intermediate and advanced levels on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at Savitar Tennis Center, our partner.

Team Tennis: Two leagues will be offered (intermediate and advanced) for this mini team competition that takes place 3 weeks before and after the Winter Holidays.

Doubles Cup Tournament Committee Marline Fraticello & Whitney Smith (missing Anita Young)

Tennis Assessments continue to be on-going monthly at Savitar Tennis Centre. Never assessed or it’s been a while? Make sure you sign up for an assessment today! Assessments are required to participate in most AWA Tennis activities.

Keep up to date with all the tennis programming, photos and news by subscribing to the AWA Tennis Newsletter (sign up available on the AWA Tennis webpage) and Facebook group (AWA Tennis).

Tennis Committee Volunteers

The AWA Tennis Committee would also like wish a fond farewell, to our volunteers leaving the little red dot this summer: Kristine Arora, Julia Maywald, Angela Pera and Natalie Vulakh

Sending an extra special thank you to Becca Meurer, who has served as our AWA Tennis Co-Chair and has also been in charge of Communications.

We are always on the lookout for new volunteers. If you like what you see and want to help make it happen, please consider volunteering. We are a fun group of tennis enthusiasts.

Tania moved to Singapore from the US with her husband and 3 children in 2014. She enjoys playing tennis and Mahjong with her AWA friends. She heads up Team Tennis for the Tennis Committee and serves on the AWA board as Sports Chair.