Tennis

Fun, Friendship and Fair Play

Tennis Activities in the last 2 months Doubles Event: We had 13 ladies participate in a fun doubles event last season. The overall winner was Tina Walton and runner up was Jeanne Craig. Congratulations ladies. Rookie Round Robin: We had a full house on Friday January 17th at the Savitar Tennis Centre, Fairmont Hotel. 20 ladies played a mini round robin tournament. The winner was Karen Bordas, in 2nd was Laura Cavanaugh and in 3rd were Stacie Price and Gemma O’Flaherty.

Rookie RR Winners: Stacie, Laura, Gemma, Karen

Thank you to Frank of Savitar for providing some goodies for the event. The ladies received goodie bags from AWA including a wine cooler, tennis balls, rosin bags and jewelry.

Team Tennis runs in the off season of WITS and LTS. We had 84 ladies sign up this season, split into two groups of Advanced and Intermediate, with six teams in each group. Over six weeks each team played each other in a round robin format with the final week being a play-off for 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd place. ADVANCE TEAM TENNIS Naughty Girls : Jennifer, Angela, Lena

1st Place: Chase My Ace Laurence Clements, Joyce Padfield, Margie Powell, Stephanie Monteith, Sue Marsh, Teresa Burgess, Suzanne Snowdon Runners Up: Naughty Girls Angela Pera, Beck Dahl, Deepel Persaud, Jennifer Houff, Laurie Dunn, Lena Barkman Qvars, Paige Coleman-Rodgriguz INTERMEDIATE TEAM TENNIS 1st Place: Splendid Pineapples Boon Eng Lim, Doris Ming, Gemma O’Flaherty, Mel Rice, Neha Yadav, Tiffany Sukay

Splendid Pineapples: Boon, Gemma, Tiffany, Doris

Runners Up: Alley Cats Jamie McGrath, Alice Clark-Platts, Denise Burchette, Linda Shearer, Sayuri Akagi, Stacie Price, Teresa Padgett Girls Night Out: We had a full house for GNO in November to celebrate Thanksgiving at the Hyatt Hotel on Scotts Road with Coach James from Savitar. All enjoyed some fun tennis drills, lots of yummy food and funky music, all washed down with free flow bubbles.