Newsletter
FALL 2010
UNIONVILLE TENNIS CLUB
P.O. Box 64619…4721 Hwy #7 East
Unionville ON ,L3R 0M9, (905)470-7059
www.unionvilletennisclub.com
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The great efforts made by the
Executive Team along with the
fabulous weather made the 2010
UTC Tennis Season one to be
enjoyed by all. Our tennis nets
came down on Oct 16, 2010, so
the UTC clubhouse is now
officially closed for the 2010
season.
2010 was full of activities as in
other years. I am very grateful
for the work completed by the
UTC Executive and volunteers
who made 2010 as successful
as it was in prior years. It is the
time and efforts put in by all of
these volunteers that has made
this club as vibrant as it has
been over the many, many years
of its existence. Thanks to Sally
Coles and Mark Fainblum, our
tennis pros, who supported our
tennis lessons and camps
throughout the season. Thank
you to all of our monitors and of
course Zac Manankil, our
Clubhouse Manager for an
amazing season.
Some of the achievements for
the 2010 season:
Inside this issue:
This is the second year that UTC
has utilized on-line membership
and it has been another highly
successful year. We ended up
with 1140 members just under our
1,200 limit in membership.
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Membership
& Social
Updates
Competitive
News
5
Tournament
7-8
Wed Night Round Robin: Thanks
to Mike Gannon for volunteering
his time to run this program. We
had about 90 members for
recreational, social tennis which is
a fabulous turn-out.
Recreation
Social Events: There were 7
social events which occured
throughout 2010 for both adults
and juniors.
& more
Tournaments: 3 OTA
tournaments for juniors and adults
plus UTC’s Clay Court Mixed
Doubles Challenge, UTC’s
Wimbledon’s singles, in addition
we had our year-end club
championships for singles,
doubles and mixed doubles.
Junior Spring Lessons: 90
junior members participated
Adult spring lessons: 35 adult
members were involved
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Updates
9
Update
Courts &
Communication
News
Junior News
Year-end
Party & AGM
Membership: We continued
with another year of on-line
membership.
Unionville Tennis Club
President’s
Message
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President’s Message …continued
This year UTC put together a sub-committee to find new
volunteers for next year. The subcommittee members involved
with recruiting volunteers for UTC are Lorraine Eaglesham, Gord
Llewellyn, and Heidi Strassguertl. We are pleased to announce
the following UTC Board of Directors for the 2011 tennis season:
UTC Board of Directors
It gives me great pleasure to welcome the following into their
new roles at UTC.
Gord Llewellyn – Vice President/Monitors Director
Stella Spisak – Membership Director
Sherwin Mendes – Secretary
Treasurer – Laurie Tarascio
Recreational Director – Aleen Roecken
Social Director – Nancy Lin
Junior Development Director – Maria Budiono
Courts/Clubhouse Director – Open Position
Communications Director – Mike Gannon
Continuing in their positions are:
“ I play each point like
my life depends upon it”
…Rafael Nadal
Heidi Strassguertl – President
Lorraine Eaglesham – Competitive Director
Elisabeth Tan – Courts Availability Director
Michael Roecken – Tournament Director
Stepping down form their positions:
David Spisak – Vice President and Courts/Clubhouse Director
After 7 years of service, I would like to give a huge thank you to
David Spisak for all his hard work over these years. Not only did
he maintain the Vice-President role, he was also instrumental in
hiring and training our monitors and keeping our courts and
clubhouse in tip top shape. David made many, many
contributions to Unionville Tennis Club over his 7 years.
Here are just some of the examples:
1) Resurfaced 6 Hard courts during his tenure and laser-grading of
clay courts plus improved the sprinkler system.
2) Added on a deck, so that our tennis viewers can watch tennis
being played on courts 1-4 and on courts 5 to 7.
3) Renovated the existing clubhouse rather than pursue a new
clubhouse – to which he oversaw all the changes and upgrades
including new kitchen, new bathroom fixtures, new windows, new
flooring, new roof and painting.
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President’s Message …continued
David was very good at taking action to foresee what needed to be done and then
following through with it. Thanks so much David.
Marg Esaw – Secretary
I am very thankful for all her assistance on maintaining the Executive Minutes and
Agendas, setting up our Executive Meetings and helping in other events such as
Opening Day and the Year-End Parties over the last 2 years. Marg’s positive and
cheery attitude will be greatly missed.
Alison Horne - Treasurer
Alison Horne accurately maintained our financial books over 8 years of service to
Unionville Tennis Club. She was the key player in ensuring all of our financial books
were up to date, UTC’s spending was on track, and paying all of the club’s bills on
time. Thank-you Alison.
Trish O’Brien – Social Director
Throughout the 2 years that Trish acted as Social Director, she did an excellent job
running all our Friday Night Socials and with great turnouts might I add. In addition,
she organized both the Opening Day and Yearend/AGM parties that I know you
have all enjoyed attending. I wish you all the best.
Michael Hayward – Membership Director
Michael played a key role in maintaining our on line membership for the second year
of its existence. Michael has been very busy with his full time job to which a lot of
travelling was involved. His wife Trish O’Brien, was able to help out and the
combined efforts of these two enabled us to have membership updates and shoe
tags for all our members. Thank you both.
Ann Lowe – Recreational Director
Ann was very helpful in ensuring that we had all the volunteers in place for
Wednesday Round Robin, UTC Women’s, Men’s and Junior Ladder, Friday Mixed
House League, and Tuesday Morning Ladies House League. She also kept us up to
date on what was happening within these programs on a month to month basis.
Thanks again for your help.
Unionville Tennis Club
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President’s Message …continued
There is currently 1 open Executive position available –
Courts/Club House Director
The volunteer subcommittee is currently working on these roles and is hoping to have them filled
before the AGM in November 2010:
A brief overview of this position is:
Courts/Clubhouse Director:
Oversees the maintenance of our courts and clubhouse with the assistance of the Club House
Manager. It requires about 4/5 hours per month of your time.
If you are interested in volunteering for this position or just volunteering your time to a great
tennis club, please do not hesitate to send an email to [email protected].
And last but not least, hopefully, we will see many of you at our Year-End Party at Richmond Hill
Country Club on November 21st , 2010 were dinner, tennis, trophies , awards ceremonies and
our Annual General Meeting will be presented. See flyer on page 12 for more details.
On behalf of the entire UTC Executive Team, we wish you, your family and friends a fabulous fall
and winter season and we look forward to seeing you back on UTC courts in the spring of 2011.
Heidi Strassguertl
President
Unionville Tennis Club
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Fall 2010
Membership Update
In 2010, UTC continued to be one of the
largest community clubs in Ontario with
1140 members with the following
approximate break down:
UPCOMING EVENTS
NETS DOWN…OCT 16
YEAR-END PARTY
AND
684 Adults (60%)
57 Young Adults (5%)
399 Juniors (35%)
AGM…NOV 21: 3:30-9:30
RICHMOND HILL COUNTRY
Our membership was slightly down from the
prior year with 1187 members.
CLUB
Also, our online membership registration
was completed by about 80 to 85% of our
members this year. In 2011, we are looking
for ways to bring this number up to closer to
100% for online membership registration.
Michael Hayward
Membership Director
SOCIAL NEWS
Thank you so much to all the volunteers
and UTC players who came out to support
us for yet another summer of fabulous
Friday Night Social Round Robins! We all
had a blast while enjoying the perfect
combination of fun, friendship, food, and
tennis. Once again the gods were smiling
on us and we had PERFECT sunny warm
weather for all 4 evenings, for the second
year in a row. The first 3 evenings were
extremely well attended with over 40 tennis
players participating. The final RR was on a
holiday weekend therefore it was less busy,
but that was fine as it meant more food for
the rest of us ! Thank you again and hope to
see you next summer !
Aleen power!!!
Trish Obrien
Social Director
Trish & Michael
Mixed Doubles Action
Unionville Tennis Club
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Competitive News
Inter-County Team Results
+55 League
Captained by Irv Swieca - 1st place!!!
Irv and his team earned an invitation to the
Rexall Centre. On Saturday, September
11, they fought a tremendously close battle
for the Champions title against Brampton
Tennis Club. They were declared the
victors by winning 2 matches to 1. Alison
Horne and Elsie Wong even got to play on
Centre Court. Well done team!!!
A North: Captained by Deb Inrig – 6th
place.
B North: Captained by Chris D’Mello – 2nd
place.
B York: Captained by Alexis Martin – 2nd
place.
C York: Captained by Mark Wakefield – 4th
place.
C North: Captained by Lorraine
Eaglesham
Thanks to all Inter-County players for a
great tennis season. Have a great winter
and I do hope to see you all back next
spring competing for those Inter-County
titles.
Well done, UTC!
Lorraine Eaglesham
Competitive Director
Ladies Daytime League
Majors: Captained by Barb Peters – 8th
place.
A East: Captained by Gisela Andrews –
3rd place.
B Centre: Captained by Karen Eluck and
Lorraine Eaglesham – 2nd place.
C East: Captained by Felicity Monaco
and Robin Lapointe – 3rd place.
.
Mixed Evening League
Majors: Captained by Michael Lue – 4th
place.
Club Tourney Singles action
A East: Captained by Clayton Madokoro
– 6th place.
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Fall 2010
UTC Tournaments Update
Year End Club Championships
First off we would like to say thank you to all those who took part this year in the various tournaments
held at the club. The participation and support was excellent and it was a very successful year. We
look forward to seeing everyone out again next year.
With that, the tournament season concluded with our annual Year End Club Tournaments in the
Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles categories. We had an excellent turn out for all the draws and
some great tennis was played over the 3 weekends. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the
friendly competition. Extended congratulations go out to our champions and finalists of each draw,
who will receive their prizes at the Year End Party:
Singles:
Under-12:
Under-16:
Women's:
Men's A:
Men's B:
Men's C:
Champion: Krishna Santhakumar
Champion: Jack Lin
Champion: Regina Doebel
Champion: Kevin Mok
Champion: Andy Wan
Champion: Bill Chan
Regina
Kevin
&
&
Kathy
Robert
Andy & Vlad
Doubles:
Men's A:
Men's B/C:
Finalist: Kyle Fernandes
Finalist: Kathy Rintoul
Finalist:Robert Shahmelikian
Finalist: Vlad Maevskiy
Finalist: Brian Kum
Bill & Brian
Champions: Kevin Mok / Joe Zeng
Finalists: Zane Hussain / Asad Hussain
Champions: Lavin Leucea / Michael Roecken
Finalists: Ilias Jatz / David Hsieh
Zane
Asad
Kevin
Joe
Unionville Tennis Club
Lavin
Michael
Ilias
David
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Doubles:
Women's:
Champions: Deb Inrig / Kathy Rintoul
Finalists: Nancy Lin / Elisabeth Tan
Mixed Doubles:
Mixed A:
Champions: Natalia Koroleva / Sergey Borodulin
Finalists: Lan Ma/Steve Wong
Mixed B:
Champions: Nancy Lin / Anthony Tan
Finalists: Vie Leucea / Lavin Leucea
Mixed C:
Champions: Florence Lau / Bill Chan
Finalists: Alison Horne / Irv Swieca
Natalia
&
Sergey
Steve
&
Lan
Anthony, Nancy, Vie, Lavin
Irv, Alison, Florence., Bill
Aleen and Michael Roecken
Tournament Directors
Unionville Tennis Club
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Wednesday Night Round Robin( Mike
Gannon)
RECREATION NEWS
UTC Recreation is ending on another
successful note this year.
Men's Ladder (Rajeev Seth) Another
successful year with 69 players signed up,
and approximately 12 teams.
Top 3:
1-Florin Prunoiu
2-Raj Maraj 3-Anthony Tan
Ladies Ladder (Kathy Moran)
The Unionville Ladies Ladder had another
successful year. There were 24 players
participating this season which ran from
May 1 to September 6. Nine new
members joined the ladder this year.
Congratulations to Nancy Lin who ended
the ladder season with 51 points. She was
followed closely by Joyce Lui with
45 points and Elisabeth Tan with 30
points.
All the ladies who participated deserve a
pat on the back – it can be
challenging to get your matches played
during the busy summer months. Well
done!
Friday morning mixed round robin (Josie
Rochon)
This round robin was a tremendous
success this year, with over forty gals and
gents enjoying some fun tennis since
early May. A big thank you to all from
Josie, for the dedication and the great
matches and laughs all round. She is
looking forward to next Spring but in the
meantime, it is business as usual on
Friday mornings.
Tuesday morning round robin (Gayle
Eisenberg) was also well attended this
year. It was a repeat of a popular event,
with many regulars returning.
Another great year of Wednesday evening
round robin tennis is almost over. The
program was oversubscribed at the
beginning of the season but quickly settled
down with about 90 members. The weather
of course has been better than usual with
only a couple of washouts so far the whole
season. The last round robin was held on
October 13th just before the club nets came
down on the 16th and the year end round
robin social will follow on Wednesday the
20th.
The format tried as a pilot last year was
continued this year, by popular demand,
with 2 sessions taking 6 courts each from
6:30pm until 8:00pm and 8:00pm until
9:30pm. The first session used prearranged, randomly selected, foursomes
(with a little tweaking from Mike), and the
second session used the winners and
losers moving up and down respectively
approach. Our thanks to Richard Cheung
and Julie Stark for looking after the second
session.
A survey was conducted among all the
round robin players recently to learn about
any concerns and suggestions for
improvement. Overall, members were very
happy with the program as is. Enough
people however commented on the early
start for the first session as being a problem
for them that we will look at options for the
start time next year. On a personal note, I
have really enjoyed meeting and playing
with you all. Enjoy the rest of the season!
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Wed. Round Robin
Tennis Stars !
Unionville Tennis Club
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COURTS UPDATE
The official Nets-down day is scheduled for
Saturday, October 16th.
We would like to encourage volunteers to
come out and help with this activity as more
hands make the work easier.
Courts 8 & 9, originally scheduled to be
resurfaced the second week in September,
will be resurfaced starting on Tuesday,
October 12, weather permitting. These
courts will be unavailable for the remainder
of the season.
We have concluded upgrades to the clay
court sprinkler systems, replacing the last of
the original sprinkler heads and raising all
the sprinkler heads off the ground. These
changes should prevent the clay granules
from getting stuck in the sprinkler
mechanism and provide for unrestricted
rotation of the sprinkler heads resulting in an
improved distribution of water on the court
system.
David Spisak
Vice President
COURTS AVAILABILITY UPDATE
We have had a busy season, but with the
new advanced booking for Monday
evenings, more members were able to have
a time slot where they do not have to wait for
a court.
It is always recommended to watch the
email blasts from our Communication
Director and to check the updated monthly
calendar to find out the best chances to get
a court.
We welcome any input from all members to
try to improve random play.
Unionville Tennis Club
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Watch for updates re. The Angus Glen
Indoor Tennis Facility: construction has
started☺
In the near future we will have Public
Meetings, where input from tennis fans will
be welcomed.
Hopefully you had a great tennis season!!!
Elisabeth Tan
Courts Director
COMMUNICATIONS UPDATE:
It is our mandate to ensure that UTC
members are ultra-informed with respect to
club activities. You are encouraged to visit
the website, which is constantly being
updated to reflect our variety of tennis
offerings. For example, our Tournaments
Directors, Michael and Aleen initiated the
on-line posting of club tourney draws this
year, which allowed participants to track
their opponents as well as confirm their
game times.
If you missed something on the website,
email blasts were frequently sent out to
highlight important events. We tried, for
example, to inform you when weekend court
times were reduced due to Tournaments, so
that you could better plan your own games.
Of 1140 members, 920 subscribe to these
blasts. Your next major News Flash will be
promoting Early Bird Registration in
2011.Don’t miss it! Go to the website:
http://unionvilletennisclub.com/
to subscribe!
Cheers,
Gordon Llewellyn
Communications Director
Fall 2010
JUNIOR NEWS
Junior Inter-County League Update:
UTC 1: junior team finished with 19
points, placing in 9th place.
UTC 2: junior team finished with 29
points, placing in 7th place.
10 teams participated in the Boys East
Division, with Richmond Hill winning
first place. Defaults were a problem
this year, and UTC will be looking to
improve on this for next year.
Junior Ladder:
Only 1 match took place, with Krishna
Santhakumar in first place, and Tyler
Babin in second place.
I'm waiting for the wheelbarrow!
Sherwin Mendes
Junior Director
Two lovely ladies who will be missed on
the Executive but we’ll see them on the
court!
NETS DOWN
A small, but enthusiastic crew did
the job in record time this year.
Thankyou!
Alison Horne
Treasurer
Marg Esaw
Secretary
They call this work???
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