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BC 2008 Top 10 Players
Here are
BC's top 10 tennis players as of October 31:
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Men's Rankings
The No. 1 player in BC for the second straight year is
Henry Choi.
Henry, a pro at Van Lawn Tennis Club, is on the lookout for
junior players with potential, to help them reach to the top. He
coaches and travels with Rebecca Marino of Vancouver to Junior Grand
Slam events. The17-year-old Rebecca reached the quarterfinals of
the Vancouver Open this year.
Graeme Kassautzki
was the number one player in both 2005 and 2006, and
Jeremy Salvo is a talented lefty with
a good feel for touch shots. Patrick Flint and
Nick Coutts are both from Victoria. They spent last winter in Australia playing on the pro circuit.
Geoffrey Hernandez is a Houston native who moved to
BC two years ago, but intends to accepts tennis scholarship offer to go to
school back in the State.
Justin Kates
is finishing law school. Max Brown
at No. 11 just missed the list.
Women's Rankings
The top rank this year belongs to
Trudie du Toit. Trudie reached the Stanley Park
Open final where she lost to American Ruxandra Dumitrescu in a close
match. Trudie went to the University of Oregon in September to
study and to play for their "A" division team.
A new addition to the Top 10 players in BC is the 15-year-old
Anett Ferenczi-Bako from Hungary who came here
in 2008.
Thirteen-year-old
Tracy Dong
of Surrey was the most improved female player of this season. Tracy
continues to climb in the rankings.
Vivian Li
is the winner of the Women's 45 Van Lawn Masters Indoor Singles
Championships, while
Kelly McNabney
is
the winner, along Max Brown, of the Stanley Park Open Mixed Doubles event.
Stefi Gjine, last year's top player,
did not play the summer series this season, so isn't ranked here. She joined the top NCAA Division University of North Carolina tennis team
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