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U14 Indoor National - 2011
West Vancouver, BC -
Canada's best young tennis players faced off at the Hollyburn
Country Club April 4 - 10.
It was nice to see for a change that our young players didn't have to travel far to compete in a national event.
Photo 1 (left): Alejandro Tabilo of Ontario,
sends a text message after beating
Harrison Scott
of Alberta, 7-5, 6-1, in the Boys' Singles final while his
mom, Maria and his friend, Alex Gravina, REXALL Regional Training Centre coach,
stand by.
Alejandro enjoyed a double celebration by winning the
Boys' Doubles' event earlier. He and his partner
Raheel Manji beat
Christian Lakoseljac
and Nathan Rahier, 6-1, 6-3, in the final.
Photo 2: Ontario's Nikki Carnovale, left, and Charlotte Petrick.
Charlotte beat her doubles partner, Nikki in the final, 6-3, 6-1, to
capture the Girls' Singles title.
Photo 3: Debbie
Kirkwood, Director, High Performance Tennis Canada, presents the Girls' Doubles Champion trophies to Quebec
Marie-Alexandre Leduc, left, and Marianne Gareau.
They beat Nikki Carnovale and Charlotte Petrick, 1-6, 6-3, 10-8, in the
final.
Photo 4: Eleven-year-old Larry Zhao, left, and 13-year-old Felix Fan.
Photo 5: Ten-year-old Kirsten Prelle of Alberta was the youngest
player in this year's U14 Indoor National. Kirsten beat a lot of good players and
she got five games against our Rosie Johanson,
before losing, 6-4, 6-1. Kirsten
and her 12-year-old sister, Madison, used to play in BC few years ago
before moving to Alberta.
Photo 6: BC's top players, from left to right: Stacey Fung, Cassie Chung and Adrea
Gu. Stacey stands at No.1, Andrea No. 2 and Cassie No. 4.
Photo 7:
BC players watch the finals. Front row, left to right, Scott Brooks, Jack Karp, Sam Gouneili. Second row,
Stacey Fung and her brother, Brandon. Top row, Alexandra Sigouin, Benjamin Sigouin, Neel
Phaterpekar, Jack Davis, Isaac Davies and Kiran Phaterpekar.
Photo 8: Dimitri Penchev,
BC National Training Center (NTC) head coach.
Photo 9: Tournament
referees,
from left to right: Ou Zhang, Joel Brobecker, Dave
Oullet, Lucas Palovic, Paula Oullet, Arissa Chui, Page Mackay, Rayn Koo
and Peter Coppard. Paula and Dave are a newly wed couple.
More ....
The opportunity of having this national event in our province saved our players and their parents big money:
$35,000 more or less, for 10 players, at an average $3,500 per player and one accompanied parent.
If we added the cost of
sending the coach and other related expenses, the saving would be much more!
Because some of the provinces didn't send all of their players here due
to the travel hassles and the associated costs, BC was able to send 20
players (8 boys and 12 girls) rather than the usual 10. More
opportunity for more BC players to compete and experience this national
event.
Lastly, the rest of us, including many other young
players, parents, coaches and tennis fans here in BC had the opportunity to watch
and enjoy many good quality matches.
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