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Hollyburn Junior Classic - 2011
Above photos, top row, left to right, in the
Girls' 16
final, Mackenzie Campbell, left, beat Latonia Lam, 6-0, 6-0; in the
Girls' 18, Tracy Dong, left, beat Vivian Tsui,
4-1 Ret, and in the
Boys' 14, Neel
Phaterpekar, left, beat Jack Davis, 6-3, 6-2. Second row, in the
Boys' 12, Isaac Davies,
left, defeated Kiran Phaterpekar, 7-5, 6-0;
Rob Fought, tournament director, and in the
Girls' 14, Luna Crawford, right, beat Kyla Jarrar,
6-1, 6-1. Third row, in the
Girls' 12, Michelle Lim, right, defeated Andreea Craciun,
6-1, 6-4; in the
Boys' 16,
Alexander Day, right, beat Iacopo Beltramo, 6-1, 7-6, and in the
Boys' 18, Todd Fought overcame Stas Pakhomov,
6-3, 6-0.
This year's event held, May 19 - 23 used a different formula for seeding. Ranking points were not the only factor in seeding,
as the current ranking system was thought to be over-inflating players playing up, with results based on playing players in younger age divisions. Head-to-head and the latest results from the Indoor Provincials
were used. Players, accordingly, were being allowed to play up but not
seeded unless they had head-to-head wins vs. other players in that age category.
Photo 1 (left): Thank you Rob! This is Rob
Fought's seventh year running the tournament and we hope he will continue doing so for many years to come.
Photo 2: Tracy Dong and her father, left, and Vivian Tsui
and her dad.
Photo 3: Milos Pospisil,
Vasek
' dad, was spotted watching matches at the tournament.
Milos is no longer coaching Vasek.
Photo 4: Susie Fought, left, and
Reggie Zebi
are enjoying a nice sunny day on the weekend. Susie won the Women's 45 Singles'
event of this year's Van Lawn Masters, April 24.
Photo 5: Seventy-six year old Pam Hunter, a five time National
Champion, singles and doubles, watched her grandson, Todd Fought, win first place at the
Boys' 18 competition.
Pam's other grand-children, Eric Fought,
Carley Hunter and
Lindsay Hunter,
were also playing in the tournament.
Photo 6: James Choi. James lost to
Daniel Raw
in the Boys' 18 Plate, 6-2, 6-4.
Photo 7:
Andrea Gu with her dad, Gary, left, and Luna Crawford with her mom.
Thirteen-year- old Andrea won the Girls' 16 Plate by beating Lindsay Hunter,
6-1, 6-2.
Photo 8: Long walk! Todd Fought and Stas Pakhomov are coming up
the stairs to the tournament desk.
Photo 9: Jeremy Salvo,
top
ten player in BC, left, and Dimitri Penchev.
Jeremy came to watch Michelle Lim win the
Girls' 12
event.
More ....
We have many clubs with indoor facilities throughout BC but only few
are willing to host tournaments for our juniors. Here we have
Hollyburn
Country Club , which has hosted six tournaments in the past
six months alone, December to May, while there are clubs with no
interest at all in participating in the development of our juniors.
We
asked why competitive opportunities are limited for our juniors in BC, and Luke O'Loughlin, Tennis BC, Director of High Performance
mentioned the above as one of the main reasons.
'It is also important to recognize that there are clubs currently not involved in hosting Champ level events,'
he said, 'which makes it more challenging and perhaps quite burdensome on other clubs who regularly pick up the slack.'
So, what can we do to encourage them to engage in this process?
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