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Sunday, March 30, 2014

The President's Cup challenge

Dear friends and readers,

Sorry , I was too tired last night to finish the blog. Here's an update re the President's Cup.

We were grateful for our President's team coming to give the state team a fight. The players were Christine, Donald, Kush, Rupert, Denise, Daphne, Tony, Sarah and Hannah.

The state team did their first good team cheer.




The President's team

Tyz and Donald. Tyz won in 2 sets.



Bella v Christine. Bella won in 2 against an older and less fit opponent.


Julia v Daphne. Julia won in 2 sets.


Sophie v Denise. Sophie won in 2 sets.

The President's Cup

Some of the enthusiastic parents 
Edward v Wailit. Ed won in 2 sets.


Ed and Julia v Lennox and Daphne. Ed and Julia won in 3 sets.


Tony v Jasper. Jasper won in 2 sets.

Xiang v Lennox. Xiang had to fight to win in 3 sets.

GeriMay v Hanna. Geri won in 2 sets.


Julia v Daphne. Julia won in 2 sets.



Xiang and Geri v Donald and Christine. Xiang and Geri won in 2 sets

Gavin and Bella v Hanna and Tony. Gavin and Bella also won in 2 sets.

Kush and Sarah v Tyz and Olivia. Kush and Sarah won after a tough 3 setter.
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Young Daphne umpiring

Denise and Rupert v Sophie and Jasper. They won in 2 sets


Jaz coaching the players


Tyz on the floor after winning through a tough 3 setter with Jasper

President Bruce congratulating the State team

Tyz receiving the President's cup


The team de-stressing
As can be seen, the WA team did well to win the cup.There were several close fights.

We were glad to have the company of June, a Life member, Bruce, our president and Judith our last President. 

Andrew and Gillian Chai , the next Under 19s coach and manager were also there to cheer the teams.
All the player's parents were great in helping to make sure that the players and guests were well fed.

Thanks to Kay ad Coach Yuli for organising everything.




Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Coaches Team Challenge

Dear readers

The Coaches Challenge started at 10 30 am.

There were group photos taken for the team and the challengers.

The Coaches team and the State team

The 2014 WA Under 17s State team

The captain, manager, coach and umpire

There was a decision  that we would try and save $30 each and not pay for the team photos that are usually taken at the tournament.  We decided to take our own. I must say the result was not bad if I may say so  myself.


The team did their first team cheer before getting on to the first matches. The first matches were the mixed doubles games.






Gavin and Bella went down in 2 sets against Eddie and Jolene who are both much older than the WA team players.

Jasper and Sophie were no contest against Daryl and Amanda.

Tyzton and Olivia could not contain experienced Crystal and Andrew Belcher also going down in 2 sets.





Edward and Julia also went down against Soniq and Angie.

 Only Xiang and Gerimay the 2013 Under 15s mixed champs won against Kai Chen and Eunice in 3 sets.



After a brief pep talk, the players started their singles games. Gavin got more points for the team winning in 2 sets against Daryl. Tyzton got the first set against Soniq but lost closely in the next 2 sets.


The Under 15s singles champ could not contain the Under 19s singles champ Eddie Hung. Xiang lost in 2 sets.

Bella then went against Amanda and managed to win in 2 sets.

Gerimay went for a 3 setter to win against Eunice who  admitted she was out of shape as she has been concentrating on her studies.

Olivia went down fighting against Jolene in 2 sets.

Edward also could not contain up  and rising Kai  Chen, losing in 2 sets.
      
Sophie was also  unable to  beat  Angie going down in 2 sets.


Jasper went fighting against Andrew Belcher but could not  contain the older and taller Belcher.

Julia then fought a 3 setter before losing to Crystal.

There was a short rest  before the team started on their  doubles games. Gavin and Edward lost to Andrew  and Eddie in 2 sets. Gerimay and Sophie  also  lost  in 2 sets to Eunice and  Crystal.

Jasper and Xiang won in 3 sets against Soniq  and Kai  Chen.

Bella and Julia faced Angie  and Crystal but  could  only survive 2 sets.

 Xiang and Tyzton also  lost in 2 sets against Eddie  and  Daryl.

The  last  game was  between Gerimay  and Olivia against Jolene and Eunice. It was a close fight but WA managed only  2 sets.

The Under 17s lost 34 games to 12. Not  bad against  a  much  more experienced team which mainly comprised of players form the previous year's Under 19s players.

They will have to  do  better against the President's team.

There was lunch with the  challengers prepared by the parents who are always supportive.

In between the games, I managed to do some interviews of the players.




Some of these kids are quite cheeky even when they are being interviewed.

Half way through the games, I  had to return to Perth to pick  up Jazton as he had locked himself out.




Jaz and I then went to Armadale Golf course for a quick  9  holes  before  returning to the club to  see what the  players were doing.




They were getting a talk on  umpiring by Annie.


The  next  talk  was by  Sam Fan on nutrition.


Bruce Napier our new president then gave a talk on lining.


This is only the first half of the day's events.