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[tommyfr]

An interesting torunament will take place October 2-8: International 14 U (Asian tennis federation). Place is Rizal Memorial.

Hwo will our best youngsters, boys and girls, do vs som international /asian competition? (Until now however, besides many of the best filipinos, not top players from other countries. As of now, Some nationally highly ranked Malaysians, that basically all.)

Anyways, still some interesting games: How will 11 year old Alexie Santos from Palawan do in this field? I am interested to watch 10 year old Pantino also.

And of course Albert Lim, 12 years old. (And how will his parents behave?) Favourites in boys should be Lim, Amazonas, 14, from Davao , Villasenor 14 yrs, and Eric Olivarez 13 yrs, plus two strong Malaysians. The top ranked filipino girls will have competition from the no 1 ranked Malaysisan girl.

Hopefully some more international players will join.

Ano PTO members gonna watch? Maybe we can have a common dinner after one of the days...

[smiley]

i think christian and marcen are still eligible to play. and i hope they'll also progress to deeper matches...

i also hope that foreign players join this tourney so our local players get exposures.

wow!, dinner, i'm in!

[SLP888]

good!! manood tapos dinner at mag usap usap ng harap harapan para magkakilala di bah kasi lalo na sa mga nagtatago sa handle name nila hindi nakilala eh magkasama naman tayo dito di bah!

[RafaRen]

pwede ba mag entry dito ang mga kaibigan naming bata?.., ^_^

[tommyfr]

So how was the tournament?

Lets start with the girls. The best filipina 14U is probably Resma, but she lost in an early round to Korean Kim. Kim later won the tournament. Seems that Resma have difficulties with strokes outside her comfort zone, common among age groupers, that mostly practice rallies in high pace, hitting straigth to eachother. But when Kim gave her high bouncing balls or angled balls with different spins, a lot of errors popped up.

Most impressive in a sense among the filipino girls, however, I think was young Alexis Samtos. She is only 11 years old and took top 3 ranked Maia Balce to 3 sets. Tiny Alexis take almost all balls on the rise, lean and rotate into the ball. Great consistency, placement and power. She will be offered scholarship with PTA Phillippine Tennis Academy.

The winner in the boys section, Chung from Korea, bet all the filipino top players: Olivarez in QF 6-1, 6-2. Villsenor in SF 6-1, 6-1. and AJ Lim in the finals. I was not able to see the final but Lim who is only 12, really impressed in the other with his attacking power or shall we call it knock out tennis.

Except for the final day, the weather was fine, the tournament rather well organized (exception for result board that was a disaster, and the changing of courts for players the last couple of days without proper notice).

Although Rizal tennis stadium is nice another very weak area is the lack of spectator places for 4 of the courts. Of course a result of poor design from the beginning, but could possibly be fixed now later on.

Another poor thing was the match buying-selling; I refer to the apparent tanking of a player in the round of 16. Who is morally worse here? The mother of the boy buying the match, or the father selling the boys game?

  Anyway, next time we see this we must report it to tournament referee and the boy tanking should be banned from tennis for long time.

Otherwise is was good spirit among the players and no disputes on calls, etc as I could notice. Great to see.

[LTA USA]

SLP888,

No need for dinner. We need action not opinion. What can PTO do as a support for current programs? We can start supporting the PTA and lending them a hand.

If Philta needs help, then PTO gives them a hand.

Isn't this the goal of the group?

What do you think guys? Let's do this for the youth!

Joseph Lizardo

P.S. SLP888 miss ko Davis cup ah!

[LTA USA]

We need a facilty to train in. All these kids need a home base that is own by the kids not club members. What do you think PTO members? Are we up for the challenge of giving these kids a home? I am ready to lend a hand and rally people here in the US!

Sincerely,

Joseph Lizardo

[burosky]

We need a facilty to train in. All these kids need a home base that is own by the kids not club members. What do you think PTO members? Are we up for the challenge of giving these kids a home? I am ready to lend a hand and rally people here in the US!

Sincerely,

Joseph Lizardo

What do you have in mind, sir?  I am based in San Leandro.  It is about 10 miles south of San Francisco.  I'm nowhere near the caliber of player you guys are but I'm willing to do what I can to help.

[LTA USA]

The Filipino youth needs a facilty that is public. I prefer 24 courts. This way, local coaches Are able to make money, families has access to free courts. I don't want a stadium, I dont want grand stand or glamour. I need courts for kids to play on. This is my dream for Philippine Tennis.

[SLP888]

LTA USA,

I got your point but I had discussion with godfather 10 years ago about it and he said, OK so he started to look for place in Davao, Cagayan de oro and Bacolod. There was a planning already but from there I don't know maybe financial problem?.

I got your point there we need based for the kids to play.



P.S. Miss ko rin Chicken wings and windsurfing...

[Darkwing]

The Filipino youth needs a facilty that is public. I prefer 24 courts. This way, local coaches Are able to make money, families has access to free courts. I don't want a stadium, I dont want grand stand or glamour. I need courts for kids to play on. This is my dream for Philippine Tennis.

This is grand! 24 International Standard Courts free for public use? Wow! That would really be something. One question though, who would maintain the courts and where would the funds to maintain such facility come from if it's free? I definitely want to see this dream of yours accomplished in my lifetime.

[daryl]

The Filipino youth needs a facilty that is public. I prefer 24 courts. This way, local coaches Are able to make money, families has access to free courts. I don't want a stadium, I dont want grand stand or glamour. I need courts for kids to play on. This is my dream for Philippine Tennis.

This is grand! 24 International Standard Courts free for public use? Wow! That would really be something. One question though, who would maintain the courts and where would the funds to maintain such facility come from if it's free? I definitely want to see this dream of yours accomplished in my lifetime.

+1

[tommyfr]

i think maintenance not so much a problem, hard court almost maintenance free for 5 years then just repaint, and shell court not much expensive also. A normal court fee for adults, if jr play free, donations for parents, advertisments, tournament income, sponsors etc.  (Just the name court be sorth a million pesos per year....) That should be more than enough to cover maintenance.

The big thing is to build it. First the land a few millions and then the courts another 5-10 million pesos. if covered the much more, and some should be covered.

What if we instead were able to start a mini tennis culture, at schools, kindergartens, and young kids can after achool set up a simple net and play in the (not so much traficked) street or basketball courts etc. Then we could reach nillion of kids and not only maybe 1000 with the 24 courts....

[LTA USA]

First project of PTO? Let's do this for the youth without any expectations in return. Let's worry about the rest when the basic structure is up.

Lease a land, instead of buy

Ask a builder to donate asphalt and fence

Basic hard courts and nets ( maybe lighted )

Fence

Then we are good

[racketwiz]

Off topic.

I suggest appending this to an existing thread of the appropriate topic or start a new thread.

[LTA USA]

Maybe off topic but related to the future 14 and under players that we have. Like what i said earlier, lots of suggestions but no action.

[santeb]

i think maintenance not so much a problem, hard court almost maintenance free for 5 years then just repaint, and shell court not much expensive also. A normal court fee for adults, if jr play free, donations for parents, advertisments, tournament income, sponsors etc.  (Just the name court be sorth a million pesos per year....) That should be more than enough to cover maintenance.

The big thing is to build it. First the land a few millions and then the courts another 5-10 million pesos. if covered the much more, and some should be covered.

What if we instead were able to start a mini tennis culture, at schools, kindergartens, and young kids can after achool set up a simple net and play in the (not so much traficked) street or basketball courts etc. Then we could reach nillion of kids and not only maybe 1000 with the 24 courts....

[santeb]

I say start with infrastructure that already is there, the existing tennis courts all over the Philippines. Get the trainers and coaches to be proactive first, meaning get a lot of them to teach tennis 10's. When the project takes off, if it takes off, then you can start expanding to schools and other parks. I mean, if tennis trainers and coaches can't make it take off, how could you expect non tennis people to make it take off. The trick is to make those in the teaching industry initiate it, for who after all will benefit the most from it. Sadly, there's not even a tennis teaching organization here. I believe the most important aspect in the grass roots program here in the Philippines is the teaching pros and trainers. Philta has never been up to the task, so it is up to the teaching pros or trainers.

[smiley]

hanap tayo ng parking lots na pde i-rent tulad ng CCP na pde i-convert sa tennis courts..at least madaming net na lang ang kailnganin which is more economical.... then budget na lang sa mga pro coaches at madaming balls. kung feasible na ung location,  campaign naman natin for a 1 whole day affair for 10's or beginners gaya ng ginawa na ng PTO dati.... kaya yan! basta teamwork!!! 

[tommyfr]

As reply # 14 correctly noted, this has nothing to do with original topic, Mariposa tournament.
Pls respect the board rules/etiquette and readers.
There is another thread further down: "Philippines tennis future", we can continue there, or start a new one.
As we say on the court: Focus!