Official Newsletter FRANKSTON TENNIS CLUB SUMMER2016

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PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Hello Fellow Members,

Welcome to the FRANKSTON TENNIS CLUB’s SUMMER and CHRISTMAS Edition of our Club Newsletter.

The Mid-Week Ladies finals have finished up and congratulations to all the girls who made the Finals. – with our FRIDAY SINGLES SECTION 1 team taking out the FLAG. Hope you all enjoyed your Season. The next season commences on 7 February 2017. And Next season, the Friday Girls will be teaming up with Mornington’s Renee Cheasley to form a combo “Frankston / Mornington” team in the Friday Singles Section 1 competition. JUNIORS / SENIORS / NIGHT TENNIS : All our other inter-club competitions have just finished up for the well earned mid-season Christmas /New Year Holiday break. The Seniors & Juniors competition will resume back on Saturday 4 February 2017, while the Mid-Week Ladies season is expected to resume in late January 2017..re well underway for JUNIORS, SENIORS, and NIGHT TENNIS.

Our wonderful ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FAMILY CELEBRATION held last Saturday 17 DECEMBER 2016 was a huge success. The fun started s at 6. 30 pm in readiness for the arrival of SANTA at 7.00 pm. There were lots of on-court activities for the little people too. Everyone was so happy to see SANTA and enjoy lots of XMAS Treats !! Our 125th Anniversary Club Book is progressing and so much more information is still being followed-up. We are planning for an EVENT to official celebrate and launch the History Book – probably nearer Easter 2017. Progress and further UPDATES will be provided to you all in the New Year. Thank you to those members who helped us on our recent WORKING BEE MORNING. Our latest news is that our Head Coach of 22 years, Chris Chandler (Chandler Tennis) will cease his role as head Coach from 1 January 2017. I wish Chris my best wishes for the future and I can confidently recommend him to a position of coaching with trust and responsibility. Coaching will continue as usual at the FTC with Chris at the helm until 31 December 2016. As advised to you previously distributed separate Announcement, effective from 1 January 2017, the club’s Coaching activities will be provided by BETTER TENNIS, headed up by local coaching icon Steven Foot.

Good Luck, Happy Hitting, Happy Christmas and a Safe & Festive New Year to you all. AND DON’T FORGET- FTC IS THE PLACE TO BE - HAPPY HITTING!!!! Your Lady President Dawn McCormack

FRANKSTON TENNIS CLUB RELOCATION :

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE !!

Relocation of the Frankston Tennis

Club Steering Committee Report Since my last report we have had one meeting with the FCC and major stakeholders. This meeting seemed to go well with confirmation of the lodgement of an application for a $3M roofed stadium for Gymnastics – through to the State Government. Also, at that meeting, even though at the previous meeting the Golf club appear to be more supportive of the Project, have now pulled out and will take no part in it. We were assured that the project will still go ahead and the Golf Course and Gymnastics are in full favour of it.

The representatives of Golf Victoria were not impressed with the Golf club’s decision and have urged the FCC to have one last go at getting them on board. I noted that Cr Colin Hampton was not present at the meeting, which I think is the first and only meeting he’s missed. Lets see if he attends future meetings. FCC presented some concept drawings for the Project but did make it clear that they were only produced for the application for funding and were not final drawings and may look nothing like what the development will be. It is unlikely that there will be further meetings this year. HOWEVER, since that meeting, at the usual monthly FCC monthly Open Council meetings, held on Monday 19 December 2016, we witnessed the nine (9) recently elected Frankston City Councillors, including the new

Mayor, unanimously agreeing to the

withdrawal of the Centenary Golf Club AND

the Golf Course Operations from the

Centenary Park Sporting Complex project,

effective immediately. The result of this totally unexpected decision is that, apart from effectively wasting the last two years of meetings, research, presentations, & the hundreds of man hours put in by all our Sub-Committee members – the HUNT FOR OUR NEW HOME – CONTINUES. We will continue to work closely with the FCC to explore all possible avenues and a meeting has just been set by FCC for Monday 9 January 2017. We do not know if we will still be co-located at the Centenary Park site with Gymnastics ; or that FCC would now consider a “stand-alone” project for us.

For you background information - it had been previously announced at a previous meeting that even though the Golf Club appeared to be much more supportive of the project, they had pulled out of the project and will take no part in it. We were assured that the project will still go ahead and the golf course and gymnastics are in full favour of it.

Celebrating

125 Years

The representatives of Golf Victoria were not impressed with the golf clubs decision and have urged the FCC to have one last go at getting them on board. FCC presented some concept drawings for the project but did make it clear that they were only produced for the application for finance and were not final drawings and may look nothing like what the development will be. The FCC were preparing a report for the new Councillors to fully brief them on the project. We were confident that apart from the golf club all stakeholders are working together to achieve something special and by the middle of 2017 drawings and funding were to be in place to commence the development. We will keep you all informed of any developments ; and we expect to be able to report more following our meeting on 9 January 2017. WATCH THIS SPACE !!! John McGillivray

Chairman Relocation Committee

FTC welcomes our newest CLUB SPONSOR

COVER-UP SUNSCREEN

Our Club would like to welcome our NEWEST SPONSOR - COVER UP SUNSCREEN. COVER UP SUNSCREEN now joins the RIVIERA HOTEL, together with CORE24 as our suite of thee (3) major sponsors supporting the Frankston Tennis Club.

As part of this exciting new Sponsorship, the FTC can provide ALL our CLUB MEMBERS with the new “Dry Touch SPF 50+ 110 ml Tubes of Sunscreen for ONLY $10. These are NOW AVAILABLE for you to purchase. With the warmer weather nearly here we ALL need to take steps to ensure we are all COVERED UP and SUN & SUMMER READY. You can purchase any of the 110 Ml Tubes either at the Office downstairs, or upstairs over the Bar. Any queries, or if you need any SUNSCREEN for a very useful CHRISTMAS GIFT, please let us know. CONTACT : Annie Baldwin 0411 155 707. RIVIERA HOTEL : In the New Year, we will be arranging a “CLUB NIGHT” at the RIVIERA HOTEL, Seaford – to introduce our Club Members to the yummy meals at the Riviera Bistro. So keep an eye on the next Newsletter for more information The Riviera’s Managing Owner, Greg Beretta has long been a supporter of the FTC primarily through his talented young 17 year old son, Zach, competing regularly at our 3 annual Junior Ranking Tournaments. The most recent Junior Tournament was our “2016 Riviera Hotel Frankston Junior Claycourts”. In 2017, we will be finalising a program of promotional opportunities involving all three of our Club Sponsors. We will let you know all the details when finalised. Any queries, please feel free to contact our Club President Dawn McCormack.

2017 “COVER UP SUNSCREEN”

FRANKSTON SUMMER CLASSIC

2-4 January 2017

COVER-UP SUNSCREEN

Our next JUNIOR TOURNAMENT – the 2017 COVER UP SUNSCREEN FRANKSTON SUSMMER CLASSIC will be Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4 January 2017. Tennis Australia have reduced this event from the usual 5 days to only 3 and the match format, originally going to be “FAST4”was thankfully been changed to “Best of 2 Sets with a 10 point Match Tiebreak” to determine the Winner. We were able to change the format from the originally published “FAST4” format of Best of 2 4-game sets. It must have worked, as we have more players than last year’s event.

New Club Member CAMERON welcoming visitors

to our KITCHEN during our last Tournament

WE NEED YOUR HELP !!!

As always, we would welcome your support in

helping us with the Kitchen activities during

those 3 days of the Tournament.

And if you do have a spare little spare time and looking to do something in the School Holidays (and have a further opportunity to work off your Annual Maintenance Levy, this might just be the answer. Our Club Committee would welcome your support and help in running this event – particularly in the Kitchen area. Without the wonderful tireless work of our club volunteer community, the Club would not be able to run these events. If you do have any spare time, please contact our Club Operations Manager, Anne Baldwin, who would love to hear from you – if she has not already contacted you.

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To KEEP you ALL UP TO DATE with happenings

around the fabulous FTC - & if you have not

already done so please DON’T FORGET to “LIKE”

the BEST CLUB IN THE WORLD !!

OUR VERY ONWN AUSSIE OPEN

PLAYER : DONNA VEKIC Yes – its official. The FRANKSTON TENNIS CLUB has adopted an AUSTRALIAN OPEN PLAYER !! everyone, The FRANKSTON TENNIS CLUB have a Main Draw player in the 2017 AUSTRALIAN OPEN (Womens). This is a TENNIS AUSTRALIA program designed to "connect" the AO players with local community tennis clubs nationally. We are very very lucky just to get a player, and we seem to have been given quite a handy young player. She is a Croation girl DONNA VEKIC and she is currently ranked 101 Singles in the world - not long out of Junior ranks and she is playing the world's best players. As part of the program. .....the FRANKSTON TENNIS CLUB sort of adopts DONNA and promotes her while promoting us at the same time. She can visit us (if timing & training fits in) we go and watch etc ). It might be quite exciting ....even if she only gets to Round 1. She might play Ms Williams at Centre Court... Will get more details next week and let you know. PS This is an initiative that BetterTennis took up and nominated the FTC for a Player..on our behalf. Donna is quite a handy player - in recent matches she has been beaten by players such as Ana Ivanovic 6/4 6/2 in August ; Svetlana Kuznetsova and back in June at Wimbledon - she had the pleasure of playing Ms Williams in the 1st round - and only went down 6-7 (3) and 4-6. We will all let you know the DRAW and may be able to organise a group to go a watch OUR GIRL DONNA AT THE OPEN. Anyone who would be interested in going along to support Donna at the Open, please let Anne Baldwin know on 0411 155 707 or via email general@frankstontennisclub.com. We will keep you informed as we know more.

Donna VEKIC PLAYER'S DETAILS

• Name : VEKIC, Donna

• Age: 28 Jun 1996

• Birth place: Osijek, Croatia

• Nationality: Croatia

• Plays :Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)

WORKING BEE REVIEW : HELD SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2016.

Despite the very poor weather conditions, a very brave group of individuals kindly supported Trevor’s recent Court Repair WORKING BEE. Many barrow loads of wet en tout cas were removed from the previously rain and flooded damaged tennis courts.

A BIG THANK YOU to :

• Vince Condello

• Chris Chandler

• Norm Fuh

• John McGillivray

• Trevor Valentine

• Bev Valentine (provided yummy sandwiches for the Workers)

2017 WORKING BEE DATES : A schedule of general WORKING BEES for the 2017 calendar year will be put together shortly and will be distributed out to all our Club Members.

MEMORY WALK & JOG : 22 JANUARY 2017 – SUPPORT

SPONSORS CAN YOU HELP ?

Hi All, I am well into training for my participation in the 4.5 Kms WALK section in the MEMORY WALK / JOG EVENT to be held on Sunday 22 January 2017, in aid of the ALZHEIMER’S AUSTRALIA VICTORIA APPEAL. I have already reached 4.5 kms and walk close to this distance every day. I have even walked from Mornington to Mt Eliza in response to a challenge from a generous sponsor – a distance of 6.3 kms – for a great donation of $100 towards the Appeal.

I am fit and 87 years young, and play tennis twice weekly, walk daily and travel overseas (as often as money allows) ! I have a close relation who has just been diagnosed with Dementia – so this cause is particularly close to my heart. I am looking for sponsors to support me and my participation in this worthy charity event. I have already reached my original target of $250, thanks for a number of very kind sponsors, and I would like to achieve my new aim of $500 if possible. ** PLEASE HELP ME – and this Charity – with a donation today !!. Any amount would be greatly appreciated, big or small, to help in fighting this sad disease and assist towards finding a cure. PLEASE SEND YOUR DONATIONS TO THE SECURE OFFICIAL WEBSITE : https://memorywalk-vic.gofundraise.com.au/page/RuthMACLEOD ** ALL DONATIONS are officially acknowledged and receipted. With Thanks for your interest – and donations.

RUTH MACLEOD

DISPLAY OF ZONED PARKING PERMITS

Just a quick reminder to all those Members who have a ZONED PARKING PERMIT. Recently, many Club members have been issued with a $155.00 Fine from Frankston City Council – for not DISPLAYING their parking permit on their dashboard. The Parking Permits are issued to Members (at no cost) who need to park their vehicle at the FTC Car Park between the hours of 6 am to 3 pm Weekdays.

If you are parking at the Club between the above hours, please ensure you have your Permit clearly displayed at all times. The Frankston City Council seem to be more vigilant with the Patrol Officers now policing our car park regularly – sometimes twice a day. If you have lost your Parking Permit ; or have any queries regarding the Permit, please immediately contact our Club Operations Manager, Anne Baldwin on 0411 155 707.

YOUR GENERAL COMMITTEE FOR 2016 / 2017

Following the Club’s 2016 Annual General Meeting held in September, the following Office Bearers were duty elected :

• President Dawn McCormack

• Vice-President Trevor Valentine

• Treasurer Con Markopoulos

• Secretary Anne Baldwin

• Assistant Treasurer & General Committee Norman Fuh

• General Committee John McGillivray

UP TO DATE CONTACT DETAILS

Changed Address Recently ? : PLEASE ensure that we have a current address for you, if you have moved house within the last 6 months or so, please let us know.

DO YOU NEED 24/7 COURT ACCESS ??

If you have found that you would like to have access to the Club’s practice courts 24/7 for a casual “hit” amongst friends or just to keep in good form, obtaining a KEY to the Club’s back courts may just be the answer.

We have received quite a significant number of enquiries from existing club Members now seeking to have a Key. This KEY will give them access to the courts - when they want. This has occurred over the recent Easter Break, and now during the current School Holiday period.

If you would like to take up the opportunity to have easy access to the club’s back courts, please just contact the Club Operations Manager, Anne Baldwin on 0411 155 707 to obtain a Key.

PENINSULA MENS MASTERS

Much like the SENIORS Saturday afternoon competition, the MENS 55+ WEDNESDAY COMPETITION is going strong. A few new faces, a couple of returning faces and a few injuries so far this Season. Hopefully the Summer weather stays with us – not too hot and no more washouts – the Winter season was certainly a bad one for washouts !! The Masters Men recently held their Christmas Break-Up Celebration which was a culinary extravaganza with beautiful displays of Christmas delicacies and treats, Puddings, Shortbread and Christmas cakes. As always a great big THANK YOU goes to Terry Heazle and John Connell for their on-going organisational prowess in once again putting this terrific competition together for what is now heading into its 20th consecutive Season. Well done to all the Players involved for their continued support of the Mens Masters.

CLUB’S 125 YEARS CELEBRATIONS CONTINUE

Our Writer of the “125 Years of the FTC” History Book, Elizabeth Tulloh is continuing to compile more and more fascinating information, both historical and amusing stories from former committee & other members as well as historical data. An Update on more developments with the club’s 125th Year Anniversary Celebrations will be published in our next NEWSLETTER.

SENIORS REPORT

The SUMMER 2016 / 2017 has just reached the half-way mark in the current Season. Our Mixed Doubles teams are all doing well, and the Open Singles teams are fairing well against some very strong opposition this Season. We have needed quite a few Emergencies to fill in the gaps with work commitments and unplanned injuries. The ENTRY

FORM for the upcoming WINTER 2017 PTA

Competition Season is available at the

CLUBROOMS. The CLOSING DATE for entries the

PTA season will be SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2017.

Trevor Valentine

SENIOR CO-ORDINATOR

JUNIORS REPORT

The Summer Season is now in full swing with the season passed the half-way mark. Many of our teams, both the Boys & the Girls have already had their share of injuries – one broken ankle, one fractured arm and foot surgery. We have been stretched to capacity to find emergencies, sometimes at last minute, but have managed to find enough players to cover the injuries and absences. Roll-on the warmer weather and Summer !!!

The ENTRY FORM for the upcoming WINTER 2017

PTA Competition Season is available at the

CLUBROOMS. The CLOSING DATE for entries the

PTA season will be SATURDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2017.

REMY HEUTAU with her Most Improved Girl for the Summer

2015/16 Season with her proud parents Jean-Michel & Christine.

NIGHT TENNIS

The SUMMER 2016/2017 NIGHT SEASON continues on with strong competition and a few “returning” players from previous season coming back into the fray as Emergencies. And, so far this Season - no washouts.

The MONSTER MOON hovering over FTC

MID-WEEK LADIES

The Mid-Week Ladies 2016 SEASON 2 has now concluded ; and thankfully, this season with no “wash out” grand final results. Firstly a big CONGRATULATIONS to our FRIDAY SINGLES SECTION 1 CHAMPIONS for taking out the Flag – RENEE CHEASLEY & RHONDA CRONIN. They were far too strong on the day – not dropping a set and only loosing a combined total of 8 games in the 2 straight-set Singles victories by Renee & Rhonda.

And our TUESDAY GIRLS SECTION 4 TEAM WON THEIR first SEMI-FINAL, against the higher ranked team from Frankston East. A huge effort from all the Girls – Carol Gardner, Bev Valentine, Debbie Grenfell and Maureen Withers. The Girls then went on to play the GRAND FINAL at Mt Eliza up against the lovely Ladies from Langwarrin - who finished on top of the Ladder. Our Girls were gallant in defeat with Langwarrin being just too strong on the day. Our TUESDAY SECTION 2 Girls easily won their Semi-Final to take them straight into the Grand Final – up against the girls from Frankston East. Unfortunately, on the day, it wasn’t meant to be – with our girls, Marg Clode, Joanne Smith, Sue Nissen & Rhonda Cronin, going down to the FE girls – Jenny Bouker, Lorraine Avers, Kerry Butler & Sue Cherry. CONGRATULATIONS to all our wonderful Girls for their efforts once again in what was not an easy season with injuries and overseas trips impacting on some of the teams. The team nominations for the 2017 Summer Season Summer season have been completed and lodged with the PTA for Grading.

Hope you all have a good and safe break over the Christmas / New Year period. See you all in 2017.

Carol Gardner

MWL CO-ORDINATOR

SOCIAL

ANNUAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS

CELEBRATION :

The CLUB’S SANTA NIGHT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. A big THANK YOU to all the HELPERS involved - including SANTA & his HELPERS, all the Presents, Alicia & Hayley for the fun on-court activities for the Kiddies, the jolly BBQ Gang, and all the yummy Xmas delicacies, & of course those beautiful Christmas Decorations upstairs in the Sir Ron Carter Room. We also had FCC representation by Deputy Mayor Cr Steve Toms & Cr Sandra Mayer briefly on the night.

SOCIAL

ANNUAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS

CELEBRATION : (continued)

MONSTER 2016 CHRISTMAS RAFFLE : The Winners were : 1st Prize Gourmet Hamper KYLIE M 2nd Prize CORE24 Training Session MIA 3rd Prize Better Tennis - Coaching WENDY S 4th Prize COVER UP SUNSCREEN JAYNE O’M 5th Prize COVER UP SUNSCREEN COLIN H 6th Prize The BAY HOTEL NICK 7th Prize The BAY HOTEL SASHA 8th Prize CAFÉ BUENTA WENDY S 9th Prize CAFÉ BUENTA JOANNE T 10th Prize COCO BEND PENNY H

JUNIOR AWARDS PRESENTATION -

WINTER 2016 SEASON : Congratulations to the winners of the WINTER 2016 SEASON individual and team awards and Annual Presentation of the Sir Ron Carter Perpetual Sportsmanship Award, which were presented as part of the ANNUAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION. The WINNERS were :

• MOST IMPROVED BOY

o DANIEL ANDREW

• MOST IMPROVED GIRL

o MARIAH NIKOLAKAKOS

• BEST BOY

o RAINE FARR

• BEST GIRL

o JASMYN BELL

FINALISTS (PTA Winter 2016 Season) BOYS SECTION 3

• Danny HUTCHESON

• Riley VAN ZANDEN

• Salesi LELENOA

• Daniel ANDREW

• Jules STROOT (absent)

PHOTOS of the AWARD WINNERS will be featured in the next edition of the Club NEWSLETTER

TRIVIA NIGHT : MARCH / APRIL 2017

(yet to be confirmed) :

A further update will be advised when more details are confirmed.

HAPPY SNAPS FROM

AROUND THE TRAPS

The FTC LAP POOL

Is this a LION in the Sky ???

A WASHOUT ???

My Puppy Ate My Homework or Scorebook !!

Our newest GARMENT MODELS

Nice work Danno & Stevie

JUNIOR FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN :

Saturday Morning BBQ

A HUGE BIG THANKYOU TO SALLY SMITH-

WEST, WITH DAAUGHTER KARMEN COOKING UP

A STORM ON THE BBQ AS A FUNDRAISER FOR

THE CLUB’S JUNIORS.

KEY CLUB WEBSITES

CLUB www.frankstontennisclub.com email : general@frankstontennisclub.com

COACH

BETTER TENNIS

Steven Foot & Brad Grose

info@bettertennis.com

Peninsula Tennis Association (PTA) www.tennis.com/au/pta

Tennis Victoria : www.tennis.com.au

WE MISS YOU…SIR RON …..

Enjoy a refreshment in the warm and friendly

atmosphere of the Upstairs Ron Carter Room.

Next Edition of

Club Newsletter

FEBRUARY 2017

via the Club’s website at:

www.frankstontennisclub.com

2017 CLUB & KEY EVENTS:

• 2-4 JANUARY COVER UP SUNSCREEN JUNIOR TOURNAMENT

• 9 JANUARY MEETING with FCC

• 10 JANUARY KOOYONG CLASSIC commences

• 16 JANUARY 2017 AUSTRALIAN OPEN commences

• Late JANUARY MWL New SEASON commences

• 28 FEBRUARY SENIOR & JUNIOR Winter ENTRIES CLOSE

• MARCH/APRIL TRIVIA NIGHT (to be confirmed)

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