Magazine Nov/Dec 2016

TENNIS

AUTOMATIC ROLLOVER Members currently enrolled in Term 1 classes will be automatically rolled over to Term 2 starting Monday, January 9, 2017. Please ask for a cancellation form from the Sports Counter at the Gym if you would like to opt out of the program. STA INTERLEAGUE DOUBLES The American Club Ladies’ B Division, Men’s A Division and Men’s C Division represented The Club at the Interclub Doubles League organized by the Singapore Tennis Association on Saturday, October 8. Led by Team Captain Trish Newlin, the Ladies’ B Division Team comprising Anne-Marie Carlisle, Kelly Cunnion, Stacey Davies, Elizabeth Emerson, Virginia Greenlaw, Lorraine Hadley, Farah Hasan, Tina King, Anita Liu, Victoria Martone, Janet Maurillo, Marcela Sullivan and Alice Thomson put up a good fight and ended up with 2 wins and 3 losses. Similarly, the Men’s A Division team, captained by Vladimir Makatsaria, scored 2 wins and 3 losses. The rest of the roster was made by Bill Alle, Chris Caryesford, Alexander Makatsaria, Joao Oliveira, Angus Potter, Matthew Prestwich and Sohil Shah. The Men’s C Division fared better; with 3 wins and 2 losses. The team comprised Captain Stephen Maher and players Rahul Arora, Bill Cornwell, Nafees Khundker, Michael Hadley, James Hsieh, Alvaro Patron, Bill Pazos, Gautam Puntambekar, David Rebetzke, Sandeep Sharma, Patrick Tay, Dylan Tinker, OB Wetzell and Robert Yang. MINI TENNIS & ¾ COURT TOURNAMENT It was a high energy affair on Saturday, September 3, when The Club hosted its first ever Mini

Tennis & ¾ Court Tournament of the season. We had the highest participation of all time – almost 34 juniors took part in the tournament! With such enthusiastic response, the Tennis Team plans to have two more Mini Tennis events – in February and in May.

Mini Tennis winner: Tabitha Maher

¾ Court Tournament Winner: Kabir Yohannan

53 THE AMERICAN CLUB NOV / DEC 2016