Juniors Alumni | Last December the opportunity to form the club's new men's league team for the Tennis BC Spring League came about. I took this chance and rounded up a few of the club's previous junior program members who had left the junior ranks. I have also added a couple of new faces to the newly formed team. The average age of our 10 member team is 21 years old. A young team but nevertheless eager to continue their competitive tennis in a team environment. The team was slotted in the men's C1 division, and was assigned to the red group. After weeks of indoor practices over the winter, we were ready enough to compete as a team.
I was not sure how we would stacked up against the other teams in our group. But in between all the rainouts we had through spring, our team managed to win 4 ties and draw 4 ties against the other teams in our red group. This was good enough to put us at the top of the table with a 68.8% winning percentage, having won 22 of our 32 matches. We also won 47 sets versus 27 sets lost. One of our main competition is from the Tsawwassen Tennis Club. They followed closely behind in second place with 20 matches won. The White Rock Tennis Club finished third in our table with 18 matches won.
Last Sunday at the Sunshine Hills Tennis Club, our team faced the division C1 blue group winner, Capilano Tennis Club, for the division title. What is at stake is more than the division title, but a chance to compete in the Miele Cup Regionals (Western Canadian) from July 2 to July 4 in Burnaby. Winning this Miele Cup Regionals (Western Canadian) will mean a trip to the Miele Cup National Championships in Toronto, which is held at the same venue and at the same time as the Rogers Cup (Canadian Open) tournament. The ladies' division will move on to Montreal to compete in their Miele Cup National Championships. All this is new. This is the first year a national championships is being held for league players across the country. This year our division was chosen for a test run for logistic reason and the other divisions will be included the following year.
By noon on Sunday, our team has secured a spot in the Miele Cup Regionals (Western Canadian). We have beaten the Capilano team by a score of 3-1. Marcin Walenczykiewicz won his singles match 6-2, 6-3. Chris Weingand and Ilya Tihanenoks won 6-2, 6-1 for our first doubles team. Our second doubles team lost a closely contested match. Jared Dawson and Alex Tan lost in a third set tiebreaker. The match score was 6-4, 4-6, 10-5. We secured our final point when Jasdev Gill and Ken Liu won 6-3, 7-5 as our third doubles team. Gill and Liu came back from a 3-5 deficit in the second set to take victory. We have been promoted to division B2 for league play next year.
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