CELEBRATION OF ALAN JONES
ALAN JONES MEMORIAL BBQ – Unique Tennis BBQ on Friday 13th September
As previously mentioned we will be holding a BBQ to celebrate Alan Jones, a life well lived. This will take place at the start of the new academy year on Friday the 13th of September. This will start after the second afternoon session from around 4:30 onwards. Everyone is welcome to attend and it will be great if we can get a large attendance so we can share stories and reminisce on the good times shared.
If you can please let us know if you are going to attend this would be great. If we have a rough idea of numbers we can make sure we get the appropriate amount of food & drink for the afternoon/evening. As well as the BBQ there is a tree being planted at the club in Alan’s memory.
COACHING CORNER
NATALIA ILKOW
Regional Performance Coach of the Year
Congratulations to Natalia Ilkow who has been awarded the regional performance coach of the year award to go alongside her middlesex performance coach of the year, awarded to her earlier in the year.
All the county winners from the south east region then get votes to determine the regional winner and Natalia ended up victorious from all the nominees.
She was presented with her award during the WTA & ATP events at Devonshire gardens in Eastbourne.
UNIQUE TENNIS PRESENTATIONS
Various presentations in the new year
During the new academy year we will be delivering a few presentations around a variety of different topics, throughout the year.
Jo Durie will be talking to the players about “the journey” to her career high 5 in the world ranking. We have done presentations around nutrition, hydration among others in the past and we believe it will be beneficial to the players to introduce these again.
These will be open to both parents and players. If there is any topics in which any players or parents would be particularly interested in or consider beneficial in us doing a presentation on then please let us know, any suggestions are welcome.
Players Results
GEORGE LOFFHAGEN
After a long spell out of competition, rehabbing injuries, George has been back competing in recent weeks. With the most recent two weeks of tournaments being held at Nottingham tennis centre.
The first week sadly saw George have to retire after suffering back spasms at a set up and 1-1 in the 2nd. This quickly settled and the following week George put in a strong performance to reach the final of the 25k, doing this without dropping a set on route to the final.
He came up against a strong Aussie opponent who proved too good on the day. After a week rest from competition it was then the 25K at Roehampton. After playing 5 very competitive matches, George won the tournament this time round 🏆 .
All done without dropping a set the whole week. A nice reward for all the hard work he’s put in over recent months. The final was against the 5th seed Viktor Durasovic who also made the final without dropping a set. The score in the final was 6-4, 6-3.
Well done George and good luck in the upcoming tournaments.
Ajax has had a very busy summer of competition. Great to get so many matches under his belt for experience and to learn from.
Runner up 14U G4 @ Georgians
Runner up 11u G3 @ Cambridge
Runner up 12u G3 @ Cambridge
Runner up 12u G3 @ Cromer
Winner 11u G3 @ Framingham
Sahara Baptiste was part of a British team that went to compete in France for a week.
This was Sahara’s first abroad trip representing GB and it was a successful one with her claiming the titles in both singles and doubles.
Up North to Scotland for the 10u G2 national event for Henry Momot at the start of July. It ended up being a successful week for him, finishing runner up after lots of good competitive matches.
Mylo standing proudly wearing his Unique Tennis top after claiming a 11u G3 title in July. We look forward to Mylo coming in a little bit more from September. Keep up the hard work.
Sophia Fisk showing some really good mental strength on court and playing some really exciting aggressive tennis, with lots of moves to the net and willingness to play drive volleys. She recently won the 14u G4 event in Warwick as well as winning some doubles titles over the summer so far.
Several runner up finishes for Lawrence over the summer so far. Most recently coming runner up in a 12u G4. Well done Lawrence.
Lots of tournaments for Maxwell recently and playing up in age groups all of the time, so he’s done well to have the following results:
Winner 10u G3 @ Cromer
Runner Up 10u G3 @ Ashby Castle
Runner Up 10u G3 @ Sutton
Runner Up 10u G3 @ Leamington
Success in lots of team competitions for Marilee over the summer, with a great effort helping Herts win county week. This is her with the runner up trophy at the women’s brit tour in Ilkley recently.
A succesful week at Windsor LTC for Ria winning both the Women’s & 18u Girls singles during the week. Alongside playing some ITFs during the summer she then played in the Great Missended open and again prevailed in the 18u girls singles. Now to keep trying to move up the ITF ladder and some Brit Tours.
Iustina had a busy week in Windsor. Runner up in 18u. Winner of the 16U & Runner up in 16u Doubles.
SOCIAL MEDIA
There has been an improvement on this over the past month, please keep up the good work as this really helps with our Social Media content!
The use of social media is a great marketing tool, in particular for the younger generation, so we would really encourage all our players whenever they use social media, Instagram, Facebook, X (twitter) etc to please tag us in your tennis related posts. Whether that be tournament results/ achievements, videos of training, a day out at a tournament etc to tag Unique Tennis in any of these tennis related posts. We can then easily share them and it’s great way of gaining exposure for the academy.
Class 4 Kids
In the coming weeks look out for an email from the team as we look to move a lot of our admin online. We will be working with a company called class 4 kids, where with a link we send out you will be able to create an account for each player. This will be very beneficial for things such as squad attendance and registers among other things.
REMEMBERING ALAN JONES – A BEAUTIFUL EVENING AT HAZELWOOD
Remembering Alan Jones 💖..,,, a beautiful evening at Hazelwood for family, friends, Unique Tennis players & club members to reminisce, smile & tell those Alan stories. He is missed every single day but he has brought us all together to be strong for one another
June NEWSLETTER
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