Sonoma Valley Tennis Association
Newsletter
December 2011 | | | |
Best Wishes to All for a Happy Holiday Season!
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM YOUR SVTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS! This has been a busy year for the Board of Directors. Here is a recap of some of the things we have worked
on: - Rally for the Cure - $3937 donated to Susan Komen Fund
- Resurfacing of Maxwell Courts 1, 2, and 3 in US Open Blue
- Continuing development of teaching programs with USTA Pro Sam Levy and his summer sub, USPTA
Pro Jordan Walker
- Grant monies from NorCal ($2500) and USTA ($3000 pending)
- Free Adult Clinics for Beginners and Returning Players
- Monthly Friday evening social tennis - Corky Rosengren.
- USTA blended lines on courts 1 and 2
- Gorin Tennis Academy USTA Junior
Open and Challenger
- County Parks - thin and prune trees
- NorCal 2010 ACES Outstanding Community Tennis Association Award
- QuickStart program - Lisa Biddle
- Annual Free
Junior Summer Program -Tuesday evenings
- English Camp Tennis Program
with CommonBond Foundation
- USTA Halloween PlayDay - a NorCal
event
- Bodil Sorenson Memorial Junior Tennis Fund
It's been a busy year
and next year promises to be interesting. We know that the courts at Maxwell look better than the County maintained
courts at Larson! Do you have ideas? Please convey them to a Board member, come to a Board meeting, or consider taking a turn
on the Board.
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SVTA membership dues for 2012 will be invoiced by email at the end of Dec. 2011.
The annual fee for adults
will remain at $75, no charge to under 18. In 2012, we will introduce a family annual fee of $100. Members outside
of the immediate Sonoma area pay $40. SVTA membership is required of all players on SVTA teams. Dues cover the expenses of Maxwell courts maintenance, as well as the costs for all SVTA programs.
SVTA is solely responsible for Maxwell courts.; the County does not assist in maintenance cost.
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Sonoma Valley Tennis Association extends sincere gratitude to Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley for its most recent
generous contribution and continuing support of our Sonoma Valley Youth Programs.
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 At the end of 2011, the SVTA board said a reluctant goodbye to stalwart member Barbara Thoreson, and of course, Swede
Thoreson. The Thoresons have given Sonoma tennis community many years of service and devotion and have been prime movers of
junior tennis as well as diligent caretakers of the Maxwell courts.
Incoming 2012 board members are Corky
Rosengren and Isaac Raboy. The board looks forward to their energy and ideas.
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BODIL SORENSON JUNIOR TENNIS MEMORIAL FUND |
Bodil Sorensen, SVTA junior
tennis volunteer extraordinaire, and captain of SVTA and USTA teams for many years passed away earlier this year. |
 Bodil is being honored by her family and her tennis friends with a memorial fund which has been set up for the support and
expansion of the SVTA junior tennis program. Tennis for youth was a life-time commitment for Bodil.
SVTA wishes
to thank those who have so generously donated to this fund. The total of donations now exceeds $7,000. Please make
any donations in memory of Bodil Sorensen payable to: SVTA Junior Tennis. Please note Bodil's name in the check memo area. Mail to: SVTA, P.O. Box 766, El Verano, CA 95433 |
The trees at
Maxwell have been thinned and pruned. Sonoma County Regional Parks worked with the Ecology Center to develop a plan for the
health of the tree stand adjacent Maxwell Courts #4 and 5. The pruning has achieved light penetration and the crown
thinning and weight reduction minimizes hazards from imbalance. Regional Parks will continue to work with the Ecology
Center to develop a long term succession plan for the oaks in this area.
Throughout
the lengthy planning process, SVTA worked along with Regional Park Operations and is grateful for their cooperation
in developing a plan that balances all interests.
 
Prior to Pruning
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MAXWELL COURTS - BLENDED
LINES |
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SVTA's application to USTA, we were advised that they will make an award of $3,000 in grant monies to assist witht the Maxwell
resurfacing of courts, 1, 2, and 3 (total cost of $18,375). USTA specifically directed that the total resurfacing work include
blended lines on the courts for junior play. Blended lines are a
major component of the USTA's national 10 and Under Tennis initiative, and are being adopted on courts across the country.
 
We agreed to do two courts.
The pale blue lines lay out two 36' junior game
courts on court #1 and a 60' junior game court on court #2.
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In May, member Corky Rosengren proposed
to the board that SVTA host a regular social event for members, such as a round robin. Great idea, said the board, and
since you thought of it......................
 Corky did, in fact, go off and organize an
extremely popular and successful series of monthly Friday night round robin socials. When the light changed in fall,
she moved the event to the high school courts, and, undaunted, the social portion moved offsite. The holidays
and the rain will take a bite out of the schedule, but watch for a future announcement of the next Friday Night Social. We are happy to add that Corky has generously joined the SVTA board. Cheryl
Sweeney and Corky Rosengren |
 Event Lighting by Eve Priestley |
 2011 USTA Play Recently Completed:Sonoma Combo Women 7.5, Corky Rosengren, Capt. Finished 4W/4L USTA 2012 Senior League Teams in Registration Senior Women, 3.5, Corky Rosengren, Capt Senior Women, 4.0, Cheryl Sweeney, Capt |
SONOMA-NAPA-MARIN
WOMEN'S TENNIS LEAGUE (SNMWTL)
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Fall 2011 SNMWTL Season Wrap-up |
The first half of the SNMWTL 2011/2012 season is over.
The spring half will begin in January. The capts of the three Sonoma teams have checked in:
 From Barbara Hall, Capt. A2With a close second place finish of the
2010-2011 season in the A3 division, the team was brought up to A2. The growing skills of the team's players, coupled
with many successful doubles' partnerships, have given the SVTA A2 team a solid start in the rankings. In the A2's 12
team division, SVTA is in a 3-way tie for 6th place, with the 5th place team ahead by only 1 point. This is the team's
most successful foray into the A2 division. The players are thrilled with their results thus far, and are determined
to stay on course for the second half of the season.
Sue Vargas, Capt. B1 Hard to believe that Sue often had a struggle filling her game day rosters,
and that she had to seek subs so as not to default. Her B1 team pulled out a second place, 84 points, just 4 points behind the No. 1 team. It's looking good for the Spring season.  From Judy Muller, Capt. B2
This fall half of the season is the first
time our team has ever gone undefeated! Our players are very team oriented
and work together well! We hope we can continue our good play into Spring
2012! - Also am attaching a photo of our wonderful team mascot and forever helper! Art Deleray, B2 Main Man |
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JUNIOR TENNIS - SUMMER/FALL
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It's been a busy Junior summer season. Our intrepid Sam
Levy took a summer leave and brought in teaching pro Jordan Walker to oversee the Junior program. To kick off summer,
Jordan coached the annual SVTA Junior summer camp on Tuesday evenings, in June and July, and finished
off in August with English Camp, a CommonBond joint venture. There followed the NorCal
USTA Halloween Partywith Sam and Jordan, together with Lisa Dedmore and Michelle Skipwith of NorCal, and completion
of the 2011 programs with the USTA Junior Open and Challengerin November, co-directed by Sam Levy. |
SONOMA USTA JUNIOR OPEN & CHALLENGER
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2011 GORIN TENNIS ACADEMY SONOMA
OPEN & CHALLENGER
 On the weekend of November 5-6, SVTA's Maxwell Farms Tennis
Courts hosted the USTA NorCal Gorin Tennis Academy Sonoma Junior Open & Challenger. Over 68 entrants from all of Northern California, competed on the courts at Maxwell
and Sonoma Valley High School. Although rain ended play on Saturday afternoon, the weather on Sunday was workable and
the tournament continued to completion.
Tournament Directors: Sam
Levy and
Arthur Petushkov, Gorin Tennis Academy
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 Sam Levy, USPTA, is our SVTA teaching pro. He offers
private and semi-private lessons, and conducts group and team clinics for adults and juniors. You can contact Sam at 707-738-7694 |
SVTA
President Emeritus Marilyn Mertens has quacked in. She wants to be certain the membership acquaints itself with the INTENNIS website --- it's informative and interesting. We miss your electricity on the courts, MM. Good luck in the Rose Bowl. Go, Ducks!
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What Strings
do the Pros Use? By Noel Barbulesco - Member USRSA Tennis players love to ask racquet stringers "what strings do
the pros use?" I did a little research and found out what equipment some of the top pros are using today.
Check them out. Novak Djokovic Head You Tek Speed Pro with Wilson Natural
Gut in the mains and Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power in the crosses at 55 lbs tension. Kim Clijsters Babolat Pure Drive Team with Babolat VS Touch Natural Gut at 58 lbs tension. Roger
Federer Wilson K Factor K Six-One Tour 90 with Wilson Natural Gut in the
mains (55 lbs) and Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power in the crosses (52 lbs). Maria Sharapova Prince 03 Speedport Black with Babolat VS Team Natural Gut at 56 lbs tension. Rafael
Nadal Babolat AeroPro Drive with Babolat RPM Blast at 55 lbs. Serena Williams Wilson K Blade Team with Wilson Natural Gut
at 65 lbs tension. Andy Murray Head You Tek Radical
Pro with Babolat VS Team Natural Gut in the mains and Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power Rough at 62 lbs tension. Vera Zvonereva Prince 03 White with Gamma Live Wire Professional at 55 lbs (mains) and 53 lbs (crosses). Jo Wilfred Tsonga Wilson Kobra Tour with Luxilon Big Banger
Alu Power Rough at 62 lbs (mains) and 59.5 lbs (crosses). Jelena Jankovic Prince 03 Speedport Pro White with Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power in the mains and Prince Natural Gut
in the crosses at 64 lbs. |
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Racquet
Stringing
Noel Barbulesco
(h) 938-1274
(c) 364-9211
(p/u & delivery
to Maxwell and Larson)
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SVTA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2011 Erin Collins, PresidentGenevieve Blanchard, VP/Secty
Mary Oswald, Treasurer Members-at-Large Noel Barbulesco * Lisa Dedmore Barbara
Hall * Molly Johnston Mike Kelly * Bruce Lamoreaux Fred
Merrill * Judy Muller Isaac Raboy * Corky Rosengren Lorna
Sheridan * Darcy Stephens |
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