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MLTC Annual Report 2020
The 48thANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the Manly Lawn Tennis Club Ltd are attached.
MLTC Annual Report 2020 Financial Statements
Copies of the Financial Statements have been posted on the club’s notice board.
Virginia Longfellow
MLTC Secretary
MLTC Klub Komp Starts Thurs Oct 29
Entries are now open for new 💥Thursday afternoon social comp starting October 29 for 5 weeks from 3.30 – 5pm.💥
We have two courts reserved, so we need 4 pairs to commit to 5 weeks on a Thursday afternoon at the above times.
Players may enter as ladies doubles, mixed doubles or men’s double pairs.
Format: 3 set matches. Each set won earns you 2 points plus one point for the win. Total 7 points for a 3 set win. If sets are incomplete points will be allocated for sets won only. You will play each team twice with the last week as play offs for places.🏆
Sign up below online by October 22. Draw will be available by October 27.
There are a very limited number of teams so sign up quickly as it is first in best dressed!!
Looking forward to a competitive Thursday afternoon.🎾😁
Regards
Melinda Gray
Komp Captain
Relaxed Restrictions for Outdoor Dining from 16 Oct
13 October 2020
The new restrictions will allow hospitality venues with outdoor areas and outdoor seated music performances to increase capacity in a COVID Safe way.
The eased restrictions will start from Friday 16 October 2020. Under the new rules:
- hospitality venues can allow one person for every two square metres for outdoor areas. This previously was one person per four square metres
- up to 500 people can attend outdoor seated music performances and rehearsals for venues complying with the four square metre rule. This previously was a total of 20 people.
All businesses and venues must use electronic methods such as QR codes to record and keep contact details.
Restaurants, cafes and bars that have outdoor seating sections will be able to increase capacity in a COVID Safe way with the relaxed two square metre rule.
Venues and organisers of outdoor music performances and rehearsals must have a COVID Safety Plan in place.
Source: NSW Govn
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MANLY LAWN TENNIS CLUB LIMITED ABN 59 001 063 074
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Clubhouse, corner of Raglan and Belgrave Streets, Manly on Saturday 7th November 2020 at 4pm.
AGENDA:
- To confirm and sign, as a correct record, the Minutes of the Extraordinary General Meeting held on Saturday 21st December, 2019.
- Business arising from the minutes.
- Presentation of Annual Report from the President.
- Secretary’s Report.
- Treasurer’s Report
- To receive and consider the Profit and Loss Accounts, the Balance Sheets and the Report of the Directors.
- To elect the Directors: President, two Vice – Presidents, Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Secretary.
- To elect the members of the Committee: Assistant Hon. Secretary/Treasurer, Social Secretary, Club Captain, Assistant Club Captain, and other Honorary positions in accordance with Clause 40. To elect Badge team selectors in accordance with Clause 46
- Life Membership – Ron Jeffs
- To confirm the appointment of Hall Jackson Pty Ltd as the company Auditors for the current financial year.
- Approval of annual honorariums for the Secretary, Club Captain, Bar Manager and Treasurer.
- To transact any other business which, under the Constitution of the Company, may be transacted at an Annual General Meeting.
- Any other business
Rafael Nadal Routs Novak Djokovic at French Open to Catch Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal won his 20th Grand Slam men’s singles championship to tie Roger Federer’s record. It was Nadal’s 13th title at the French Open.
New York Times: Christopher Clarey
Neither Novak Djokovic nor Roger Federer could resist Rafael Nadal on Sunday.
Nadal made astonishingly quick work of them both in the French Open final, overwhelming Djokovic, the world’s No. 1 player, 6-0, 6-2, 7-5, to equal Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam singles titles.
It was quite possibly Nadal’s finest performance at Roland Garros, which sounds like a reach considering that he had already won 12 Grand Slam singles title on the same rectangle of red clay.
But there was nothing unlucky about No. 13. He was on target from the opening game, breaking Djokovic’s serve under the closed roof at the Philippe Chatrier Court. Nadal, 34 years old but still an irresistible force, ripped groundstrokes with depth and purpose, hunted down drop shots, read Djokovic’s mind and serve and kept his unforced errors to a strict minimum. He made just two in the opening set — one of those on the opening point — and 14 in the match, giving his more erratic and increasingly edgy rival little time or space to find his mojo.
Djokovic, the 2016 French Open champion, is one of only two men to beat Nadal at Roland Garros. He had defeated Nadal in their last three Grand Slam matches against each other.
The most recent of those came at the 2019 Australian Open final, where Djokovic overwhelmed Nadal, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, in what Djokovic still maintains was the finest performance of his career.
But that rout took place on a hardcourt, Djokovic’s best surface, at the major tournament he has won most often. Sunday’s payback came in Nadal’s kingdom.
How Swiatek’s sports psychologist honed her mental game
WTA Insider speaks with sports psychologist Daria Abramowicz about the perils of professional tennis and the importance of training the mind as much as the body.
Daria Abramowicz can think of no better research lab for sports psychology than the high-stakes, high-stress world of Grand Slam tennis. The 33-year-old Warsaw native has served as Polish phenom Iga Swiatek’s sports psychologist for nearly two years, traveling with Swiatek’s team to big events to help address the challenges of playing on the tour.
The 19-year-old has been an unstoppable force in Paris, booking a spot in her first Slam final in just her second main draw appearance at Roland Garros. Unseeded and ranked No.54, Swiatek paved her own way over the fortnight, defeating last year’s finalist Marketa Vondrousova in the first, playing pitch-perfect tennis to oust top seed Simona Halep in a 6-1, 6-2 masterclass, in the Round of 16, and showing no signs of nerves or pressure as she played as the clear favorite to defeat Martina Trevisan in the quarterfinals and Nadia Podoroska in the semifinals. Swiatek is now the first Polish woman to make the Roland Garros in the Open and just the second all-time, following Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, who was a runner-up in 1939.
It is rare to see a young athlete not only employ a full-time sports psychologist but to also speak so openly about her struggles and successes in handling the psychological strains of being a professional athlete.
“I just believe that mental toughness is probably the most important thing in tennis right now because everybody can play on the highest level,” Swiatek told reporters after her fourth-round win. “But the ones that are tough and that can handle the pressure are the biggest ones.
“She just made me smarter. I know more about sports and I know more about psychology and I can understand my own feelings and I can say them out loud.”
“So I always wanted to develop in that way. I was working with some other psychologists, two probably when I was younger. But Daria was the best I could get because she just understands me very well and she knows me very well and she can kind of read my mind, which is weird.
“She was a sailor so she has experience in sports and she was a coach so she has the full package. She just made me smarter. I know more about sports and I know more about psychology and I can understand my own feelings and I can say them out loud.
“She just makes my confidence level higher.”
AFR: If you want to be healthy at 80, you have to start by 50
Thirty years ago, a 54-year-old medical scientist and British health bureaucrat named Norman Lazarus was settling down to a nice dinner with his wife while on holiday in Switzerland. As he put his napkin on his lap, he saw the bulge of his middle-aged belly protruding over his belt.
Fast-forward to now: Lazarus is a twinkly-eyed, sprightly 84-year-old. Healthwise, he’s in the pink. He’s an endurance cyclist, has recently published a book, and is still working at King’s College London on unravelling the secrets of healthy ageing. His wife, June, who joined him on his health journey, is 87 and also has no age-related illnesses.
Lazarus deployed his medical know-how to develop a simple “trinity” of actions that, if started during middle-age, give you a solid shot at warding off the 20 or so avoidable diseases of age, including cardiovascular disease, pre-stroke hypertension, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, dementia, non-alcoholic liver disease, peripheral artery disease, and certain kinds of cancers.
His book, The Lazarus Strategy: How to Age Well and Wisely (Hachette Australia), is plain-speaking and impassioned. Get started, and get started now – not just for your own sake, but for the sake of our societies’ struggling health systems and ageing demographics.
He has become not only an evangelist, but a guinea pig. Tests on him and other elderly members of his cycling club show cardiovascular function equivalent to inactive people 30 years their junior, and their immune systems are still functioning at high capacity.
Ageing and slowing down is inevitable, he says, but disease and infirmity is not.
Club Championships Entries Close October 11
Event draws will be published on October 14 for the weekend matches starting October 18.
Social tennis will be limited while the championships are on so please remember to enter the club champs while there is room.
Note that you need to be a financial member to enter the championships or to play social. For your convenience, the Secretary advises that the club’s bank account details are: BSB 062 197 Account 010 000 562. Cost for full membership is $450, please include your name as a reference.
Due to COVID-19 regulations, guests can not play social unless they intend to join the club.
If you need a partner to enter, please contact me (Denis) and I will try to find you one.
Finally, if you book a court in club hours and then decide not to play, remember to cancel your booking. Otherwise the court is left vacant and another member misses out.
Denis Crowley
MLTC Club Captain
Serving Is Mental. So Stop Thinking So Much.
Some of the best players in the world have struggled with one of the most basic shots in tennis at the French Open.
PARIS — Raffaella Reggi rose to 13th in the world in women’s tennis in the late 1980s despite a serve so balky she once recorded 28 double faults in a match in Rome. With the shrill voices of fans pleading with her to use an underhand motion still ringing in her ears, Reggi said she walked into the press room afterward and professed, “I have no idea how to serve.”
Watching a player repeatedly start points by hitting balls into the net or, in the German Alexander Zverev’s case, beyond the baseline, can be excruciating.
“I had some flashbacks,” Reggi said of Zverev’s double-fault-filled performance in his United States Open final defeat to Dominic Thiem.
It’s akin to actors forgetting their lines during a soliloquy. You sit there, helpless to assist, willing them to get back in the flow. If all the court’s a stage, double faults are a tennis player’s inner heckler lashing out.
Mary Carillo, the NBC analyst and former French Open doubles champion, said, “It’s almost always the same culprit: nerves.”
How the anxiety seeps into the technical execution varies. It can be a wandering ball toss that throws off one’s rhythm or a tightening of the limbs that makes it harder to bend the knees and execute the natural arm swing. The challenge for those struggling with their serves, Carillo said, is to fight the instinct to bend the ball into the box slowly and carefully and instead accelerate their racket head speed.
“More action at the point of contact gives more margin, not less,” she said.
The serve is the only stroke in the sport where the player exercises complete control of the moment. It is a stand-alone action, so when the moment goes awry, there is stand-alone accountability.
The 23-time major singles champion Serena Williams, who has one of the most potent serves in the game, said that on those rare occasions when her best weapon is misfiring, “My brain is like: ‘Oh, my God! I never miss this!’”
The embarrassment of being a professional unable to execute this elemental shot faithfully can be acute.
“I mean, in practice I make the serves,” said an exasperated Coco Gauff, who opened the French Open stalking the baseline between service points yelling, “Focus!” as she piled up 12 double faults in a victory against Johanna Konta.
In the next round, Gauff had 19 in a three-set loss to Martina Trevisan of Italy. The 16-year-old Gauff has averaged almost 15 doubles in her last four matches.
“It’s just confidence, just a mind thing,” said Gauff, who added: “I don’t really think it’s a technical thing. I mean, we talk to a lot of people. Sometimes I mess up and hit a bad toss. I mean, when I’m out there on the court, I know I double-fault a lot, but I try not to think of it.”
Whisperer Serving Tip: Lighten up on your grip to accelerate the racket head. Most players ‘choke the chicken under stress’ particularly on serve.
Are Underhand Serves Underhanded? Tennis Is Opening Up to the Crafty Tactic
Players concede that the serve can be a good tactic against players who stand far, far back from the baseline. And they know when opponents are trying to show them up.
Neither the pioneer nor the present-day popularizer of the underhand serve has been in Paris this year during the French Open.
Michael Chang, who won the tournament with a clutch use of the serve in 1989, is back in the United States, spending time with his wife, Amber, and their three young children. Nick Kyrgios is back in Australia, spending time on social media as a freelance tennis critic, which should make for some testy conversations with his peers when he finally does return to the circuit in person.
But Chang’s and Kyrgios’s legacy has been on frequent display in the first week of the Grand Slam tournament.
Underhand serves, once broadly considered underhanded in the sport, have been popping up in the autumnal gloom like mushrooms in the French countryside.
Peak season may have been Wednesday. In the stretch of a couple of hours, you could watch Alexander Bublik hold serve with an underhander (it seems time for a punchy, one-word term), see Sara Errani save a match point with one and watch Mackenzie McDonald save nothing at all with a floating, sacrificial offering of an underhander that the 12-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal pounced on for a return winner en route to a 6-0, 6-1, 6-3 victory.
“If he’s winning, it’s a good tactic; if he’s losing, it’s a bad tactic,” Nadal said. He added that, for example, it was “not a good tactic” for Mackenzie. For Bublik, he said, “if that works,” it was “a good tactic.”
Unfortunately for Bublik, it did not work often enough. He lost his second-round match to Lorenzo Sonego in a duel that was also brimming with other tennis exotica, like serve-and-volley tactics and tweeners.