Welcome to your club newsletter from Rackets Academy! The weather may be heating up, but the tennis isn’t slowing down at your Rackets academy! This week we discuss some amazing success from our younger players, we share some BIG news coming up next month about summer tennis, and reveal the winners of our Mini Chalenger Series. We also have some important Save the Dates for upcoming events and tours to take note of. Also, make sure you take a look at our wonderful sponsor offers for our Rackets Academy members.
You Met Him Here First!!- Laurits Oestergaard
We are absolutely delighted and so very very proud to congratulate our Rackets Elite Performance player Laurits as he competes this week in Athens, Greece at the IMG Future Stars. This tournament is the most important and prestigious event for the worlds BEST Under 12 years, next generation tennis players. and only 24 children are slected to attend. Elite Performance Coach Mariano Pettigrosso is accompanying Laurits on this amazing journey. Not only will Laurits play against the best 24 boys worlwide, but he will get the opportunity to attend Educational workshops in Nutrition, Wellness, Media training and more. Every match is played in front of a large crowd, with chair umpires, linesmen and ballkids. WOW! Words cannot express how proud the whole Rackets family is!
if you would like to be like Laurits, learn more about our fulltime tennis program : HERE
Elite and Performance Program:
Our Elite and Performance players have been busy overseas and locally. A huge CONGRATULATIONS to our Elite player Timmy who has had a stellar week in Tennis Europe: Albania . Following up his terrific week in Tirana, Timmy competed this week at National Sport Park posting more amazing results; Semi Finalist in boith Singles and Doubles) Fantastic results Timmy.
For info about the Elite program click HERE
It’s getting hot in here…..
The weather is definitely getting hot, hot, HOTTER! But don’t despair that your tennis days are numbered until after the summer as we have BIG NEWS coming soon that may solve this issue. STAY TUNED!!
Tournament News
European Travel in July
Exciting news!!! Rackets Academy intends to travel as a team through Europe in July! The first week we will be attending a training camp in Barcelona and then onto play Tournaments in either France or Spain at Tennis Europe events . This will be an exciting opportunity to train in an amazing facility in Spain and compete against the worlds best throughout Europe!. For more info on this exciting event, click HERE
Upcoming Events
There are lots of tournaments coming up! For all details and entry please go to our website HERE
29th-30th Apr Mixed Doubles (-5 UTR) Intermediate Level
01 May – 07 May 2023 Rackets Academy Tournament Travel – Tennis Europe – U14,U16 Heydar Aliyev, Baku, Azerbaijan (WK1)
5th-14th May U16 Boys & Girls Tennis Emirates Event
08 May – 14 May 2023 Rackets Academy Tournament Travel – Tennis Europe – U14,U16 Heydar Aliyev, Baku, Azerbaijan (WK2)
22 May – 27 May 2023 Rackets Academy Tournament Travel – Tennis Europe – U14 Aphrodite Hills G3, Kouklia Paphos, Cyprus
MATCHPLAY
Each week at both the Taj Hotel on the Palm, and at Al Barari, we offer match play practice for any of our Rackets players. Each week, please register for the Taj with jdp@racketsacademy.ae or 0506745081 For the schedule for TAj Hotel (which also includes pool and beach passes for parents- how awesome is that?!) click here: TAJ SCHEDULE MATCH PLAY For the Al Barari schedule click here: AL BARARI MATCH PLAY SCHEDULE
Mini Challenger Tour: Masters Event!
After several months of Mini Challenger Tour, the grand finale was played April 22/23. The Masters Event has conculded and we say congrats to the following Master Champions:
Red- Shanelle D’Souza
Orange- Tamirlan Koslov
Green – Langdi Cao
And a word from our wonderful sponsors……
Reloved Furniture DXB: A special promo for Rackets Members – 20% off all pieces available and for all commissioned projects (valid until 30 June 2023) www.relovedfurnituredxb.com or whatsapp 0563887789 for more info.
Media One and Studio One are delighted to offer a fabulous deal to our Rackets Members. If any Rackets Academy members book for the Coronation before Thursday, they will enjoy an additional discount! Don your best Red, White and Blue and come along to watch King Charles become…. well King Charles! Rumour has it there will be Coronation Quiche on the menu. Details below:
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