Dear Members
We hope everyone has had a wonderful week. Here is all the recent news from your tennis club.
You will find details of the Rackets Academy Championship 2021 with a prize purse of $60k USD. We also have news of the first ever Ten-Pro Event called the Dubai Bowl coming up in January.
Information on how to register your children in our very popular kids camps this festive holiday is included this week and news of the Ladies League fancy dress seasonal tournament. Coach Aminat Quadri is responsible for running the Ladies League. Read about her tennis journey and her feelings about the league. Enjoy!
Festive Holiday Kids Club
We will once again be running our very popular kids camps this festive holiday. At various locations every Thursday to Sunday. You can register your children now and enjoy a variety of activities including tennis, splash session, Xfit kids, football, Zumba, dodgeball and boxing to name a few. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFROMATION
Motor City Tennis Camp
Dates: 12 – 21 December 2021
Elite Performance Camp
Dates: 12 – 21 December 2021
Fitness First Lakes Multi-Sport Camp
Dates: 12 – 30 December 2021
Fitness First Town Center Multi-Sport Camp- Springs
Dates: 12 – 30 December 2021
Fitness First Mudon Multi-Sport Camp
Dates: 12 – 23 December 2021
Pre-Tournament Ten Pro Camp
Dates: 14 – 16 January 2022 – Friday – Saturday – Sunday
Call 052 992 8595 9 or follow the link to find out more
Rackets Academy Championship 2021
December 12th – 31st 2021
Total Prize Money: $60k USD (220,000 AED)
Since 2017 Rackets Academy has hosted the largest Tennis Tournament in the Middle East. With over 350 entries across 12 categories of all ages. The best players from around the region travel to Dubai to compete at our prestigious venues over the holiday season. With good packages on hotel stays for all budgets and also training camps running alongside it is the ideal competitive tennis holiday for the whole family. Players are guaranteed 2/3 matches as they can enter multiple categories:
In 2021 Rackets Academy Championship’s will be
a qualifying event for the first ever Middle East PTT Tour event with 4 places in the
Main Draw available.
Men’s Doubles: 26-31st Dec
Men’s Pre-Qualifying: 26-29 Dec
Men’s Qualifying: 30-31 Dec
$30k Main Draw Week 1: 3-9 Jan
$30k Main Draw Week 2: 10-16 Jan
Eligibility
Pre-Qualifying: Anyone
Qualifying: UTR Rating 8+
Main Draw: Rating 12.5+ & Ranking (200-2000)
Categories Played : 12-24 Dec
Boys & Girls Singles: 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 &
Under
Boys & Girls Doubles: 14 & under
Women’s Singles
Mixed Doubles
Men’s +35’s Singles
Dubai Bowl
January 17th-23rd 2022
Rackets Academy are honored to be hosting the first ever Ten-Pro Event called the Dubai Bowl. Over 350 of the world’s Top Junior Players will arrive in Dubai to compete over 7 days. If you are between the ages of 9 and 15 year old then come take on the best Juniors in the world here in Dubai. Registration is still open.
Ten Pro Junior Tour Player Package
TEN-PRO works with the biggest academies in the world of tennis, like Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, IMG Bollettieri, Kim Clijsters, Boris Becker and is hosted in many cities throughout the world from Tokyo, Paris, Melbourne and Miami to name a few. Registration is still open.
3 Day Pre-Tournament Camp:14-16th January 2021
Venue: Motor City
Tournaments
U12 Boys and Girls tournament will be held the weekend of 3rd December. Registration is now open
U16 Boys and Girls tournament will be held the weekend of 3rd December. Registration is now open
Simon Roberts and Garv Bahl are through to the final of the Mens Singles Open, date of the final is to be confirmed.
J5 ATF Bahrain
There were three elite players from Rackets Academy who took part in the J5 ATF held in Bahrain this week.
One player was in the qualification rounds and two in the Main Draw (main event). Debarshi who was in the qualification rounds was eliminated the first round of the qualifiers. Ege won his first match in the main draw against a player from Bahrain beating him 6/3 6/1. He was then eliminated in the second round against a player from Ukraine 6/2 7/5 and Aryan winning his first round against a player from Malaysia 6/1 6/2 then losing his second-round singles against a player from Jordan 6/0 6/2
Ege and his partner from India won their first round of doubles against the same player he lost to in singles from Ukraine and a player from Israel 6/2 7/6 (7/3) then losing in the quarterfinals against the top seeds 6/4 6/0
Aryan and his partner lost in the first round of doubles again a Turkish and an Indian player in a tight match 6/2 5/7 6/10
Ege will be taking part on the next J4 ITF tournament happening in Bahrain starting Monday and is in the main draw.
Profile of Aminat Quadri, RA Coach and Ladies League Co-ordinator
Aminat has been associated with tennis her whole life as a player and a coach. She started tennis at the age of 6 and has played junior ITF in literally every country in Africa.
At 13, she was the most outstanding player in the girls U18 categories in Nigeria.
Aminat has been coaching for over 9 years. She played college tennis in the University of Port Harcourt where she studied Accounting. She won the University Games and qualified for world University Games.
Her love for tennis has encouraged her to introduce young players to the game as she emphasizes that TENNIS is a game of LOVE and should be experienced by all. While in college, she organized Catch them Young (red balls, yellow balls) programs and secured sponsorships for aspiring future champions.
Together with her love for kids and her love for tennis she strives to create a warm, lively and safe environment for kids to learn and enjoy tennis and at the same time encourage aspiring future juniors.
Aminat told us that running the Ladies League has been one of the most exciting responsibility she’s had to take on in a while, as its beautiful to watch the ladies come together under one umbrella to enjoy tennis in the most competitive and social manner. Having to attend to every query, requests and dispute has further proven to show her how genuinely interested these ladies are in the league!
Animat finds it really satisfying that the Rackets Academy Ladies League players now get a UTR ranking. PLAY LOCALLY, GET INTERNATIONAL RECOGNIZATION.
Ladies League Results week 8
17th November 2021
Queens of the Court v Aces
6-1, 7-5
6-3, 6-1
Queens of the Court win
Baseliners v Bulldogs
5-7, 6-7
6-0, 6-3
Baseliners win
No Strings Attached v Drop Shot Divas
4-6, 6-3 (6-10)
6-3, 4-6 (10-6)
No Strings Attached win
Matchmakers v Rackettes
4-6, 3-6
6-2, 6-1
Matchmakers win
Radu’s Rebels v Match Point
2-6, 6-2, (10-4)
6-4, 6-4
Radu’s Rebels win
Christmas Fancy Dress Social Tournament 15th December 2021
Save the date ladies as we will be organizing a fancy dress event to mark the festive break. All ladies are invited to play.
As tradition dictates, teams are encouraged to dress their coaches! Dig out your best costumes or Weasley sweaters. The wilder the better.
Urban Playground Partnership
Rackets Academy are delighted to announce that we now have a relationship with Urban Playground.
Urban Playground is located at the rooftop of Apex Atrium, Motor City. The facility spans an impressive 20,000 square foot of indoor and outdoor eco-friendly designed space. The activities on offer are aimed at active people, both novice and professionals, who want to try their hand at different sporting concepts. We offer the following sporting activities: touch tennis, spec tennis, platform tennis, pickleball, 360Ball, cricket, baseball batting cages and panna football. Prices are from 40aed per hour.
Urban Playground also offers ample free parking, changing facilities with showers, retail space selling sporting essentials, coffee on arrival and even ice-cold towels to refresh you after every session.
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Have a super week ahead!
Rackets Academy