Newsletter number 3 - Pickleball Holland

Newsletter number 3 April 30 2016 Dear Participants, We present you our third Newsletter. This Newsletter will provide you with information about: •
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The time schedule Participants and countries Level brackets The Raffle Public Transport Bike-­‐ and walking tour Meeting of representatives European countries The situation These last weeks were very hectic. We had a lot of unexpected surprises like people that can’t come because of injuries, family matters or because they had forgotten that they filled in a registration form some months ago! Let’s hope that everybody who is on the list now can and will come to Amsterdam! Due to these cancellations, we have still some spots available. But…. deadline for registration is the 5th of May! The best pickleballplayers of Europe, Asia and the USA We’re so proud that 140 pickleballplayers from 12 different countries will come to our tournament in Amsterdam. This will be the most international pickleball tournament ever! We have people from: Belgium Czech Republic England Finland France India Netherlands Scotland Spain Ukraine USA Wales It would be nice if one person of each country can bring their flag! We’re more than happy with 5 US Open medal winners coming to Amsterdam. They’ll tell us their secrets! Our youngest participant is 16 years and the oldest is 84! And because it’s a skill level event, they may play against each other. You can find a list of all participants at the end of this newsletter. Raffle for the Dutch Pickleball Association April 24th the foundation of the Dutch Pickleball Association took place. We’re very proud that we can work on the growth of pickleball on a national level now. We also became a member of the international Federation of Pickleball. The next thing we need as association is equipment and money. And that’s why we’ll organize a raffle. Starting Friday night you can buy lottery tickets. On Saturday night the raffle draw will be and all the lottery winners will be announced. You can help us in three ways: 1. bring gifts for the lottery 2. bring equipment for the Dutch Pickleball Association 3. buy lottery tickets Brackets We have 3 categories: women’s doubles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles. And we’ll play at three different levels: 4.0 and up, 3.5 and 2.0-­‐3.0. So all couples with at least one 4.0 and up player, will compete in the top group. You’ll play in a Round Robin system and after that semi-­‐finals, finals and a losers round or another Round Robin (depending on the amount of people). We assure you that you’ll play 5 games at least. The round robin games will be played 1 game till 15. The finals and probably also semi-­‐finals will be a full game (2 out of 3 games till 11) Because most European pickleballplayers do not know their ranking, all couples with 3.5 and below will start in one group. They will play some games in a round robin system and the results rank the couples in the advanced or the starters pool. There you’ll play more Round Robin and after that for the medals. There’ll be a trophy for the 1st place and a silver and bronze medal for the 2nd and 3rd place. We’ll do our best to give you the best tournament experience possible. And although we aren’t professionals, our goal is to take care of a smooth organization and give you all the opportunity to play pickleball at your level, meet old friends, making new ones and have fun! Time Schedule Date / Day Time? What? Where? Who? May 25th Wednesday 19:00 – 22:00 h Wednesday Night Clinic Sporthal de Pijp Jennifer Lucore Kyle Yates May 26th Thursday 12:00 – 14.30 h Highlight Bike Tour Mike’s Bike Kerkstraat 123 Bob Smutka b.smutka@gmail.com May 27th Friday 13:00 – 15:00 h Walking tour Secret courtyards Prinsengracht 203-­‐P Jan pickleballamsterdam@gmail.com 16.00-­‐
16.30 h Presentation The implementation of pickleball in a city Sporthal de Pijp Tessa Hexspoor Faculty of Lifestyle & Health tessahexspoor@hotmail.com 17:00 – 21:00 h Friday Night Clinic Referee Clinic Meet, Greet, Play Sporthal de Pijp Jennifer Lucore Kyle Yates Gigi LeMaster Seymour Rifkind May 28th Saturday 09:00 – 19:00 h 1st Tournament Day Sporthal de Pijp Pickleball Team 19.30 Dinner, Pubquiz, Draw of the Lottery Sporthal de Pijp Pickleball Team May 29th Sunday 8.30-­‐9.45 Meeting Pickleball Europe Sporthal de Pijp David Conover david@pickleballukraine.com 09:00 – 18:00 h 2nd Tournament Day Sporthal de Pijp Pickleball Team Sporthal de Pijp, Lizzy Ansinghstraat 88 Amsterdam City Bike Tour Thursday, May 26 from Mike's Bikes. Get a unique tour of Amsterdam (The City of Bikes) on a bike. 12:30 PM departure for a 2-­‐3 hour tour with a local guide. 25 Euros or 23 Euros if we get a group of 10 or more, which includes your rental bike from Mike's. Senior rate is 22 Euros. Please email Bob Smutka (who is organizing the tour) and Mike's Bikes to confirm. bsmutka@gmail.com Note that emails to Bob may take time to answer as he will be travelling May 8-­‐ May 23. Group needs to be flexible as 12:30 tour would be JUST our pickleballers. If we don't have enough, then we'd go on their regularly scheduled arrive at 11:45/ depart at 12:00 group tour. Mike's Bike Tours, Kerkstraat 123, 1017GE Amsterdam, 020-­‐622 7970 +31 20 622 7970 (when calling from an International phone) www.mikesbiketoursamsterdam.com Include AMS bike tour group picture from below. Walking tour along hidden courtyards Amsterdam has a lot of hidden courtyards. These were originally built by churches, private organizations or the city for widows or orphans as quiet urban oases within the busy and crowded city. There are approximately 40 such courtyards throughout Amsterdam. These courtyards are public, but are surrounded by private residences. Jan, the partner of one of our pickleball players, is willing to guide us through an amazing secret spots Tour along cortyards in the center of Old Amsterdam. This will happen Friday May 27, starting at 1 pm and ending at 3pm. “You might have been to Amsterdam before and seen all the great things. But what if the small things, every tourist walks past, are even more beautiful. The ‘Hofjestocht’ makes it possible to see the most beautiful secret places from Amsterdam.”
Ten persons max so don’t wait too long. Price: only €5,-­‐ We start at the Prinsengracht 203-­‐P, close to the Anne Frank House. If you feel like joining this amazing walking tour, please send an email to pickleballamsterdam@gmail.com Presentation about the implementation of pickleball in a community Tessa Hexspoor, a student at the college Inholland in Haarlem, has done research for her thesis
recently. We asked her to find out about the best way to implement pickelball in the city of Haarlem.
The preliminary results and findings will be presented on Friday, May 27th at 16:00 pm at the
International Pickleball Tournament in Amsterdam.
Location: Sporthal de Pijp. Time: 16.00-16.30
Hereby you’re invited you to come to this presentation. Please let Tessa know before May 20th, if you
are interested. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask them.
Tessa Hexspoor
E-mail: tessahexspoor@hotmail.com
Phone Number: 06-18458767
Meeting Pickleball Europe Pickleball is played in more and more European countries. So it’s time to gather and talk about our common interests. Sunday morning, May 29th, we have our first European meeting in Sporthal de Pijp. David Conover from Pickleball Ukraine is the initiator of this meeting and we’ll hope that every European country where pickleball is played can be represented in this meeting. We start at 8.30 and finish at 9.45. The competition committee will take care that the representatives won’t play before 10 am. Public Transport The quickest way to Sporthal de Pijp depends on your arrival. Using our Dutch public transport is very easy through : www.9292.nl/en This website also offers an Application 9292 on your mobile phone. In the Application you can go to Settings and choose your Language, which makes it very easy to use. There are many different ways to get to the location, averagely it takes around 30 – 40 minutes from most places in Amsterdam. If you know how to ride a bicycle, we would advice you to rent one. Available bus -­‐/ tram stops near Sporthal de Pijp: Bus-­‐ / tram stop Scheldestraat, Amsterdam Bus-­‐ / tram stop Waalstraat/Rooseveltlaan, Amsterdam Bus-­‐ / tram stop Cornelis Troostplein, Amsterdam Tram stop Albert Cuypstraat, Amsterdam (5 minutes walk) (10 minutes walk (2 minutes walk) (9 minutes walk) Side Info In our fourth and final Newsletter we will announce more information about the playing schedule, group sizes and more! If you have any modifications that might affect the schedule, we would appreciate it if you keep us informed with relevant information before May 5th! As you might already know, on Saturday 28th we have organized a dinner. We hope that everyone joins this event. It will be very lekker and gezellig! Specially because there’ll be a pubquiz about Amsterdam/Holland! Website Link : www.pickleballholland.nl We hope that everyone is settled by now. It is only a few weeks away! If you did miss newsletter 1 or 2, take a look at our website! And become a member of our facebookgroup Pickleball Tournament Amsterdam! With kind and sporty regards, The Pickleball Tournament Team Any questions or comments? Send us an email: pickleballamsterdam@gmail.com Participants Mhairi
Rodney
Patricia
Tuomo
Charlotte
Paul
Bart
Bonita
Stephen
Sue
Erik
Roger
Judy
Nicolas
Jean-Luc
Kassandra
Marioline
Caroline
Peter
Lorraine
Petra
Pim
Javier
Samantha
Marie-José
Nathan
Erika
David
Alan
Megan
Kathryn
Cyril
Brian
Alison
Atul
Lee
Klemens
Robert
Lisa
Gema
Evelyn
Leonardo
Gladys
Jiske
Colin
Marijke
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Adam
Amatkasmin
Angelil
Antikainen
Appleby
Arnold
Baere de
Baker-Dean
Besant
Baines
Bentsink
Birtwistle
Birtwistle
Bosignore
Bourgeois
Bourgeois
Bourgeois
Bozier
Bratton
BriggsHackford
Brocken
Burgers
Casares
Clayton
Cobben
Cole
Combée
Conover
David
David
Delderfield
Dirand
Eastgate
Eastgate
Edward
Featherby
Fischler
Foley
Foord
Garcia
Giesbers
Gonzalez
Gorissen
Groeneveld,
van
Hackford
Haggenburg
Faye
Roger
Sue
Dylan
Leo
Daniel
Alberto
Michael
Justin
Martin
Brian
Steve
Susie
Tim
Lesley
Wally
Betsy
Caroline
Diane
Jolanda
Daniel
Daniel
Mathias
Sara
Gigi
Jennifer
Sheena
Sheena
Clare
Tania
Julie
Rachel
Tom
Joep
Lenka
Maria
Antonia
Anne
Helga
Heidi
Caron
Jodi
Ville
Jukka
Carlos
Alberto
Hansen
Harrison
Harrison
Heijden, van
der
Heldoorn
Hernando
Hernando
Hess
Hess
Hobbs
Hook
Hughes
Hughes
HuntertWhitehous
Joffick
Juraschka
Kenniston
King
King
Klaassen
Knight
Van
Laarhoven
Lassfolk
Lassfolk
LeMaster
Lucore
MacDonald
Maclean-Bell
Maclean-Bell
Mason
Mercer
Meredith
Merkx
Merkx
Mišičková
Montero
Fernandez
Muijen, van
Muijen, van
Mullen
Newson
Oppenhuizen
Pellosniemi
Pellosniemi
Perez
Bernard
Paulette
John
Janet
Seymour
Emma
David
Diana
Irma
Marcos
Thea
Liz
Elaine
Gill
Susan
Bob
Jurren
Dymphna
Bernadette
Jeroen
Alan
Frans
Robin
Teresa
Dick
Marilyn
Tom
Krishna
Carine
Sébastien
Lars
Remco
Mees
Peter
Frances
Tjitte
Yolande
Philippe
Tanja
Richard
June
Maureen
David
Geoff
Harrison
Sue
Kyle
Powell
Powell
Price
Price
Rifkind
Robins
Rowe
Rowe
Rusche
Ryhanen
Schwab
Sepeda
Shallcross
Smith
Smith
Smutka
Snijders Blok
Snijders Blok
Snijders Blok
Snijders Blok
Speller
Steenbrugge,
van
Stolworthy
Stolworthy
Strangemore
Strangemore
Summer
Thakrar
Thesingh
Thiebault
Tooren, van
Tooren, van
Tooren, van
Turner
Turner
Veldhuis
Waal, de
Watry
Weijl
Welsford
Welsford
Wilson
Wood
Wood
Wood
Wood
Yates