psc vs taiping crc

Francis Loh brought a strong group from Taiping to play in the annual series vs PSC. They gave us a good fight... their first pair whacked Koay and Nordin 8 -1 ... and Albert and Teng Jin (first time they ever play together) were down 5 - 1 and I started to get worried... but our ladies, Pauline and Keiko made short work of their opponents and luckily Albert and Teng Jin got things sorted out and went on to win 8 - 5... and we went on to win all the other matches and finished the day up 6-1 ... Congrats to all the players and supporters... The club also won the series overall ....

Hard Court Resurfacing Update

The PSC has awarded a contract to resurface our 2 hard courts (courts 18 and 19). For the past 15 or 20 years at least, the hard courts have been a simple coating of acrylic over a bitumen (asphalt) base. After 5 or 6 years, cracks will always start to appear as old cracks in the asphalt base (which have been filled and coated over) propagate upwards thru the new acrylic due to water penetration and thermal expansion/contraction.

Also, the members seldom like to play on the hard courts because of the aches and pains the hard surface inflicts on their knee and ankle joints.

This time we are trying several things that are different.

1. After filling the cracks in the old surface, the contractor has laid down a new fabric mat called a geo-textile. This synthetic non-woven fiber material will serve as a boundry surface to separate teh old base from the new. This will help prevent the old cracks from propagating thru to the new surface. You can see it as the white fabric layer in the photo above.

2. The club decided to purchase a cushioning layer , also referred to as a rubberized 'shock pad' which is laid just after the geo-textile and is about 5 mm thick.

This will provide a considerably more comfortable playing experience for our member's knees and ankles. You can see this as the black granular material being laid in the top photo.

The contractor will put down several more layers over these before finally putting down a top coat of 100% acrylic. The resulting surface will be essentially the same as that of the courts at Melbourne Park, where they play the Australian Open.

The project is expected to complete by the end of Sept. When its done, come out and have a hit.

Heah Swee Lee Cup 26-27 Mar 2010

This post from Arthur Chin's website http://www.imtnews.com/

Photo: PSC Dream Team, L-R: Byrant Thor, Luke Leighton, Sasaki Masami, Loo Choo Teng, Tah Nian Yang, Ooi Soon Hong, Jos Fraajie, Koay Theam Hock and Andrew Tijo

Penang Sports Club captured the Heah Swee Lee Cup 2010 by beating Penang Chinese Recreation Club again today at the PSC Tennis Complex to maintain their unbeaten run against CRC. PSC have never lost to them since 1995. (Editor's Note: CRC won the cup last year, but i'm not sure what the head to head is with PSC vs CRC- TedT.)

The HSL Cup which is the oldest inter club tennis tournament in Malaysia, first played in 1948 was a keenly fought tournament in the yesteryears where up to 15 clubs via for honors.

However over the years the numbers of participating clubs have shrunk. There were 4 clubs this year compare to 7 last year.

Something needs to be done by the state tennis governing body to ensure that the tournament does not die a natural death in years to come.

One way is by opening up the tournament to all tennis clubs within the IMT Growth Triangle states instead of confining it to clubs in Penang only.

( by Arthur Chin... original article available by clicking here )

Tennis Section AGM

We held our Tennis Section AGM on 26 March 2010. Most of the committee agreed to stand again and were returned to office unopposed. Datin Lau Mei Aei and Ooi Soon Hong retired from the committee after serving very well last year. We wish to thank them for their service. Wong Poh Lam stepped up to the treasurer post vacated by Soon Hong . Arthur Chin and Haris joined the committee as new members unopposed. We look forward to working with them in the coming year. I also wish to thank the section members for their continued support.

2010 Sakura Cup

PSC vs the Japanese Community of Penang... PSC won 22-11 ... Results were very interesting.. the japanese ladies did quite well, overall they drew with the PSC ladies and won many of the mixed doubles events... Japanese Men lost all their matches vs PSC men... conclusion= Japanese Ladies are GOOD!

Penang Invitational Veteran's Tennis Tournament 11 - 13 Dec 2009

After months of preparation, our Penang Invitational Veteran's Tennis Tournament (PIVTT) was held on 11 - 13 Dec 2009. We had 13 teams participating with almost 200 players representing 4 countries.

In addition to 10 teams from Malaysia, we also had visiting teams from Japan, Thailand and Australia.

Our objective in hosting the tournament was for all the participants and supporters to enjoy themselves. We played tennis over 3 days, enjoying glorious weather throughout.

We raised almost RM50K in funds to finance the tournament and we gave back over 90% of that to the participants in the form of goodie bags, t-shirts, food, drink, entertainment, prizes and prize money.

We had prize money for the champion, the runners ups, the semifinalists, and the plate (loser pool). We also succeeded in ensuring that every team had a reason to come and play on the last day (Sunday) by adding a shield event for the quarterfinal losers. So in the end, 6 of the 13 teams took home prize money and everyone enjoyed plenty of tennis and fun.

The results were as follows

Cup champion - Penang Sports Club Red

Cup runners up - Lakeview Club Subang Jaya

Semifinalists - Penang Sports Club Black and Trang Tennis Club Thailand

Shield champion - Chinese Recreation Club Taiping

Plate Champion - Penang Sports Club Yellow

Judging from the photos, I think you can see that we achieved our objective of making sure everyone enjoy!

On behalf of the organizing committee and the tennis section I want to thank the main sponsor Prince for their generous donations of prizes and balls...

I also want to thank the dozens of other sponsors and club members who generously donated cash, prizes and valuable time to make the event a success. I was especially thankful to Prince for contributing shoe bags and strings for the goodie bags and also to our club members whom we approached for local items to stuff in the goodie bags. I also want to make a special thanks to Datin Lau Mei Aei who's tireless fundraising efforts succeeded beyond all expectations.

Lastly I want to thank the members of my secretariat staff who made my job as Tournament Director so easy and for the whole tournament to run so smoothly.

you can see several hundred photos from the tournament by visiting my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/tedtarg

also, as far as I know...this special lucky draw prize (smelly socks) is still unclaimed....