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Tennis with a Twist
On 29 March 2008, we held a wheelchair tennis clinic, as a prelude to the upcoming National Disability League. Although a number of the registered participants did not manage to turn up, those who attended were very glad they came. Credits to one enigmatic lady named Christyne.
Christyne, an ex-coach who moved to Singapore from Australia, is a dynamic woman of many skills. Tennis, soccer, racing, sailing, rafting...you name it, she’s done it. And before she embarked on her next challenge - a three-week adventure trek overseas, SDSC caught her in time to conduct a tennis workshop. The participants were originally signed up for another activity - a wheelchair tennis friendly - which was unfortunately canceled at the last minute. In order not to disappoint them, SDSC decided to pull this workshop together. And with the ready agreement by Christyne, we were raring to go.
And the feedback from this workshop was tremendously beyond our expectations. While some of the participants had experience in tennis previously, some had not even sat on a tennis wheelchair before. But Christyne had no problems gathering the participants together into a team. Soon, they were cheering each other on as Christyne set more and more difficult courses for them. And everyone had good laughs during the group chat at the end.
Before the workshop ended, some participants were already asking about the next workshop or activity. Well, be sure to keep a look out on our website for some exciting times ahead!
(For a side note: In fact, we had trouble “peeling” the players off the tennis chairs at the end, because they loved the feel of it so much!)
Here’s some pictures taken on that day:
SDSC sincerely thanks Christyne, Tony, David, Ben, Jimmy and all the participants who have made this workshop possible.