2018 U9 TDC CUP  

Congratulations to our U9 ACE Teams that competed with determination and displayed fair play all throughout the event hosted by the OTA and Tennis Canada at the Aviva Centre. Teams from ACE Toronto and ACE Burlington were chaperoned by coaches Adam Svoboda and Craig Mercer.  ACE Burlington Team #1 - qualified in Group A at top place gaining a spot in Flight A with an 81.3% winning average! Overall placing them second in the 'Flight A' competition. Team #2 - qualified in Group B placing them in Flight C where they gained a positive playing experience never allowing defeat to bring down their spirits. Overall they placed third in 'Flight C' competition. ACE Toronto Team finished 4th.

ACE Burlington Team #1 players: David Kolbasnik, Joseph Cunha, Clara Tiongand Maria Youssef.
ACE Burlington Team #2: Evan Xie, Petar Maras, Sophia Melnyk and Isabella Henao.
ACE Toronto Team: Beverly Tablang,Cooper Arroyave, Nico Shulte and Luke Basiji.

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Photo courtesy of Ziad Halabi.
ACE Burlington Team #1 Maria Youssef, Clara Tiong, Joseph Cunha, David Kolbasnik and coach Adam Svoboda
ACE Burlington Team #2 Peter Maras, Isabella Henao, Sophia Melnyk and Evan Xie
Luke Basiji and Cooper Arroyave
Luke Basiji
Beverly Tablang
Nico and Beverly showing some doubles spirtit
ACE Toronto players left to right; Beverly Tablang, Cooper Arroyave, Nico Shulte and Luke Basiji. Coach Craig Mercer pictured with the players, was very proud of the kids sportsmanship, team spirit and performance. 



U9 TDC FORMAT

*          Each TDC team will consist of 2 girls and 2 boys born in 2009/2010.
*          Each TDC team will be grouped with 4 other teams in a round robin draw.
*          Each team will play one another in their group, thus each team will play 3 other TDC's
*          Each match will consist of two girls' singles matches and one girls' doubles match, two boys' singles matches and one boys' doubles match for a total of 6 matches
*          All matches will be 30-minutes with no ad scoring on ¾ court with the orange ball; players will play as many games as possible in the 30 minutes; each game won will count towards their teams total; thus, a team's total score will be the accumulation of the total games won from the six matches played
*          Each match within the round robin grouping will be played using this format; thus, each team will accumulate games won from all three of their opponent matches against the other TDC's (24 matches in total)
*          Final results within each grouping will be determined by total games won. Teams will be ordered 1-2-3-4-5 based on games won. In the case of a tie, the team with the least games lost will win. If the least games lost still remains in a tie, then the winner of the two teams when they played will determine the winner.
*          The top team in each flight will advance to the elimination event on Sunday; based on the number of teams a wild card team may be added to the elimination flight ie. The wild card team will be the next highest game score among the teams not finishing in the top 2 of their box.