The Merritt and District Tennis Club has wrapped up a busy year on the courts, culminating in some end-of-season tournaments in nearby Kamloops.<\/p>\n
Members recently made the trip for both the Kamloops Tennis Club\u2019s Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Doubles Invitationals, decided in points with teams playing in a round robin at the B level.<\/p>\n
Amardeep Khangura partnered with club president Balwant Bains for a third place finish, while Pavitar Dosanjh, partnering with Bhavinder Bansi who had little chance to play because of work demands, also did very well winning against a couple of teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tie breaks were the norm in some good strong matches for the Merritt athletes, while there was no final.<\/p>\n
The Kamloops Ladies Doubles Invitational, also in November, had Annie Rabbitt partnering with Marina Cadano to play in a round robin at the C level, coming out on top in three games on their way to a third place finish. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are inexperienced tournament players and had a great time meeting others from other clubs and getting tips on improving their play,\u201d said Merritt and District Tennis Club Secretary Diane Quinn.<\/p>\n
Three tournaments capped off a successful season for the Merritt club, as Quinn had recently received a bronze medal competing in the Ladies Singles 80+ group at the BC Senior Games in September.<\/p>\n
Only a few players were entered and the one player in 75+ joined the older group in a\u00a0 round robin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The competition was fierce with the youngest, a coach from Victoria, winning the gold in the younger group while the gold went to a Tennis Canada player in the older group. <\/p>\n
Diane said she had a great time playing against these very nice ladies, learned a lot and felt like a champion when she received complements on her improvement from a lady who had beaten her last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTerrific atmosphere, wonderful volunteers and many different sports take place,\u201d added Quinn., who said she would recommend participation in the Games for anyone who wants to give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Merritt and District Tennis Club has wrapped up a busy year on the courts, culminating in some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,51279,149438,149437,82,593],"class_list":["post-341956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-merritt","tag-merritt-tennis-club","tag-nicola-valley","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}