Update from our president

Ladies 

I hope that your confinement is going well and that you have not damaged the walls of your house too much by practicing your tennis indoor! 

What an unbelievable story! Who would have believed that on March 12th as we were debating whether we should play that last match that on March 13th, we would be playing the last match of the season and that we would not be playing or meet for another 2 months! Quebec is on hold and so is our tennis! I can't obviously, at this point, confirm that the evaluation will be held on May 21st as planned or that the AGA will be on June 8th for sure, but I can't reschedule either. We have to wait until the Government announces its measures of deconfinement. Rest assured that you will be kept informed of our decisions. 

Thanks to ZOOM, the CA continues its meetings and the statistics committee continues to work on the evaluations. 

Even if everything is a bit nebulous right now, we will be playing tennis again and TFIM will pursue its activities. TFIM has actually 5 positions to fill on its board. Two members, whose mandate are over, have agreed to come back and 3 others will be leaving the committee. Hence, we need candidates. If you are interested, I invite you to submit your candidacy by sending me an email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), with a brief description of your aptitudes and the reasons why you wish to join the CA, before May 25th. 

It's fun to contribute and it is rewarding. 

Until we see each other again, stay healthy and continue to practice social distancing!

Michelle Aube
Présidente TFIM

France Santerre tells us how...

France Santerre, a long standing member of TFIM and coach at Tennis 13 has made a video telling us how we can play our sport when we return to our indoor clubs. 

Watch video!

Who can be evaluated?

The objective for the end of season evaluation is to give our members the opportunity to be seen by other tennis professionals to validate that the player has the required "player profile" to move up or the relevant criteria to stay in her level.

The "Evaluation Template" used during evaluation can be filled out and sent with the "request to change levels" form before April 15th of the current season.

Profile confirmation grids

The essential skills of each level are described in each "PROFILE OF THE PLAYER".

Subsequently, a chart of these skills to be evaluated was developed: THE EVALUATION GRID. This in order to be more uniform, more equitable for all players. This process should help communication between coach and player and remove the stress of changing players' levels by external constraints.

The following confirmation (evaluation) grids are intended to better identify the skills of a player and to ensure that each player is in the right level, to perform at her best and express herself. The process to evaluate players who could change levels may warrant an evaluation in front of other club pros. TFIM asks the coach to fill in these grid and the consulting pros will confirm their assessment. The player should meet with her coach and sign the evaluation in front of her coach. 

It is extremely important to understand that to move up a level, the player must attain the same profile of a player in the upper level. To stay in the level, the player has to maintain the level's profile and to move down, she doesn't have the profile to stay in the level.

Any player can auto-evaluate herself with these grids and ask her coach to help her attain or maintain her level of play in order to better perform and enjoy her tennis.

To move up (or stay) in level I: Confirmation grid 4,0

To move up (or stay) in level II: Confirmation grid 3,5

To move up (or stay) in level III: Confirmation grid 3,0

 

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and following the measures imposed by the Quebec Government prohibiting the holding of events until August 31, 2020, Tennis Canada announced on Saturday the postponement of the Rogers Cup presented by National Bank event in Montreal. The tournament which was scheduled to take place from August 7 to 16, 2020 is now postponed to August 6 to 15, 2021.

The postponement of the tournament means that Montreal will host the women’s event in 2021.”