Newsletter

number 3
April 30 2016
Dear Participants,
We present you our third Newsletter. This Newsletter will
provide you with information about:

The time schedule

Participants and countries
Level brackets
The Raffle
Public Transport
Bike- and walking tour
Meeting of representatives European countries

The situation
These last weeks were very hectic. We had a lot of unexpected surprises like people that cant come
because of injuries, family matters or because they had forgotten that they filled in a registration
form some months ago! Lets hope that everybody who is on the list now can and will come to
Amsterdam! Due to these cancellations, we have still some spots available. But. deadline for
registration is the 5th of May!

The best pickleballplayers of Europe, Asia and the USA

Were so proud that 140 pickleballplayers from 12 different countries will come to our tournament in
Amsterdam. This will be the most international pickleball tournament ever! We have people from:
Belgium

Czech Republic

England

Finland

France

India

Netherlands

Scotland

Spain

Ukraine

USA

Wales

It would be nice if one person of each country can bring their flag!
Were more than happy with 5 US Open medal winners coming to Amsterdam. Theyll tell us their
secrets! Our youngest participant is 16 years and the oldest is 84! And because its a skill level event,
they may play against each other. You can find a list of all participants at the end of this newsletter.

Raffle for the Dutch Pickleball Association

April 24th the foundation of the Dutch Pickleball Association took place. Were very proud that we
can work on the growth of pickleball on a national level now. We also became a member of the
international Federation of Pickleball. The next thing we need as association is equipment and
money. And thats why well organize a raffle. Starting Friday night you can buy lottery tickets. On
Saturday night the raffle draw will be and all the lottery winners will be
announced. You can help us in three ways:
1. bring gifts for the lottery
2. bring equipment for the Dutch Pickleball Association
3. buy lottery tickets

Brackets
We have 3 categories: womens doubles, mens doubles and mixed doubles. And well play at three
different levels: 4.0 and up, 3.5 and 2.0-3.0. So all couples with at least one 4.0 and up player, will
compete in the top group. Youll play in a Round Robin system and after that semi-finals, finals and a
losers round or another Round Robin (depending on the amount of people). We assure you that
youll play 5 games at least. The round robin games will be played 1 game till 15. The finals and
probably also semi-finals will be a full game (2 out of 3 games till 11)
Because most European pickleballplayers do not know their ranking, all couples with 3.5 and below
will start in one group. They will play some games in a round robin system and the results rank the
couples in the advanced or the starters pool. There youll play more Round Robin and after that for
the medals. Therell be a trophy for the 1st place and a silver and bronze medal for the 2nd and 3rd
place.
Well do our best to give you the best tournament experience possible. And although we arent
professionals, our goal is to take care of a smooth organization and give you all the opportunity to
play pickleball at your level, meet old friends, making new ones and have fun!

Time Schedule
Date / Day

Time?

What?

Where?

Who?

May 25th
Wednesday

19:00
22:00 h

Wednesday Night
Clinic

Sporthal de
Pijp

Jennifer Lucore
Kyle Yates

May 26th
Thursday

12:00
14.30 h

Highlight
Bike Tour

Mikes Bike
Kerkstraat
123

Bob Smutka
b.smutka@gmail.com

May 27th
Friday

13:00
15:00 h

Walking tour
Secret courtyards

Prinsengracht
203-P

Jan
pickleballamsterdam@gmail.com

16.00-
16.30 h

Presentation
The
implementation of
pickleball in a city

Sporthal de
Pijp

Tessa Hexspoor
Faculty of Lifestyle & Health
tessahexspoor@hotmail.com

17:00
21:00 h

Friday Night Clinic

Referee Clinic
Meet, Greet, Play

Sporthal de
Pijp

Jennifer Lucore
Kyle Yates
Gigi LeMaster
Seymour Rifkind

May 28th
Saturday

09:00
19:00 h

1st Tournament
Day

Sporthal de
Pijp

Pickleball Team

19.30

Dinner,
Pubquiz, Draw of
the Lottery

Sporthal de
Pijp

Pickleball Team

May 29th
Sunday

8.30-9.45

Meeting Pickleball
Europe

Sporthal de
Pijp

David Conover
david@pickleballukraine.com

09:00
18:00 h

2nd Tournament
Day

Sporthal de
Pijp

Pickleball Team

Sporthal de Pijp, Lizzy Ansinghstraat 88

Amsterdam City Bike Tour

Thursday, May 26 from Mike's Bikes. Get a unique tour of Amsterdam (The City of Bikes) on a bike.
12:30 PM departure for a 2-3 hour tour with a local guide.
25 Euros or 23 Euros if we get a group of 10 or more, which includes your rental bike from
Mike's. Senior rate is 22 Euros.

Please email Bob Smutka (who is organizing
the tour) and Mike's Bikes to confirm.
bsmutka@gmail.com
Note that emails to Bob may take time to
answer as he will be travelling May 8- May
23.

Group needs to be flexible as 12:30 tour
would be JUST our pickleballers. If we don't
have enough, then we'd go on their regularly
scheduled arrive at 11:45/ depart at 12:00
group tour.

Mike's Bike Tours, Kerkstraat 123, 1017GE Amsterdam, 020-622 7970 +31 20 622 7970
(when calling from an International phone)
www.mikesbiketoursamsterdam.com Include AMS bike tour group picture from below.

Walking tour along hidden courtyards

Amsterdam has a lot of hidden courtyards. These were originally built by churches, private
organizations or the city for widows or orphans as quiet urban oases within the busy and crowded
city. There are approximately 40 such courtyards throughout Amsterdam. These courtyards are
public, but are surrounded by private residences.
Jan, the partner of one of our pickleball players, is willing to guide us through an amazing secret
spots Tour along cortyards in the center of Old Amsterdam. This will happen Friday May 27, starting
at 1 pm and ending at 3pm.
You might have been to Amsterdam before and seen all the great things. But what if the
small things, every tourist walks past, are even more beautiful. The Hofjestocht makes it
possible to see the most beautiful secret places from Amsterdam.
Ten persons max so dont wait too long. Price: only 5,- We start at the Prinsengracht 203-P, close to
the Anne Frank House. If you feel like joining this amazing walking tour, please send an email to
pickleballamsterdam@gmail.com

Presentation about the implementation of pickleball in a community

Tessa Hexspoor, a student at the college Inholland in Haarlem, has done research for her thesis
recently. We asked her to find out about the best way to implement pickelball in the city of Haarlem.
The preliminary results and findings will be presented on Friday, May 27th at 16:00 pm at the
International Pickleball Tournament in Amsterdam.
Location: Sporthal de Pijp. Time: 16.00-16.30
Hereby youre invited you to come to this presentation. Please let Tessa know before May 20th, if you
are interested. If you have any questions, dont hesitate to ask them.
Tessa Hexspoor

E-mail: tessahexspoor@hotmail.com

Phone Number: 06-18458767

Meeting Pickleball Europe

Pickleball is played in more and more European countries. So its time to gather and talk about our
common interests. Sunday morning, May 29th, we have our first European meeting in Sporthal de
Pijp. David Conover from Pickleball Ukraine is the initiator of this meeting and well hope that every
European country where pickleball is played can be represented in this meeting. We start at 8.30 and
finish at 9.45. The competition committee will take care that the representatives wont play before
10 am.

Public Transport
The quickest way to Sporthal de Pijp depends on your arrival. Using our Dutch public transport is very
easy through : www.9292.nl/en
This website also offers an Application 9292 on your mobile phone.
In the Application you can go to Settings and choose your Language, which makes it very easy to use.
There are many different ways to get to the location, averagely it takes around 30 40 minutes from
most places in Amsterdam. If you know how to ride a bicycle, we would advice you to rent one.
Available bus -/ tram stops near Sporthal de Pijp:
Bus- / tram stop Scheldestraat, Amsterdam

Bus- / tram stop Waalstraat/Rooseveltlaan, Amsterdam
Bus- / tram stop Cornelis Troostplein, Amsterdam

Tram stop Albert Cuypstraat, Amsterdam

(5 minutes walk)
(10 minutes walk
(2 minutes walk)
(9 minutes walk)

Side Info
In our fourth and final Newsletter we will announce more
information about the playing schedule, group sizes and more!
If you have any modifications that might affect the schedule,
we would appreciate it if you keep us informed with relevant
information before May 5th!
As you might already know, on Saturday 28th we have organized
a dinner. We hope that everyone joins this event. It will be very
lekker and gezellig! Specially because therell be a pubquiz about
Amsterdam/Holland!
Website Link : www.pickleballholland.nl
We hope that everyone is settled by now. It is only a few weeks
away!
If you did miss newsletter 1 or 2, take a look at our website! And become a member of our
facebookgroup Pickleball Tournament Amsterdam!
With kind and sporty regards,
The Pickleball Tournament Team
Any questions or comments? Send us an email:
pickleballamsterdam@gmail.com

Participants

Mhairi
Rodney
Patricia
Tuomo
Charlotte
Paul
Bart
Bonita
Stephen
Sue
Erik
Roger
Judy
Nicolas
Jean-Luc
Kassandra
Marioline
Caroline
Peter
Lorraine
Petra
Pim
Javier
Samantha
Marie-Jos
Nathan
Erika
David
Alan
Megan
Kathryn
Cyril
Brian
Alison
Atul
Lee
Klemens
Robert
Lisa
Gema
Evelyn
Leonardo
Gladys
Jiske
Colin
Marijke

Adam
Amatkasmin
Angelil
Antikainen
Appleby
Arnold
Baere de
Baker-Dean
Besant
Baines
Bentsink
Birtwistle
Birtwistle
Bosignore
Bourgeois
Bourgeois
Bourgeois
Bozier
Bratton
BriggsHackford
Brocken
Burgers
Casares
Clayton
Cobben
Cole
Combe
Conover
David
David
Delderfield
Dirand
Eastgate
Eastgate
Edward
Featherby
Fischler
Foley
Foord
Garcia
Giesbers
Gonzalez
Gorissen
Groeneveld,
van
Hackford
Haggenburg

Faye
Roger
Sue
Dylan
Leo
Daniel
Alberto
Michael
Justin
Martin
Brian
Steve
Susie
Tim
Lesley
Wally
Betsy
Caroline
Diane
Jolanda
Daniel
Daniel
Mathias
Sara
Gigi
Jennifer
Sheena
Sheena
Clare
Tania
Julie
Rachel
Tom
Joep
Lenka
Maria
Antonia
Anne
Helga
Heidi
Caron
Jodi
Ville
Jukka
Carlos
Alberto

Hansen
Harrison
Harrison
Heijden, van
der
Heldoorn
Hernando
Hernando
Hess
Hess
Hobbs
Hook
Hughes
Hughes
HuntertWhitehous
Joffick
Juraschka
Kenniston
King
King
Klaassen
Knight
Van
Laarhoven
Lassfolk
Lassfolk
LeMaster
Lucore
MacDonald
Maclean-Bell
Maclean-Bell
Mason
Mercer
Meredith
Merkx
Merkx
Miikov
Montero
Fernandez
Muijen, van
Muijen, van
Mullen
Newson
Oppenhuizen
Pellosniemi
Pellosniemi
Perez

Bernard
Paulette
John
Janet
Seymour
Emma
David
Diana
Irma
Marcos
Thea
Liz
Elaine
Gill
Susan
Bob
Jurren
Dymphna
Bernadette
Jeroen
Alan
Frans
Robin
Teresa
Dick
Marilyn
Tom
Krishna
Carine
Sbastien
Lars
Remco
Mees
Peter
Frances
Tjitte
Yolande
Philippe
Tanja
Richard
June
Maureen
David
Geoff
Harrison
Sue
Kyle

Powell
Powell
Price
Price
Rifkind
Robins
Rowe
Rowe
Rusche
Ryhanen
Schwab
Sepeda
Shallcross
Smith
Smith
Smutka
Snijders Blok
Snijders Blok
Snijders Blok
Snijders Blok
Speller
Steenbrugge,
van
Stolworthy
Stolworthy
Strangemore
Strangemore
Summer
Thakrar
Thesingh
Thiebault
Tooren, van
Tooren, van
Tooren, van
Turner
Turner
Veldhuis
Waal, de
Watry
Weijl
Welsford
Welsford
Wilson
Wood
Wood
Wood
Wood
Yates