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15th Smrikva Bowl 2010 - one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World - will take place from 22nd - 27th june 2010

Download 15th Smrikva Bowl presentation and application (pdf ~1.9 MB)

The application form – included in this presentation – must be filled out and sent by fax to the Smrikve Tennis Club. All the information required in the form are relevant!

The number of players will be limited and there will be few places available per country. Top players from each country will be preferred.

Deadline for the application: 30th March 2010 (the waiting list will be prepared if the total number of places available are already full by the deadline date).

Each player will receive the confirmation e- mail after the Smrikve Tennis Club receive the application form sent by fax. Invited players and the players from outside Europe might receive the confirmation of their acceptance before the deadline date. All the other players will receive the confirmation of their acceptance before April 5th, 2009.

We advise you to explain in details the results obtained. If the player has the official ranking in the country of origin, please attach it to the application form.

For any additional questions about the tournament please write to the Smrikve Tennis Club: miodrag_bozovic@yahoo.it

P.S. To learn more about ISTRIA – the region where Smrikva Bowl is played please visit:

...CULTURAL E-BOOK “Istria from Smrikve“ aims to provide Smrikva Bowl players and their families with useful information about the places that should be visited in the Istria region. Here you will find information about: architecture, history, people, music, cuisine, olive oil, wine and major cultural events.

14th Smrikva Bowl 2009 Results, Photos and Press Release

14^th Smrikva Bowl 2009 Results

Photos of the 14^th Smrikva Bowl 2009 edition

14^th Smrikva Bowl 2009 Press Release

News

07/03/10

Ariana Rabac won the under 14 Umag Open tennis tournament

This weekend Ariana Rabac won the under 14 tennis tournament that was played in Umag. Ariana is 13 years old Smrikve Tennis School player and she is currently the best junnior player in our School .

She started to play tennis when she was 9 years old. Her motivation and love for tennis is allowing her to continue to progress year after year.

Her road towards the victory was the following:

Quarterfinals: Ariana Rabac – Lucija Zagar 6:2, 6:1
Semifinals: Ariana Rabac – Ena Barkovic 6:2, 6:2
Finals: Ariana Rabac – Julijana Versic 6:3, 6:1

The ranking of the players Ariana played with is the following:

Lucija Zagar – # 57 under 14
Ena Barkovic – # 66 under 14
Julijana Versic – # 21 under 14

Congratulations Ari!

Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve and future ATRIVM SMRIKVE HOTEL, for your accommodation in Stinjan (Pula) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia. In Villa Smrikve you can enjoy tennis, sea, good Istrian food, Smrikve wine and olive oil, and events in Pula and Istria.

28/02/10

Maia Lumsden - 13th Smrikva Bowl 2008 runner up - won the finals of traditional OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY 2010 played in France

OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY is played since 1985 and many top world players played this tournament considered one of the most important under 12 International Tournaments in the World.

Some of the known names are: Les Français Richard GASQUET, Gaël MONFILS, Paul-Henri MATHIEU, Julien BENNETEAU, Tommy ROBREDO, Raphaël NADAL, Mickaël YOUZNY, Féliciano LOPEZ, Amélie MAURESMO, Justine HENIN, Kim CLIJSTERS and Dinara SAFINA.

Maia Lumsden from Scotland, 13th Smrikva Bowl 2010 runner up, won this year edition! I just received an update from her parents that Maia also won the UK Masters in London a few weeks ago and started to collect first points in under 14 age group.

Last year Gonzalo Morell’s father remined me that in the main draw of the OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY there were all four 12th Smrikva Bowl 2007 semifinalists: Sacha Merzetti from Italy, Bogdan Borza from Romenia, Gonzalo Morell from Spain and Sergiu Bucur from Romenia and Bogdan Borza reached the finals. He was another Smrikva Bowl runner up.

On this year edition Maia Lumsden from Scotland, 13th Smrikva Bowl 2008 runner up, and Dylan Bednarczyk from Canada where the players who reached the bets results of the former top Smrikva Bowl players that played this year OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY.

Maia is the girl with flowers from the left side on the following picture that was taken just before the Smrikva Bowl finals.

Today, Toby Smith, Maia Lumsden coach, told me that Maia told him that in her final she was thinking about the final she had in Smrikva Bowl and used that experience to help her stay relaxed...especially in a crowd of 1000!!!

Lets see Maia’s road towards the victory of the OPEN SUPER 12 AURAY 2010.

Maia Lumsden
1st round: Maia Lumsden – Dea Petriashvili (GEO) 6:0, 6:0
2nd round: Maia Lumsden – Kimberly Van Rijn (NED) 6:4, 6:0
3rd round: Maia Lumsden – Pauline De Ryck (BEL) 6:1, 6:3
Quarterfinals: Maia Lumsden – Simone Alipieva (DEN) 6:2, 6:3
Semifinals: Maia Lumsden – Katarina Kopcalic (CAN) 6:1, 6:4
Finals: Maia Lumsden – Patricia Muamba (CAN) 6:2, 6:2

and Dylan’s road towards the quarterfinals:

Dylan Bednarczyk
1st round: Dylan Bednarczyk – Noe Khlif (FRA) 6:2, 6:0
2nd round: Dylan Bednarczyk – Ovunc Filiz (TUR) 6:1, 6:1
3rd round: Dylan Bednarczyk – Enrico Dalla Valle (ITA) 6:2, 6:1
Quarterfinals: D.Bednarczyk – Wolfgang Olivier (FRA) 5:7,6:2,4:6

Among other top Smrikva Bowl players I recognized in the girls draw Nina Marjanovic from Serbia and Jazzi Plaws from Great Britain lost in the second round.

In the boys draw: Adam Eduard from Romania, Matteo Zanchi from Italy and Luka Panic from Switzerland lost in the first round.

Mihnea Turcu from Romania, Alexei Popyrin from Australia and Ovunc Filiz from Turkey lost in the second round.

Special congratulations to Maia!

23/02/10

Katie Swan - 14th Smrikva Bowl 2009 winner - recently won her first under 14 tournament

I received few days ago some updates on Katie Swan progress. Katie won last year edition and recently she was able to win an under 14 tournament. There several other important news after her wrist recovery.

Katie is back to full recovery after her broken wrist. She just won her first 14 & Under grade 3 event and played really well.

Katie Swan also was selected to represent her county at 18 & Under last week which was great experience even though she looked very small! She did win her singles and doubles matches though so the older girls made a big fuss of her.

Katie has also just been selected for the Great Britain team for an event in France (Bressuire) and is also off to Bulgaria for a week’s clay court training camp with the top 12 & Under girls. Maia Lumsden – 13th Smrikva Bowl 2008 runner up – is also part of the selected Great Britain team.

I am pleased to share Katie’s progress with the community and wish her all the best!

16/02/10

Ajla Tomljanovic, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 runner up, passed the first round on USD 220.000 WTA Tour tournament in Memphis (USA)

Ajla Tomljanovic, 7th Smrikva Bowl 2002 runner up and third ranked on 8th Smrikva Bowl 2003, is the new Croatian rising tennis star living in the US and training at Chirs Evert Academy.

Ajla played USD 220.000 worht WTA tournamet in Memphis and she entered the tournament with wild card.

In the first round she defeated Kristina Kucova from Slovaka – currently ranked #109 on WTA list.

In the second round Ajla played with Karolina Sprem, another Croatian player, currently ranked #87 on WTA list, and lost.

1st round: Ajla Tomljanovic – Kristina Kucova 6:4, 6:4
2nd round: Ajla Tomljanovic – Karolina Sprem 6:3, 2:6, 0:6

Although Ajla Tomljanovic is only 16 years old she has been since she was 9 years old among the best players in her age groups in the World.

On the picture above is Ajla with Croatian flag at the openning cerimony of the 1st “Little Mo”/Smrikva Bowl played in Texas in October 2002.

Ajla is currently ranked #248 on WTA list. Considering WTA ranking list there are only two girls in her age group (1993) with better ranking than her.

For those who understand Croatian I am pleased to post the news published in Jutarnji.

Ajla ostvarila prvu pobjedu na WTA Touru!
(www.jutarnji.hr)

Hrvatska 16-godišnja tenisačica Ajla Tomljanović ostvarila je lijepi uspjeh pobjedom u 1. kola WTA turnira u Memphisu protiv Slovakinje Kristine Kucove 6-4, 6-4 nakon jednog sata i 28 minuta igre.

Ajla Tomljanović, kćerka bivšeg proslavljenog hrvatskog rukometaša Ratka, na WTA ljestvici trenutno zauzima 248. mjesto, a za nastup u glavnom ždrijebu u Memphisu dobila je pozivnicu organizatora. Protiv tri godine starije Kucove, 109. tenisačice na rang ljestvici, ostvarila je premijernu pobjedu u karijeri na jednom WTA turniru.

Mlada Hrvatica u prvom setu povela je s 5-2, ali je Kucova nadoknadila jedan break zaostatka. Ipak, Tomljanović je uspješno odservirala za set u desetom gemu.

Drugi set započeo je sa četiri uzastopna breaka, da bi u petom gemu Kucova zadržala početni udarac. Tomljanović je dva gema kasnije napravila još jedan break što joj je, pokazalo se, bilo dovoljno i za pobjedu.

Na turniru nastupa još jedna hrvatska tenisačica, Varaždinka Karolina Šprem, koja će na startu igrati protiv 4. nositeljice, Čehinje Lucie Hradecke. Pobjednica tog dvoboja bit će suparnica Ajli Tomljanović u 2. kolu, što znači da se možemo nadati hrvatskom okršaju.

For those who still have not seen Ajla playing I am pleased to post an old you tube video.

14/02/10

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction

Smrikva Bowl mission is to develop and spread cosmopolitan values. Love, friendship and empathy are cosmopolitan values per excellence…

Smrikve, April 2009

FEW WORDS ABOUT L…

The strongest force among human beings is named “Love”. Love can be very powerfull but can also be very painfull force.

THE LITTLE PRINCE…by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry… is a very special book that every person at different age read differently.

It is a book that last over time and was likely the last love gift Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made to his wife Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.

Over time this book was translated in many different languages thus become a love gift for many generations around the world.

It is a children’s book writen for the olders… I like many parts of it… especially the description that Antoine make of the adult people… the description of the moment when the rose was born… the importance of the right orders on the King’s planet… “you never know” statement… the meeting with the wise fox… the smiling stars and many other parts…

Only best friends, when they trust each other, do share their deep knowledge… and once The Little Prince and the fox created such a special relationship the fox shared a secret with him…

“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry beleived that: Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.... “Ljubav ne zahtjeva da dvoje ljudi gledaju jedno u drugo, već da zajedno gledaju u istom pravcu”.

Miodrag Bozovic