2022040 Growthpoint TSA Junior Nationals

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Tournament Information Final call will be made at 12 for all Singles finals
4th Apr, 2022 - Dear Players/Parents & Coaches Due to bad weather and a backlog of matches in the singles and doubles we had to make some tough decisions with the tournament going forward. U12 / 14 /16 Semi – Finals will be played at 09:00am the U18 Semi’s will be played at NB 10:15 All players will be scheduled to play 1 round of back draw and then the last round won’t be played Should it rain…
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Draws

BS 18

Tennis (Singles)
BS 18 Alternates

Tennis (Singles)
GS 18

Tennis (Singles)
BD 18

Tennis (Doubles)
BD 18 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 18

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 18 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)
BS 16

Tennis (Singles)
BS 16 Alternates

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GS 16

Tennis (Singles)
BD 16

Tennis (Doubles)
BD 16 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 16

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 16 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)
BS 14

Tennis (Singles)
BS 14 Alternates

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GS 14

Tennis (Singles)
BD 14

Tennis (Doubles)
BD 14 GOLD

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 14

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 14 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)
BS 12

Tennis (Singles)
BS 12 Alternates

Tennis (Singles)
GS 12

Tennis (Singles)
GS 12 Alternates

Tennis (Singles)
BD 12

Tennis (Doubles)
BD 12 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 12

Tennis (Doubles)
GD 12 Gold

Tennis (Doubles)

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About

2022 GROWTHPOINT JUNIOR NATIONALS
30 March – 04 April 2022
Free State Tennis Stadium, Mangaung, Free State
Tennis South Africa (TSA) are pleased to announce that the Growthpoint Junior Nationals will return to Mangaung from 30 March until 4 April 2022 at Free State Tennis stadium and several other premier Mangaung tennis venues. The 2022 edition will comprise of 64 players across all age groups – namely under-12, 14, 16 and 18.
Acceptance into the tournament will be determined using the combined TSA rankings of 7th March 2022.
Summary:
 Only RSA players will be allowed to enter.
 All draws will consist of 64 players broken down as follows:
• 60 Direct Acceptance from the combined rankings.
• 4 TSA wildcards
 There will be an alternate list as per the players ranking on the tournament page.
 Players who do not make the cut will be given a full refund after the withdrawal deadline.
 There will be no invitation letters issued to players, as such, players must enter themselves in the tournament.

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Kyle Pienaar
30 Apr 2022

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Very disappointed with officials attitude next to courts. They where more interested in their cellphones than what was happening on the courts. Also had very rude attitude towards players and spectatures.

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Yasmin Lombard
18 Apr 2022

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Please start play at 08h00 especially when rain is predicted as well as an additional day to ensure that all matches are played

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Brandon RIESEBERG
18 Apr 2022

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Officials were useless unfortunately, we as parents pay exhortant amounts of money and invest immense time in preparing our kids for these big events, to have our efforts wasted time and time again by kids cheating, swearing and behaving badly, with both their parents and supposedly trained officials never intervening and penalising the culprits. Someone really needs to start taking control of these big events and run them more professionally. The well behaved and honest kids always seem to be getting done in and this can be easily remedied if officials started applying the rules as intended and stop being scared of unruly kids and parents.

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Anonymous

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More matches could have been played on day 1 especially if you noticed that rain was on the way. Too many courts open when some matches still had to be played. I do not understand why the doubles in the gold draw was put on before the platinum draw on the last day whilst rain was on the way. I went to 2 or 3 venues inbetween and the officiating was terrible. Only 1 official at Mundene was doing his job, the other official when asked to assist stood like a statue and did absolutely nothing. He could sweep the court but when it came to knowing the rules he had absolutely no clue what was going on. You just created a scenario where the same kids cheated to go through to the next round - how are our kids suppose to get somewhere in tennis when they know the rules but the official doesn't?

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Anonymous

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I am not happy about the officials not disqualifing children that is swearing on the court on other children.

I made 2 complaints at the court but the official just called the other official and did not do anything about that.

There could have been played more games on the first day then and they should have checked the weather.
There were alot of courts open for sometimes more than an hour.
And there were alot of parents talking and shouting not only to the oponets on the courts also on the other parents. It was upsetting my child!!!
Overall grey college was great!!!! Loved nationals but please get some officials that are doing there job correctley its not a normal mini!!!

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Anonymous

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Once again we did not finish.............

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Keaton Holm
5 Apr 2022

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Great tournament just sad to see that not very strict and very strong action was taken against senior players getting completely out of hand with unnecessary arguments with officials and a lot of swearing on court with no action against them and a good preview of bad tennis behaviour was on TV news tonight

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Anrich Campher
5 Apr 2022

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Please check results for various Double Draws that were cancelled athough Draw results indicate that Winners were allocated in several draws while these games were never played. Even if walkovers were relevant in certain games, they were not played because of weather as per communication by TSA. Walkovers for such to be changed to “not played” otherwise other teams also had “walkovers” as they were ready to go on court, but not called to go on court because of weather, and games were cancelled. No point allocation can be relevant further than last games played post TSA cancellations of games as per communique.

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