2016 season

Hello RTL members

Rochester Tennis League is celebrating it's 10th birthday this spring. Back in 2006. it was hard to imagine that the league would grow as much  and still be around 10 years later.    Over the years  many of you   helped promote and  organize this competition . Your , enthusiasm, ideas, suggestions and time   are greatly appreciated. Hopefully RTL will continue with the  same kind of success in  coming years.

2016 Season
Session I registration for returning players will be starting in couple of weeks. You will get an email from me that will include sign up link. Session I will most likely start April 25th.

New players joining for the first time can register at any time on our web site www.rochestertennisleague.com

If you know someone who might be interested you can direct them to our site.

Weather permitting we will try to set up some pre-season matches for new players so we can place them appropriately. If any of you are interested in screening new players let me know.

Returning players will be placed according to their previous results.

Session I runs for  7 weeks long and it will have a round robin format.

Doubles league starts  on May 16th. Exact format will depend on number of teams that register. We  plan to run 2 sessions this year. . All double combinations (men's, women's and mixed) will play in the same group, teams will only be divided by skill level. Normally we have two divisions/level..
Doubles league registration will be  starting  after the singles sign up is done,  Teams will need to register 3 players.  Players without partners can contact me so we can match them up with a team or other players looking for partners.

Fees
Returning players play free of charge, new players joining for the first time pay one time registration fee in amount of $30.

Donations
Donations to RTL can be made at the link below

Awards
Depending on number of new players and donations we hope to pass gift card awards to divisional champions (sessions I and II) and trophies to session III champions and runner ups.

Assistant organizers 
A group of dedicated volunteers  help us enter the scores and update standings each year. Their efforts are greatly appreciated and without them the league wouldn't be able to continue in the same shape. We are looking for volunteers again this season. Normally one person updates  2 divisions  so every week you would be entering 8 scores. Players from those two divisions  email you the scores and your responsibility would be to enter them in a google spreadsheet. It's a pretty simple process.
Anyone interested can shoot me an email.

Review RTL
If anyone is interested in writing a review about their RTL experience please CLICK HERE


Arch open
Arch open is a charity tennis tournament that was organized for the first time last summer. This year's tournament  is tentatively scheduled for May 28th. It's one day tournament that includes singles and doubles.   It's  a great opportunity to hang out with local tennis enthusiasts ,  play some competitive tennis , donate to a good cause and possibly win some prizes. The event will be held at Kutzky Park. More information about this tournament will be forwarded later this spring.

Arch Family dinner fundraiser
Arch charity is setting up a charity dinner banquet on March 12th 6pm at Canadian Honker Apache.
Here is a note from  Arch founder and CEO Matthew Fatehi

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you  to arch family dinner, on Saturday March 12 2016, 6:00 pm, at Canadian Honker Events Apache (by Kahler hotel).

Rochester Big Band is playing from 8:00-10:00 pm (we have dance floor!). Colleague of mine sings beautiful and she plays piano from 6:00 - 7:30 pm (back ground music).
Speaker from MN Adult Teen Challenge will give a talk at 7:30 - 7:45 pm.  Raffle from 7:45 - 8:00 pm.

Choice of three menu (New York Steak, Boursin Chicken or Parmesan Walleye ) + Chocolate Raspberry Cake will be served at 6:30 pm.
(Vegetarian and/or gluten free dish is available by request.) Total cost $25 / per person.

Please RSVP by March 1st , latest March 2nd 2016.

Please visit www.archcharity.org and/or like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/archcharity

Location: Canadian Honker Events Apache WWW.canadianhonkerevents.com

Thank you all very much for helping us to make this event a success by your presence.

Sincerely yours,
Matthew Fatehi
Founding Director/CEO

Cell-phone: 507-261-0209
Email matthew.fatehi@archcharity.org

So long for this initial post for 2016.

 Have a great week and I will get in touch in couple of weeks regarding RTL singles registration.