2015 Timeline 3. Development program 7. Junior competition 8. Officiating 9. Relation with stakeholders 10. VTF in the media perspectives 12

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1 ANNUAL REPORT 2015

2 TABLE OF CONTENT 2015 Timeline 3 Development program 7 Junior competition 8 Officiating 9 Relation with stakeholders 10 VTF in the media perspectives Calendar of events 13 Cyril Jacobe, bronze medalist in single at the Pacific Games Warea Tigona in Melbourne for the GSDF Training of officials 2

3 2015 Timeline Despite cyclone PAM and the damages caused to our major club, 2015 has been a great year, with great achievements from both our senior and junior players. Since cyclone PAM, VTF has reached a management agreement with the Cercle Sportif and is now in charge of renovating and managing the Tennis Club. This will allow VTF to develop further. March Cyclone PAM destroyed Port-Vila and caused major damages to the only club in Vanuatu. With the assistance of young volunteers, the tennis courts are quickly cleaned and some tennis activities restarted 4 days after the cyclone. The club destroyed Four days later May Visit of the tennis facilities by IOC President Richard Bach. IOC President played tennis with some of our kids from the development program. President Bach with the youngest of the program IOC President Bach, VASANOC President Antoine 3 Boudier with the kids of the development program

4 2015 Timeline April Clement Mainguy, Warea Tigona, Rosalie Molbaleh and Daisy Sipiti participate to the Easter Tournament in Fiji and bring back quite a lot of titles May The Vanuatu Juniors win the West Pacific Junior Championships again. Clement Mainguy won the U14 boys and Rosalie Molbaleh the U14 girls. Marlin Hannam and Daisy Sipiti finished second in the U14 and Warea Tigona finished 3 rd in the U12. Vanuatu qualified an impressive 8 players out of 10 to the POJC. Winners of the West-Pacific June On the 27 th, we organize our annual fundraising at the Chinese Club. Over 100 persons enjoyed a great dinner. It was also the occasion for all participants to meet with national junior and senior team members. The funds collected were used for the South-Pacific Games, the Junior Teams and the development program. Presentation of the National Senior Team to compete for the Pacific Games 4

5 2015 Timeline June At the Fiji Open, Leiniker Thomas and Lorraine Banimataka won the mixed doubles, Marlin Hannam won the U15 and Evelyne Jacobe won the Ladies 50 singles. Marlin Hannam/Varick Bizot finished 2 nd in the U15 doubles while Pierre Takataveti/Tamata Quari took the 3 rd place. Left: Lorraine and Leiniker at the prize ceremony. Right: Marlin and Varick for the double July At the South Pacific Games, the Senior Team composed as Cyril Jacobe, Aymeric Mara, Leiniker Thomas, Lorraine Banimataku, Daisy Sipiti, Andrew Mailtorok (coach) and Francis Bryard (Team Manager) won the silver medal in the team event, the silver in double (Cyril and Aymeric) and the bronze in single (Cyril Jacobe) Left: Cyril Jacobe in action. Right: the team with the silver medal and Vanuatu supporters. August At the Pacific Oceania Junior Championships, Clement Mainguy won the U14, Warea Tigona finished 2 nd in the U12; Clement Mainguy and Marlin Hannam finished 2 nd in the U14 doubles. 5

6 2015 Timeline September For the fist time in Vanuatu Tennis s history, 3 juniors players from the Development Program, Kassie and Daniella Tigona and Marc Runa took part to the Youth Commonwealth Games in Samoa. Left: Vanuatu delegation at the opening of the Commonwealth Youth Games. Right: Marc Runa after his win over Xander from Anquilla. September With the financial assistance of the Department of Youth and Sports, we organized two successful tennis sessions in Santo. Over 200 kids were introduced to tennis. A big thank you to Lois Delattre for all the work he has done in Santo in December A first introductory course was organized for officials and was followed by the U14 Regional Championships. 6

7 Development Program Our development program is now in his 4 th year of existence and is now structured around four levels summarized below: LEVEL 1. TENNIS IN COMMUNITY AND SCHOOLS Tennis awareness and activities are introduced in specific communities and in kindy and primary schools under the Australian Open Pacific Pathways Program. In 2015, 5 kindies are associated to this program in Port-Vila and 5 primary schools are under this program in Santo. Altogether, tennis has been introduced to over 600 kids this year LEVEL 2. TRANSITION TENNIS Transition Tennis involves kids from primary schools and kindy in Port-Vila only at the moment. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday over 80 kids from various schools received a structured tennis lesson at the Port-Vila National Centre. To join these sessions, kids must registered and pay a VT affiliation fee per year to the Vanuatu Tennis Federation. This program is supported by the international Tennis Federation who provides all the equipment and the VASANOC. LEVEL 3. ADVANCED TENNIS Advanced Tennis is oriented to competition. Kids received a full tennis training and can start to enter in the National Tournaments organized by VTF. This program is funded by the International Tennis Federation, VASANOC and the VTF. Over 40 kids are actually at this level. LEVEL 4. NATIONAL JUNIOR ELITE (NJE) This level is reserved to our most brilliant talent and involve fitness/physical preparation and special training session with an orientation towards tactic and strategy. To be in the NJE, you have to be a Ni-Vanuatu citizen or have at least 5 years of residence in Vanuatu, regularly attend training and fitness session, abide by the Junior Code of Conduct and have good results at national and regional competition. Only members of the NJE, can represent our country to regional junior event. This program is funded by the International Tennis Federation under the JTI Program and the VTF. NJE is actually comprised of 15 players. NUMBER OF SCHOOLS INVOLVED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN THE 21 PROGRAM NUMBER OF KIDS FROM KINDY INTRODUCED TO TENNIS THIS YEAR 305 NUMBER OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS KIDS INTRODUCED TO TENNIS THIS 230 YEAR NUMBER OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS KIDS INTRODUCED TO TENNIS 80 THIS YEAR TOTAL NUMBER OF KIDS FROM ALL LEVEL INTRODUCED TO TENNIS 615 THIS YEAR NUMBER OF PLAYERS INVOLVED AT REGULAR TRAINING SESSIONS AT 73 THE CLUB NUMBER OF KIDS HAVING TAKING PART TO TOURNAMENTS 32 NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS AND ASSISTANTS TO THE 5 DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM NUMBER OF NATIONAL JUNIOR TOURNAMENTS PER YEAR ORGANISED IN VANUATU 5 7

8 Junior Competition 5 National Competitions were organized in Following advice from ITF Development Officer for Oceania, Darran Wrighton, all the tournaments had now different formats and we introduced a new formula based on a ranking called the Junior Challenge. The new system has been highly successful and has allowed to keep competition challenging. The Junior Challenge will continue in Regionally, our juniors have done extremely well this year, winning for the second time the West-Pacific Regional Championships. Clement Mainguy continued to dominate our juniors but it was also great to see some good success stories for Warea Tigona, Marlin Hannam, Rosalie Molbaleh and Daisy Sipiti finished with our Under 14 Regional Championships. While the tournament was smaller this year, we enjoyed a great week of tennis with a lot of drama and for the first time some great doubles 8

9 Officiating A first introductory course to officiating was organized on the 7 th and 8 th December. The course aims at: 1. Preparing Ni-Vanuatu officials to officiate for the 2017 Mini-Games; 2. Preparing Ni-Vanuatu officials to officiate at Junior Tournament in 2016 and onwards. Daniella Tigona, Kasiroy tigona, Marc Runa, Michael Malapa, Pierre Takataveti, Tamata Quari, Wilson Kalpat, Daisy Sipiti participated to the training. The content of the training was taken from two sources: - The ITF Officiating Course that VTF paid prior to the training. This package contents two CD about officiating and the rules of the games; - Tennis Australia Officials Training Program documents as it can be found on df The following aspects were studied: Rules of the Game simplified version; Code of Conduct for Officials simplified version; Code of Conduct for Players full version; How to use a scorecards; Chair and line umpiring following ITF standard. The theoretical parts of the training were followed by on-court practices and all the candidates finished with a test. All the participants were actively involved and demonstrated some good knowledge of the games. Following the training, all trainees officiated at the U14 Regional Championships. In one week, we manage to have 120 matches officiated with no problems. Players and parents were satisfied with the chair-umpires work. Participants during the course Marc Runa officiating during the U14 Regional Junior 9 Chanpionships

10 Relationships with stakeholders We have continued to enjoy in 2015 great relationships with our funding agencies, sponsors and partners. Two new programs have been introduced in 2015: -The Australian Open Pacific Pathways which focuses on schools; -- The Santo Tennis Initiative with the financial support of the Department of Youth and Sports. This program has been possible with the support of the Hibiscus Motel and the great work done by our focal point in Santo: Lois Delattre. VTF received financial support from the International Olympic Committee via the VSANOC and from Tennis Australia, New-Caledonia Southern Tennis Clubs and the ITF to help us rebuild the tennis centre. All the donations will reported in a separate financial report. VTF in the media We published 6 Press Releases in 2015 all relayed by the Independent and on our Facebook page. Our Facebook Page has now 1033 members. In November, our website was re-launched following a course organized by VASANOC: 10

11 2016 Perspectives With new challenges ahead, it is necessary to improve planning and especially to better plan all financial aspects. In order to achieve this, we will release in early February a new action plan that will amend and complete the actual strategic plan. The new Action Plan will be oriented around four main programs: - Program 1: repair the centre and establish a great sport and social centre; - Program 2: train young people and adults from all social background to sport and tennis; - Program 3: develop an education in sport program; -Program 4: strengthen VTF and the Club administration. Summarised below are the main component of the four programs: PROGRAMS AND COMPONENT PROGRAM 1. MANAGE OUR FACILITIES AND CREATE A GREAT NATIONAL SPORTS CENTRE 1.1Repair/Renovate the Club in order to turn it into a National Centre 1.2.Ensure the National Centre is a great place for social/cultural and sports events 1.3. Continue to develop tennis in Santo PROGRAM 2. TRAIN YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS FROM ALL SOCIAL BACKGROUND TO SPORT AND TENNIS 2.1. Continue to support the development of sports at the Centre for young people and adults 2.2. Continue to expand the development program for local kids and build capacity 2.3. Train young people to competition, establish national junior team and participate to national and regional competition PROGRAM 3. EDUCATION AND SPORT 3.1. Create at the Centre an educational space to assist young people in their studies 3.2. Develop an educational assistance for young sports athlete 3.3. Offer sports qualification course PROGRAM 4. STRENGHTHEN VTF AND THE CENTRE ADMINISTRATION 4.1. Strengthen VTF administration 4.2. Strengthen the Centre Administration Our main focus in 2016 will be to increase participation through an increase of the development program towards early-childhood and primary schools. Our Australian Open Pacific Pathways Program will involve over 15 kindy in Vila and Santo and 10 primary schools. While training sessions at the Port-Vila Centre are expected to become more popular, we will continue to focus through the Junior Tennis Initiative on junior competitions nationally and regionally. 11

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