Pegasus Post: June 18, 2019

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Falcks claim tennis awards
SPORT
BURWOOD PARK father and
son combo Reece and Andrew
Falck were both recognised for
their accomplishments at the
Canterbury Tennis Awards.
Reece, 17, was named
junior male player of the year,
while Andrew was named
performance coach of the year.
Over the last year, Reece
won two junior ITF doubles in
Christchurch and Malaysia. He
also reached his first ITF final
in April to take
his junior world
ranking inside
the top 500.
In January,
he won the 16
and under New
Zealand junior
Andrew
Falck
tennis title
by defeating
Rotorua’s Nick
Beamish 7-6, 6-3 in Auckland.
A month earlier he teamed up
with Auckland’s Filippo La Cava
to win the national 18 and under
doubles title.
He will travel to China and
Vietnam over the next month
to compete in more ITF events
with the goal of improving his
world ranking.
Reece moved to Christchurch
with his parents from
Johannesburg, South Africa, as
a five-year-old. His father took
up the junior coaching role at
Burwood upon their arrival and
has worked directly with Reece
since. He was awarded for his
RECOGNISED: Reece Falck was named junior male player of
the year at the Canterbury Tennis Awards. ​
work with Reece and a number
of other promising Canterbury
junior players, including Abby
Mason and Duncan McCall.
Andrew is also the tennis
coach at St Margaret’s College.
He was named St Margaret’s
coach of the year, while the
tennis team also took out the
school’s team of the year award.
Canterbury Tennis
Awards winners:
•Personality of the year:
Dylis Hancox and Sue
Dennis
•Junior female player of
the year: Abby Mason
•Junior male player of the
year: Reece Falck
•Club coach of the year:
Gareth Robb
•Performance coach of
the year: Andrew Falck
•Volunteer of the year:
Gordon Collingwood
•Administrator of the year:
Megan Bruynel
•Ian Jones memorial
award for service to tennis:
Tony Ralfe
•Player of the year: Tessa
McCann
•Club of the year: Waimairi
Tennis Club
CHAMPIONS: Maadi Kirikiri, Anika Park, Mika MacDonald and
Korban Turnbull defeated Russley to win the Canterbury junior
interclub matchplay title.
Junior matchplay title
for Chch club golfers
CHRISTCHURCH Golf Club
youngsters Maadi Kirikiri,
Anika Park, Mika MacDonald
and Korban Turnbull fired their
team to the Canterbury junior
interclub matchplay title.
They defeated Russley Blue’s
squad of Phong Nguyen,
Cooper Moore, Ethan Lam and
Yash Naicker, 3-1 in the final
at Templeton recently in cool
conditions, with the course in
great order.
After a delay due to a heavy
frost, all matches got under
way and were played in great
spirit.
All of the matches were tight,
with the last two being decided
on the 17th and 18th holes,
meaning the final could have
gone either way.
In the end, the Christchurch
team prevailed after a great
display of power hitting by Mika,
while Anika continuing to apply
pressure down the stretch in her
match.
“Thank you! For everything.
There are no words.”
Alison
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