June 25th


Notes from Marco

Its practice time, we will be on court from 14:30 to 16:00.

We have 14 athletes here Funk, Paradis, Hirschfield, Crone, Simard, Chartrand, Luangkhamdeng, Murao, Willsie, Chan, Lavoie, Whitehead and not playing are Schmutz and Hickling.

We will have a special guest practicing with us Juan Foa from Argentina for both our practice sessions before the action starts on Friday against Japan at 11:00 am.

This tournament is a prelude to Paralympics as all the combatants are here and the pools will be the same so we have USA, Canada, Japan and China in one pool and Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Germany in the other.

Classification starts today and it will be interesting to see what comes out of this;)

At the Assembly yesterday we had 14 voting members USA, Australia, Canada, GB, New Zealand, Japan, Germany and China + Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, South Africa, Netherlands and Brazil and observers/ emailers from India, Argentina, Columbia, Austria.

Media game is at 13:00, Trevor Hirschfield will be representing Canada.

Xable.com, will be carrying 5 games this weekend starting on Saturday, I believe its 2 games on Saturday and 3 games on Sunday. John Bishop will be doing the play by play so don't miss any of the action.