Like a bird flying across the sky, we have entered the year 2023 almost without the notice. Now, I want to look back 2022 to see what we have accomplished in the past year.
Our mission is to grow friendship through tennis. We are tennis players, for the tennis players, and by the tennis players. AFNB (American First National Bank) has been our long time sponsor for the annual tennis tournament. We always want to improve this annual tennis event, which becomes our major task in 2022. It is quite difficult to organize a fair and transparent tennis event due to many communication barriers. Thus, we set up a website, panda2022tennis.site to publish our information, letting all the tennis players to know who we are, what rules for the tennis tournament, when and where the event is held. This greatly enhances the communication and helps us to further reach out more tennis players in the Houston area.
2022 AFNB tennis tournament (Oct. 22-23) is the 3rd consecutive year that we organized the event.
We have created a procedure, 1) define the tournament format, 2) secure the tennis venue, 3) public announce the tournament, 4) plan for prize, food and beverages, and 5) execute the schedule and perform the tournament format. After the tournament, we evaluated the tournament execution and gathered feedback from players. Unfortunately, this year’s tournament division A had a big rule violation and we could not be strong enough to push back. This is an important lesson learned for us. Player substitution ruined the game fairness and damaged our reputation. This incident leaves a black mark in our AFNB tennis tournament.
After the AFNB tournament, we are so fortunate to have a player-own company to sponsor a special event, Mixed Doubles challenge on November 25. It is very successful event, not only the first time we got new financial support from individual, but also the challenge match attracted various players like husband and wife, father and daughter, boy friend and girl friend team up. They challenged a men’s doubles team and totally randomly drew to match up whom they played with in a group. We had a lot of fun and every participant really enjoyed to play this kind of tennis event. Thanks Mr. Liu Dongfa and his brother Adam Liu.
The past year is a real successful year for us because we have accomplished so many things. In addition to the tennis events, we have added re-string tennis racquet and grip change services to better serve for our tennis players. We believe in 2023 we will continue to grow our influence in Houston tennis community and our tennis events will have more people to support and more tennis players to join us. We have gone through a difficult time to startup this journey. With your support and tennis player’s participation, we will constantly improve and get better with the time. Wish a good year 2023 and see you more often in the tennis courts and tennis tournament. Happy Chinese New Year!
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