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WACTA Past Announcements

2004
Winter Social Tennis, December 18, 2004

Winter social tennis will be
held on Saturday, December 18 from 7 P. M. until midnight at the Four Seasons
Tennis Club, VA. This event is open to both members and non-members. Formats
include scheduled and non-scheduled time slots. You are welcome to invite
non-member friends to play and enjoy this social event. Please fill out the
registration form and
e-mail to Ms. Xan Schmickel, social tennis director, at social@wacta.org.
Registration deadline is December 14, 2004. Registration fee, $15 per person
and paid when you check in. Spaces
are limited, please register early. If you have any questions, please contact
Ms. Schmickel at (703)328-1193. Dinner box will be served.

WACTA 2004 Men’s Doubles 3.0/4.0 Tournament Results
WACTA 2004 Men’s Doubles 3.0/4.0 tournament, sponsored by TECRO and OCAO, was successfully completed on November 11 at Four Seasons Tennis Club. Deputy Representative Stanley Kao of TECRO and Director Andrew Yen of OCAO presented trophies to winners. Congratulations to the trophy winners. Here are event pictures.

Division	3.0 Group	4.0 Group	4.0 Qtr-Finalists
1st	Andrew Ding Richard Luo	Alex Chiang Felix Sun	GuangYuan Hu Feng Qian Luoan Hu Peter Zhao Heneng Yu Feng Wei Tony Shen Hwarching Ku
2nd	Scott Huang Ian Huang	David Zhang Shenbao Qiu
3rd	Frank Zhang Ken Chen	Yan Cheng Sam Sun
4th		Jay Shi Yun Li

2004 Men’s 3.5 and 4.5 Doubles Tournament Date: December 11

2004 Men’s 3.5 and 4.5 Doubles tournament will be held on December 11 from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Four Seasons Tennis Club in Fairfax, Virginia. The tournament is sponsored by Ms. Yen-Den Ann Chan, certified senior advisor. The tournament is open to members only. Please fill out the registration form registration form .
and e-mail to Ms. Cathy Song, tournament director, at men3545@wacta.org . If you don't receive a confirmation after two days, please re-send your registration and call Cathy at 301-869-2628. Registration deadline is December 2 and registration fee, $15 per person, is paid when you check in. Dinner box will be served.

2004 Men’s 3.0 and 4.0 Doubles Tournament Date: November 13

2004 Men’s 3.0 and 4.0 Doubles tournament will be held on November 13 from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Four Seasons Tennis Club in Fairfax, Virginia. The tournament is sponsored by OCAC and TECRO. The tournament is open to members only. Please fill out the registration form and e-mail to Ms. Mindy Cheng, tournament director, at men3040@wacta.org . If you don't receive a confirmation after two days, please re-send your registration and call Mindy at (703)404-3971. Registration deadline is November 4 and registration fee, $15 per person, is paid when you check in. Dinner box will be served.

Professional Women Tennis
Tournament

A professional women tennis tournament will be held from October 10 to 17 in Ashburn, VA. Please visit the event web site for detail information.

2004 Team Tennis Results
WACTA 2004 Team Tennis was a successful tournament. After more than four hours of competition, Team Shelley came from behind and won the gold medal. The team is to keep the trophy one more year. Team Mindy, the silver medal winner, lost by just one point. Team Wesley was bronze winner. Captain Wesley and his massage classmate provided free massage to members. Many ladies took advantage of the service and enjoyed it very much. Team Chia-Chou didn't win a medal; nevertheless, team members were a bunch of happy campers. They enjoyed ice cold "team drink" before match and cheese cake after match. What can you ask more to build a team spirit? Thanks to Mr. Steven Ding and Evergreen Properties and Settlements for their generous support. Here are photos.

WACTA Welcomes Local Chinese Schools to Participate the Youth Tennis Program
Thanks to continuing support from the Rho Psi Foundation Inc. for past seven years. WACTA has been able to offer programs encouraging Chinese youth goes to the court and find his athletic talent in playing tennis. This past summer our youth enjoyed the Junior Intermediate Programs at the Nike Tennis camp in Salisbury University is located on Maryland's Eastern between July 5 and July 10, 2004.

This Fall, Rho-Psi Foundation, Inc. provides funding to the Washington Area Chinese Tennis Association (WACTA) to introduce and teach tennis to Chinese youth who are new to the sport of tennis. WACTA has decided to solicit interested Chinese schools in the Greater Washington DC areas to submit applications for funding. Detail and Application Form

2004 Shaw & Shaw Ladder Tournament Results
2004 Shaw & Shaw Ladder Tournament, sponsored by Shaw & Shaw Law Office, were successfully completed on August 15. Here are event pictures, final rankings, and Chinese news.

2004 Scott Cup Singles Tournament Results
2004 Scott Cup Singles Tournament, sponsored by Dr. Tsunie ChanChien and Mrs. Julie ChanChien, were successfully completed on August 22. There were 55 players. Congratulations to all winners. Here are event pictures.

Winners are:

Division	Men 3.0	Men 3.5	Men 4.0	Men 4.5
Champion	Sean Cheng	Eric Lee	Sam Sun	Steven Ting
Finalist	Tony Chen	Yiping Jia	Danny Chao	Kevin Yang
3^rd Place	Steven Yin	Mow Chung	Shenbao Qiu	Adam Wong
4^th Place	Jack Chau	Kevin Chen	Tsun Hing Cheung	David Zhang

Division	Women 3.0	Women 3.5	Women 4.0
Champion	Li-Chuan Chen	Shanna Lin	Olivia Chang
Finalist	Su-Hwa Chang	Maggy Hu	Juile Yang
3^rd Place		Xiaohui Xu
4^th Place		Stephanie Pao

Men 4.0
Quarter Finalists

Tony Shen

Kevin Tsou

Peter Zhao

Wen-Bing Shiu

2004 Scott Cup Singles Tournament Date: August 21 and 22
2004 Scott Cup Singles is to be held on August 21 and 22 at the Four Seasons Tennis Club. This tournament is sponsored by Dr. Tsunie ChanChien . The tournament is open to members only. Qualifications and rules are described in the detail file. Please fill out the registration form and e-mail to Mr. Kan Chang, tournament director, at scott@wacta.org . If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, please call Kan at (301)299-1312. Registration deadline is August 13 and registration fee, $20 per person, is paid when you check in. Lunch boxes will be served on Saturday, August 21.

2004
Team Tennis Tournament

Date: September 25

2004 Team Tennis will be held on September 25 at the
Four Seasons Tennis Club. This tournament is sponsored by Mr. Steven Ting
of Evergreen
Properties/Settlements.

Team captains are Ms. Shelley Xu, Ms. Mindy Cheng,
Mr. Chia-Chou Chang and Mr. Wesley Wang. Shelley is captain of defending
Team Shelley. The tournament
is open to members only.

Registration deadline is August 27. Team assignment
of registered players will be decided by lottery on August 28. The team
rosters will then be announced and players will be notified by your
captain. WACTA encourages all teams to have practice/team building
sessions before the tournament. Members can specify your desired partner
in the registration; we will do our best to make it possible for you to
play together.

Please fill out the registration form
and e-mail to Mr. Chin-Ho Lien, tournament director, at team@wacta.org

. If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, please call Chien-Ho
(301)424-7845.

And
registration fee, $15 per person, is paid when you check in. Dinner boxes
will be served.

>2004 Summer Camp
Report

Summer camp was held
from June 24 through June 27 at Salisbury University. It was a great success.
Thank Shelley Xu, Mindy Cheng; Jack Lin, Chia-Chou Chang, Huei-Hsiung Yang,
Amelia Chen, Shing-Bong Chen and S. L. Hung for their efforts to make all
activities successful. Also, thank Omega Chen, Kevin Yang and Tony Lee for
organizing poker game and Daniel Chen, Linda Chang and Debby Chang for helping
out Bingo.

style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> More than half of
campers took tennis clinic. They really enjoyed the classes and learned new
skills, tricks and strategies from coaches. Annual outlet mall shopping group
was formed quickly. It took two minivans to haul ladies’ purchases. Shelley even
organized an evening fashion show for ladies only.

style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Several campers also
took excursions to local golf court. We propose to include a golf tournament as
part of summer camp activities next year and hope to attract more members join
to the camp.

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Thank Roger Chin for the excellent
work,

Tournament winners are:

Division	Division A	Division B	Division C
Champion	Kevin Yang/Omega Chen	Shanna Lin/Jonathan Chen	Yar-Ping Chen/Daniel Chen
Finalist	Shelley Xu/Michael Hsu	Linda Chang/Debby Chang	Susan Pao/Sydney Pao
3^rd Place	Julie Yang/Wen-Bin Yang	Nancy Chen/Jon Chen	Stephanie Pao/Jessica Chen
4^th Place	Butterfly Chong/Jack Lin	Su-Foun Chin/Mike Tang	Andrew Lee/Arlene Chen

2004 Mixed Doubles 3.5 and 4.5 Tournament Results

2004 Mixed Doubles 3.5 and 4.5 Tournaments, sponsored
by Dr. Gerald Lin and Mrs. Carrie Lin, were
successfully completed on June 19. There were 21 3.5
teams and 13 4.5 teams. Ms. Sonia Lin presented
trophies to the winners. Congratulations to all
winners. Here are event pictures.

Division

3.5 Group

4.5 Group

3.5 Qtr-Finalists

1st

Shanna Lin / Perry Hong

Alice Chen / Robert Chu

Cathy Song / Haowen Mao

2nd

Yvonne Yao / Chaing Syin

Kathy Hwang / Sam Hwang

Stephanie Pao / Tony Lee

3rd

Nancy Shen / Fang Qian

Tina Ding / Tony Chan

Tammy Shen / Min-Yi Yen

4th

Lynne Liu / Ray Liu

Sharon Clinton / Tony Yeh

Maggy Hu / Danny Chao

2004 Mixed Doubles 3.0 and 4.0 Tournament Results

2004 Mixed Doubles 3.0 and 4.0 Tournaments, sponsored
by Capstar Commercial Realty, were successfully
completed on June 5. There were 28 4.0 teams and 6 3.0
teams. Mr. John Lin, President of Capstar, presented
trophies to the winners. Congratulations to all
winners. Here are event pictures.

Division

3.0 Group

4.0 Group

4.0 Qtr-Finalists

1st

Stephanie Pao / Ivan Lee

Juile Yang / Jon Chen

Jenny Lin / Charles Yong

2nd

Jennifer Fang / Eric Shih

Susan Hsieh / Fred Lau-he

Lilian Sung / Roger Hwang

3rd

Jessica Chen / Daniel Chen

Derli Chen / Wei Xiao

Jiang Hong / Feng Qian

4th

Nancy Huang / Joe Huang

Bu-Tan Ji / Tina Ding

Guangyuan Hu / Chishan Wai

2004 Summer Camp, June 24 – 27, Salisbury University, Maryland

The summer camp will be held from Thursday, June 24 through Sunday, June 27 at Salisbury University, Maryland.
Registration deadline is June 8. A $10 discount is given for registration before May
31. Please download the detail file for camp information and registration form.
Ms. Shelley Xu and Ms. Mindy Cheng are the summer camp directors.

2004 Sonia Cup Mixed Doubles 3.5 and 4.5 Date: June 19

2004 Sonia Cup Mixed Doubles 3.5 and 4.5 is to be held on Saturday, June 19 at the Four Seasons Tennis Club.
This tournament is sponsored by Dr. Gerald Lin and Mrs. Carrie Lin. The tournament is open to members only. Qualifications and rules are
described in the detail file. Please fill out the registration form and e-mail to Mr. Kan Chang, tournament director,
at mixed3545@wacta.org . If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, please call Kan at (301)299-1312. Registration deadline is
June11, 2004 and registration fee, $15 per person, is paid when you check in. Dinner boxes will be served. Additional dinner boxes, $5 each, can be reserved with S. L. Hung at (301)424-9040.

2004 Mixed Doubles 3.0 and 4.0 Date: June 5

2004 Mixed Doubles 3.0 and 4.0 is to be held on Saturday, June 5 at the Four Seasons Tennis Club.
This tournament is sponsored by Capstar Commercial Realty. WACTA member John Lin is company president. The tournament is open to members only. Qualifications and rules are
described in the detail file. Please fill out the registration form and e-mail to Mr. Jack Lin, tournament director,
at mixed3040@wacta.org . If you don't receive a confirmation within two days, please call Jack at (703)502-0129. Registration deadline is May 28, 2004 and registration fee, $15 per person,
is paid when you check in. Dinner boxes will be served. Additional dinner boxes, $5 each, can be reserved with S. L. Hung at (301)424-9040.

WACTA is on USTA's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Web Pages

Please visit USTA.com..
Thanks Ms. Shelley Xu for taking the initiative and working with USTA officials to make this happen.

2004 Shaw and Shaw Ladder: Registration Status (May 2)

There are 44 teams register for this tournament. Mr. Chia-Chou Chang,
2004 Ladder Director, has decided to expand the slots and accept the first
40 teams for 2004 Shaw and Shaw Ladder. Therefore, four teams are placed on the
waiting list. We haven't seen so many teams register for this popular summer
event. There are 16 teams that both players are family members and two families
register two teams each. We expect to have some family feud matches at the indoor tournaments.

Here is the
roster.

2004 Senior and Junior Doubles Tournament Results

2004 Senior and Junior Doubles Tournaments, sponsored
by the Rho Psi Foundation, were successfully completed on 4/17 at the Four Seasons Tennis
Club. There were 27 junior teams and 5 senior teams. Dr. Frank Pao, President
of Rho Psi Foundation, and Dr. James Hsu, long time WACTA youth program sponsor, presented
trophies to the winners.
Congratulations to all winners. Here are event pictures.

	Senior
1st	Larry Wu / Chi-Chang Lee
2nd	Jye Chen / Yen-Mow Lynn
3rd	Mei Fefolt / Anne Chen
	Junior 10 and Under		Junior 12 and Under
1st	Aries Wong / Leah Osnos	1st	Franklin Sun / Edwin Zhang
2nd	Gabriel Fan / Bob Ma	2nd	Andrew Hwang / Matthew Hwang
		3rd	Sean Cheng / Kevin Chen
	Girls 14 and Under		Boys 14 and Under
1st	Stephanie Pao / Tiffany Chang	1st	Ivan Lee / David Yang
2nd	Debby Chang / Jessica Chen	2nd	Arvin Wong / Victor Osnos
		3rd	Charles Kong / Michael Tang
	Girls 18 and Under		Boys 18 and Under
1st	Debby Chang / Yilian Zhang	1st	Alex Chiang / Felix Sun
2nd	Olivia Chang / Anny Ng	2nd	Jerry Tsao / Hailiu Yang
		3rd	Bryan Hsu / Kevin Hsu

2004 Shaw and Shaw Ladder: Calls for registration

Sponsored by Ms. Elaine Shaw of the Law Office of Shaw and Shaw,
the 2004 Shaw & Shaw Ladder Event is open for registration. This event kicks off on May 15th.
The Ladder will take the first 36 teams (all doubles, all skill levels, men,
women, or mixed). 2004 Ladder tournament rules

file is available for
download.

Registration fee is $50.00 per person.
Please download the Ladder registration
form and register early.
The deadline for registration is May 8. The tournament is limited to WACTA
members only. For any questions, please contact
Mr. Chia-Chou Chang, the Ladder Director, at shawladder@wacta.org.

2004 Youth Intermediate Summer Tennis, July 5 – 10, Salisbury University, Maryland

Thanks to continuing support from the Rho Psi Foundation Inc. WACTA is
offering the 2004 Junior Intermediate Programs for the seven consecutive years.
Intermediate players are those
who can serve, keep accurate scores, and play out complete matches.

This program will be held in at the Nike Tennis camp at Salisbury University is located on
Maryland's Eastern Shore and will be directed by Randy Halfpap.
For this Nike Camp, WACTA will register all the qualified players in the session between
July 5 and July 10, 2004. The cost for Nike Camp is $675. We are negotiating with camp director for a group rate.
(We will get 12% discount if we can get a group of 20 or more).

The application deadline for the junior program is April 7, 2004, and up to 36 positions is being
considered for Nike Camp. The program is designed for intermediate players who are Chinese American,
born on January 1, 1989 or later. If youth player was born before January 1, 1989 and younger than 18 years
old and like join Nike Camp, he/she can enjoy the group rate but will not receive financial support.
Selection criteria will be based on skilled level and potential determined during a mandatory try-out for
the player register for Nike Camp to be hold on April 17 at site which will be announced on this
web site. If you have any question or like obtain an application form, please contact Huei-hsiung Yang
by phone at (O) 301-590-0129 extension 495 or by e-mail at
teluhgwy@aol.com.

2004 Senior and Junior Doubles, April 17, 2004

Both tournaments are to be held on Saturday, April 17, 2004 at the Four Seasons Tennis Club.
Both events are open to members only. Seats are first-come, first-served. Qualifications and rules are
described in the detail file. Please fill out the registration
form and e-mail to Mr. Chia-Chou Chang, the tournament director,
at seniorjunior@wacta.org . Registration deadline is April 9, 2004 and registration fee, $15 per person,
is paid when you check in. If you have any registration questions, please contact Mr. Chang at
(703)435-3625. Pizza for youngsters and dinner boxes for seniors will be served.
Additional dinner boxes, $5 each, can be reserved with S. L. Hung at (301)424-9040.

2004 Spring Social Tennis, April 10, 2004

Spring social tennis will be held on Saturday, April 10 from 7 P. M. until midnight at the Four Seasons Tennis Club, VA. This event is open to both members and non-members. The formats include scheduled and non-scheduled time slots. Spring social tennis offers members an opportunity to look for new doubles partners or competitive singles players. You are welcome to invite non-member friends to play and enjoy this social event.

Please fill out the registration form and e-mail to Ms. Xan Schmickel, the event director, at social@wacta.org. Registration deadline is April 6, 2004. Registration fee, $15 per person and paid when you check in. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Schmickel at (703)328-1193 or S. L. Hung, Exec Secretary, at (301)424-9040. Dinner box will be served. Additional dinner boxes, $5 each, can be reserved with S. L. Hung.

WACTA 2004 Jimmy Shaw Women's Doubles - sponsored by Dr. Robert Chu

WACTA has dedicated the 2004 Women's Doubles Tournament to the fond
memory of long-time WACTA sponsor and great friend, Jimmy Shaw. The
tournament was successfully completed on February 28 at the Four Seasons
Tennis Club.
This dedication was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Dr.
Robert Chu, a well-known ophthalmologist in the Washington area.
In the award ceremony, Dr. Chu indicated that he has participated in the
Shaw and Shaw Tennis Ladder, which was sponsored by Jimmy Shaw, many
times in the past, and has greatly enjoyed what the Ladder has provided
for WACTA members. Dr. Chu lauded Jimmy's passion for and generosity
towards the game.
President Shing-Bong expressed that he was very touched by Dr. Chu's
generosity. This Women's Doubles tournament has provided a forum for
WACTA members to memorialize Jimmy and to participate in the sport that
Jimmy loved most.
Elaine Shaw and her mother, accompanied by friends, came to see the
tournament and were warmly greeted by our members.
The tournament was sold to capacity - another outstanding event! This
tournament marked the last event organized by the 2003-2004 WACTA
administration. By all measures, including players' competition level
and spectators' excitement, it may have been the most successful event
in our term. On that note, we bid farewell to all of you and wish you
the best in everything you do.
Below are the playoff detail result and event
pictures.

	3.0 Div		3.5 Div.
#1	Lure, Jennifer/Lure, Allison	#1	Lin, Daphne/Lin, Tiffany
#2	Alebajina, Wulin/Koe, Mai Mai	#2	Shen, Nancy/Wu, Su-Foun
#3	Lien, Shih-Chun/Cheng, Isabel	#3	Chang, Debby/Chen, Jessica
		#4	Yao, Yvonne/Chen, Connie
	4.0 Div.		4.5 Div.
#1	Wong, Meiling/Tham, San	#1	Chen, Alice/Lee, Michelle
#2	Chiang, Maggie/Sung, Lilliam	#2	Lin, Debora/Xu, Shelley
#3	Lien, Catherine/Chang, Olivia	#3	Xiong, Yiwei/Zhang, Jeannie
#4	Chang, I-Fei/Yang, Julie	#4	Ding, Tina/Hwang, Kathy

WACTA 2004 Election and Annual Banquet

On Saturday, February 21, at New Fortune restaurant, over 210 members got
together to celebrate the advancement of WACTA into another new year. This year
was our 13th Anniversary! We are proud to be such a remarkable organization in
both size and influence in the Washington area, with family members totaling
over 930 and individual members surpassing 460, in addition to new members
joining at every new tournament.

This year, the banquet was co-hosted by Shih-Chun Lien, Wesley Wang, and Shelley
Xu, and there was no shortage of fun and excitement, with activities ranging
from a karaoke singing performance to raffle ticket drawings to dancing.
Please enjoy the photos. Awards
were also presented to the sponsors, staff, and board of directors for their
contributions.

The most important activity conducted during the night was the election of the
new board of directors and president. Our newly elected president is Shing-Bong
Chen, and the new board of directors is as follows: Mindy Cheng, Chia-Chou
Chang, Jack Lin, Kan Chang, Chin-Ho Lien, S.L. Hung, and Shing-Bong Chen.
Congratulations to all!

We, the outgoing staff and board of directors, are deeply grateful for the
support from all of you in this year's events. We hope you will continue this
same enthusiasm for tennis and support of WACTA events in the upcoming year.

To assist you in planning early for this year's coming events, the following are
a few upcoming dates. Details will be announced later.

. Spring Social Tennis, April 10, 2004

. Junior and Senior Doubles, April 17, 2004

. Summer Camp, June 24-27, 2004 at Salisbury University

Remembering
Jimmy

WACTA has recently learned that our beloved friend and generous sponsor, Jimmy
Shaw, has passed away on 1/21/04. Jimmy was killed in a Jet Ski accident in
Mexico while on vacation with his wife Elaine, their two kids, and other family
friends.

Jimmy had provided great support for WACTA via the Shaw & Shaw Tournament, a
summer long tennis ladder that has been extremely popular among our members.
For many years, this tennis ladder has provided WACTA members with a venue to
compete fiercely and treasure the camaraderie built from this enjoyable
tournament. Jimmy will be forever remembered by all of us for his passion to
help and his generosity towards others, including WACTA.

A memorial service will be held on 2/01/04, Sunday, 10:00 AM, at Hines-Rinaldi

Funeral Home, 11800 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20904 Tel:
301-622-2290. The funeral rite committee has informed WACTA that, shall you
wish to donate to Jimmy's children's education fund, please make your check out
to Elaine Shaw. Any flower or wreath will, however, be gratefully declined. Many
of Jimmy's friends have contributed to the following website, which provides
further details. mywebpages.comcast.net/jimmyshaw2

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