WTFC - Master League Semi-Finals Preview

Morning Match: Tony Permal (FRA) VS Sebastian Koh (AUS)
1000H, Faber Crest

Although we are moving towards the end of the season, the matches are just starting to get exciting! 2 Classic matches in one day ya! Splendid! Tony VS Sebastian and the 0ther is a battle between 2 good friends, Emoki VS Kira! The audience shall have lots of mouth watering moments watching them play next weekend.

The Battle between the 2 highest ITN & NTRP Rank player in the league should trigger a 5 stars match! Catch them LIVE at Court 1 next Saturday!


Afternoon Match: Emoki Nakajima (USA) VS Shinji Kira (JPN)
1600H, Faber Crest

In the afternoon, we shall see an repeat rivalry between 2 good friends, Emoki & Kira. Emoki has a 2-0 head-to-head against Kira, but Kira has been a in top form since the start of the WTFC 2nd round. In the round robin, Kira managed to pull of a surprise victory against Tony and Ronny, will he be able to repeat the form against the 'Prince' who suffer a left wrist injury while playing against the great emperor last morning.

Catch them LIVE at Court 1 next Saturday!

WTFC - Master League Round Robin Day 2

After taking a 3 weeks break, the top 8 players are back on the courts to battle off for the title of the year, The Grand Master. Can Nakajima retained his crown? Or would it be 3 times WTFC League champions, Sebastian? Or will there be a new champion this year? We shall know the answer in a weeks time.

DAY 1 - Orange Group
Players
Tony Permal (FRA)
Ronny Tan (SIN)
Kenji Tahoma (JPN)
Shinji Kira (JPN)

ORANGE GROUP	Tony Permal	Ronny Tan	Kenji Tahoma	Shinji Kira
Tony Permal	-	4-6 , 6-2, 6-4	7-6, 6-3	6-3, 5-7, 4-6
Ronny Tan	6-4, 2-6, 4-6	-	6-3, 6-4	4-6, 5-7
Kenji Tahoma	6-7, 3-6	3-6, 4-6	-	7-5, 7-6
Shinji Kira	3-6, 7-5, 6-4	6-4, 7-5	5-7, 6-7	-

Qualified for Semi-Finals
Tony Permal (1st Position)

Publish Post

Shinji Kira (2nd Position)

SEMI-FINALS Draw
Morning Game: Tony Permal (FRA) VS Sebastian Koh (AUS)
Match begin at 1000H, Faber Crest Court 1

Afternoon Game: Emoki Nakajima (USA) VS Shinji Kira (JPN)
Match begin at 1600H, Faber Crest Court 1

WTFC - Master League Round Robin Day 1

After taking a 3 weeks break, the top 8 players are back on the courts to battle off for the title of the year, The Grand Master. Can Nakajima retained his crown? Or would it be 3 times WTFC League champions, Sebastian? Or will there be a new champion this year? We shall know the answer in a weeks time.

DAY 1 - Green Group
Players
Emoki Nakajima (USA)
Sebastian Koh (AUS)
Rayner Lim (SIN)
Grismond Tien (SIN)

GREEN GROUP	Nakajima	Sebastian	Rayner	Grismond
Nakajima	-	4-6 , 5-7	7-6, 6-4	6-2, 6-4
Sebastian	6-4, 7-5	-	6-2, 6-2	6-0, 6-4
Rayner	6-7, 4-6	2-6, 2-6	-	7-5, 7-6
Grismond	2-6, 4-6	0-6, 4-6	5-7, 6-7	-

Qualified for Semi-Finals
Sebastian Koh (1st Position)
Emoki Nakajima (2nd Position)

Team TFC Against Team SP

Team TFC 3, SP 2

Singapore Polytechnic, Clementi -- Team TFC continued marching on with their unbeaten run after beating Team SP with a 3-2 win over this evening. Peter, our team coordinator had a major reshuffle of the team line up today.

Kenji Tahoma, gave Team TFC the 1-0 by winning the opening singles match over Eugene Wong of SP 6-2, 6-2.

Ronny Tan come back from 4 games down to defeat Jerry Yap 6-4, 6-3 in the 2nd Singles Match.

The most surprising pair to team up today, Sebastian Koh & Emoki Nakajima were nickname the devil's pair by Team SP as they demostrated what is the difference between the Royals and the boys. Our Royal pairs demolished the boys 6-0, 6-0 and drop only 7 points throughout the 42 mins match. Are the pairs really from this planet??

Aki Masa was defeated by SP, Ramesh 3-6, 4-6 in the 3rd singles. Rayner & Grismond also lost in today's match against Xiao Ming & Fu Hua, 4-6,4-6. Although defeated, the pair showed great partnership throughout the match, we believe that they have great potential to be great pair partners in time to come.

WTFC Week 17 Review

After 4 long months of the competition, these are the winners and and runners-up for each of the zones.

North:
Champion: Ronny Tan
Runners-up: Rayner Lim

South:
Champion: Shinji Kira
Runners-up: Grismond Tien

East:
Champion: Emoki Nakajima
Runners-up: Tony Permal

West:
Champion: Sebastian Koh
Runners-up: Kenji Tahoma

Yet again, Congratulations to the Masters! We shall see these 8 fantastic players competing for the Season-End event WTFC Masters League which will begin in October. We wishes them good luck!

Team TFC Against Team SAFRA (Singles Only)

Team TFC 3, SAFRA 0

SAFRA Club, Yishun -- Team TFC cruised to an easy 3-0 win over SAFRA this evening. Our guys put on a fantastic performance and really shows why they are regarded as one of the top seeds in WTFC League. Congratulation Guys!

Sebastian, the reigning 3 times WTFC Overall League Champion demonstrated on how he is being regarded as the Emperor with straight sets win over SAFRA Jason 6-1, 6-0.

Emoki, the current No.2 rank player in the league, performed nothing lesser than the Emperor, riding on to yet another 6-0, 6-0 victory over SAFRA Ramesh.

Kira managed to take control of the match after trailing 4-0 in opening set to SAFRA, Roger and eventually rewrote set score to 6-4, before winning the match with 6-2 in the second set.

WTFC Week 16 Review

Congratulation to Sebastian aka the Emperor by claiming the 3rd consecutive WTFC titles by defeating Jing Chen, 6-2 6-1. The emperor was simply awesome and unbeaten the whole season before winning the crown with 1 more game to go.

The Prince, Emoki on the other end of the island climb to the top of the East Zone and also move up to WTFC No 2 spot with a classic straight sets win over veteran Peter Robson of 6-1, 6-1. The win caused French Genius, Tony Permal to suffer a drop to the 3rd spot even with a win over Natalie, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.

The dog fight continued this week with the remaining players fighting for the last 4 spots for the Master league with only 2 matches remaining. Shinji Kira secured his place in the final 8 with a brilliant win over the more experience Jon Pearson 7-6, 6-4. The win also determined that Kira is the Champion for the South Zone.

Team TFC Against Team Balmoral

Team TFC 3, Team Balmoral 2

Balmoral Park-- Team TFC played against one of the titan in the hill woods just outskirt of the popular Orchard road with a half strength team. However, TFC still managed to pull off a convincing 3-2 win over the Balmoral titans.

Their Top singles player, Vincent rulz over Kira with a surprise 6-2, 4-2 lead in the first 2 sets, but Kira managed to turn the match around eventually and win 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Rayner represented Team TFC in the 2nd Singles match also capture a win with a 6-1, 7-6(2) victory over Titans, Mark Anderson. The 19-year-old has been a great dependent player for TFC so far securing all win in all the matches he participated.

Jon Peterson, takes on Balmoral's Captain, Thomas Collins with equally good perfomance but eventually lost to a 2 set tie breaks match 6-7, 6-7.

TFC Top doubles pair, Ronny Tan & Grismond Tien continued to own their opponents in doubles matches with another straight sets win of 6-4, 6-4.

Michelle & Natalie paired up for the 1st time to take on Balmoral's women pair, Urike & Yap. The opponents have great combination and partnership which eventually made TFC suffer a 5-7, 5-7 defeat.

The next event will be against SAFRA.

WTFC Week 15 Review

The contest for the last 4 places for the Master League trigger a dog fight in the league this week.

Shinji kira is simply unstoppable since the start of the 2nd round, proving that he is really the great dictator in WTFC. He stopped the winning streak of Sako Maki with a 7-6, 7-5 win to remain as the league leader for South Zone.

Jon Pearson suffered another defeat this week, losing 4-6, 6-2, 5-7 to Nicholas Keane. The defeat might mean Jon could be missing out at this year Master League with 2 matches remaining.

Kenji, Rayner, Grismond have an easy game this week with all winning in straight sets.

Congratulation for Andy and Asada who have qualify for the promotion play-off into the Zone League next Season. They will play against the 2 lowest rank players in the Zone league to determine their qualification. We wish them all the best!

Team TFC Against Team Maplewood

Team TFC 5, Team Maplewood 0

Maplewood -- Although Team TFC rested their Top 3 players for today matches, The team still managed to stretch their unbeaten run to 3 matches. The Emperor & Prince was watching the rest of the team with the Peter Robson, the team coordinator at the resting area, giving their valuable advise as and when we are dropping off points. Thanks to them as we are able to ride over Team Maple with yet another all wins.

Replacing Sebastian today as the 1st singles is Kira, with another dictatorship display to defeat the Maple's Suresh 6-2, 6-0 in the 1st Singles Match. Kira doesn't look back after leading the first set 4-2.

Kenji, takes on Maple's Captain, Stanley with perfomance equal to he closest rival, Kira to win 6-3, 6-2 in another pretty 1 sided match which ended with within an hour.

I, Natalie was given a chance to represent the team for my very first singles match today ya. (Delighted) My opponent, Ling was a tought opponent ya, firing plenty of powerful flat serves at me and giving me a hard time returning her heavy ground strokes. I was thinking at some point she was Serena William. I lost my 1st set 2-6. *Cried* During the set break, Peter gave me some pointers. Sebast & Emoki run me through with Ling's weaknesses and there was this japanese gal, Miya, who tagged alsong with Emoki today to watch our play gave me mavellous counter tips ya. Eventually, I turned unstoppable, winning the 3rd singles match 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

TFC Top doubles pair, Ronny Tan & Grismond Tien was still undefeated since they paired up. The duo secured also their win by defeating Dong & Harvey 7-5, 6-3.

Jon & Rayner paired up for the 1st time to finish write another 5-0 all win for this exhibition match by defeating Maple's pair 6-4, 6-4.

The win has extend Team TFC to 3 events victories. The next event will be against Team Balmoral.

WTFC Week 14 Review

Congratulations to the Top 4 Seeds, Tony Permal, Sebastian Koh, Ronny Tan and Emoki Nakajima to secure their places in the Master League this Season with victories over their opponents this week. Tony Permal suffered a surprise 1st set lost to tough guy Peter Robson before picking up the remaining sets with a come back win by 6-7, 6-3, 6-4.

In form Emperor, Sebastian takes down his closest west zone rival, Kenji in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. The win stretches Emperor unbeaten run to 15 matches in all competitions this season. The Prince on the other end, wiped off his opponent, Aaron Guo with yet another 6-0, 6-0 results.

The Dictator, dictated a win over good friend, Grismond Tien to bring him to the Top of South Zone table. The duo showcase a classic 3 sets triller as the match of the week over at Court 2, Carribbean which saw Kira edge with a 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 win over the Baby Face Killer.

Michelle Kim saw herself closer in qualifying the Master League for the very first time since her participation by moving up to No. 5 in the WTFC ranking after defeating Gao Zhijie, 6-4, 6-3 in the North Zone.

Team TFC Against Team Hollandse

Team TFC 5, Team Hollandse 0

Hollandse Club, Camden -- The Emperor, Sebastian put up yet another superb performance to defeat the Hollandse's Captian Ignaas 6-0, 6-0 in the 1st Singles Match over at Court 3.

Prince Emoki, also managed to sequel Sebast performance to demolish Rikhart 6-0, 6-0 in another pretty 1 sided match which ended with just 45mins.

Taking the position for Kenji for the 3rd Singles game is Rayner. Rayner take this opportunity to showcase his capabilies and signal that he is also another "big thing" to look out for in Team TFC after defeating Janzen 6-3, 6-1.

Riding on their victory form last week, TFC duo Ronny Tan & Grismond Tien secured their 2nd win as double's pair by defeating Laager & Klaas 6-4, 6-4.

Shinji Kira & Aki Masa finished off their opponents 6-4, 6-2 to give Team TFC a perfect 5-0 win for this week exhibition match. The two good friends showed an almost flawless partnership today with Kira dictating the game and Aki finishes with winners.

The win has extend Team TFC to 2 events victories. The next event will be against Team Maplewood. Time & Venue TBC.

Kenji Tahoma

Kenji Tahoma (JPN)
NTRP rating: 4.5
Birthdate: 12-Dec-84
Birthplace: Kobe, Japan
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 68 kg
Play: Right Handed
Style: All Courts
Tactical: Offensive
Strength: Powerful Top Spin, Force Errors
Racquet: Babolat AeroPro Drive Cortex


If Kira is the Dictator in the league, then Kenji would be the Magistrate. Both players have the ability to dictate the games to their favours. To me, Kenji looks more like a casino goer who will put up the poker face during the game. But the Vice-Captain of Team Tennis de Faber Crest is very friendly in nature and he do has his sense of humour ya.

He is emotionless whenever he is in the game. Kenji is also very calm during matches and often proves himself as a worthy opponent. To win against him will takes more than just skill and effort. He is patient and adaptive to all the various style of play. Competent and experience with his High School Team back in Japan, Kenji has been rank within the top 5 players for 3 consecutive years.

His main assault will be his top spin which will bounce off the ground and reach an off shoulder height that is difficult to return, especially if he hit the ball deep. He plays with heavy ground stroke and has superb single backhand. Great first and second serves left his opponents no chance to ever think of getting a nice return.


Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 6
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: 5
Current WTFC West-Zone Race - Singles: 2

Sebastian Koh

Sebastian Koh (AUS)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 12-Jan-85
Birthplace: Melbourne, Australian
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 63 kg
Play: Left Handed
Style: All Court
Tactical: Counter Puncher, Technical Tennis
Strength: Accuracy, Positioning, Consistency
Racquet: Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Racquets



This Aussie Chinese is the reigning 2 times consecutive Overall Champions of WTFC league is certainly somebody who deserved to be nickname as the Emperor in the league. Was unbeaten in league matches for the past 2 years. His only official defeat within the 2 years dominance came from Emoki, whom beaten him at last year Master's Finals.

Sebastian, together with Emoki, are well-known for their completeness in tennis. The lefty possess precision accuracy shots which definitely makes you run like monkey. Don't even try your luck playing his backhand and praying that it could be his weakness or else you might end up thinking that you are actually playing with Federer on the other end.

Sebastian was a once a student with Melbourne International Tennis School and was also the High School champions during the summer and winter games. A talented player who gave up going professional to take over the family business. However, he is committed to be part of the league and Team TFC, which is definitely a hooray! Can't wait to see this Idol of mine to take on more elites in the near future which could only make him playing even better.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 1
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: 1
Current WTFC North-Zone Race - Singles: 1

Rayner Lim

Rayner Lim (SIN)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 22-Aug-90
Birthplace: Singapore
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Play: Right-Handed
Style: Base-Liner
Tactical: Offensive
Strength: Natural Footwork, Vast Competitive Experience
Racquet: Wilson nTour nCode



Rayner, only in his debut season for WTFC League, Rayner has already been tagged as one of the emerging stars of the league. Offensive play, great footwork and plenty of inter-schools tournaments previously have prepared Rayner to become a competitive player for the league.

Being one of the youngest players in the league, Rayner has plenty of chances to develop into a even better player in the coming years. Rayner powerful ground strokes on has often caused great fear to his opponents. He hit shots which are able to find great depth and angle to compliment his pacey ground strokes. Sometimes, that is enough to make him quite invincible.

A very tough opponent and experienced tennis player wh om is also selected to be in Team Tennis de Faber Crest, I would expect Rayner to do very well in both league, zone and exhibition events for the rest of 2008.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 9
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: N/A
Current WTFC North-Zone Race - Singles: 2

WTFC Week 13 Review

Tony, Sebastian & Emoki cruised on with unbeatable form over Cao Ming, Edward Sim & Sun Yijie respectively. Ronny went down to Michelle Kim for the 2nd time this season leaving their all time Head-to-Head 1-3. Taking advantage of Ronny's lost, Emoki moved up 1 place in rank, currently standing at No.3.

Aki Masa created yet another suprise win over Kenji Tahoma by defeating the West Zone No. 2 7-6, 3-6, 6-3. The win sees Aki being unbeaten for the past 3 matches and Aki next match will be against the bottom table Kelvin Chong.

Baby Face Killer, Grismond Tien made South Zone title challenge wide open after defeating the No.5 Seed in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2.

Current Ranking

Team TFC Against Team SRC

Team TFC 4, Team SRC 1

Caribbean, Keppel -- TFC No. 2 Seed Sebastian Koh put Team TFC to a flying start after defeating the Vice Captian of Team SRC's, Andy Lim 6-2, 6-0 in the 1st Singles Match at Court 2. The 23-year-old Aussie fired 10 aces and converted 5 of 13 break points to seal the victory being unbeatable with a 4-2 lead after 32mins.

Sealing the 2nd win for TFC in the 2nd Single was the 3 lungs man, Kenji Tahoma. Having also defeated Michael Gaye 6-2, 6-1.

Emoki Nakajima, who is currently No. 4 in the WTFC League 2008 , managed to carry on his superb unbeatable form which he used to defeat Tony Permal last week. The 23 year old demolished Jonathan Fong 6-0, 6-0 in just 42mins.

Playing as partner for the first time, TFC duo Ronny Tan & Grismond Tien also managed to secure the win for TFC in the 1st doubles match. They defeated the SRC duo 7-6, 6-4.

Team TFC only defeat came from the mixed doubles match. The UK mixed, Jon Pearson & Natalie Young were given a surprise defeat after dropping 4 match points and beaten by SRC mixed duo, Billy Wright & Stella Ong,6-4, 7-6(2), 6-3.

The victory sealed the 1st Team win for Team TFC. The team was only formed early last week and this exhibition match was their 1st ever Team competitive matches. Their next match will be against Tanglin Tennis Team next week. Venue TBC.

Exhibition Match- Shinji Kira (TFC) Against Gerald Nathan(TTC)

Match favorites, Shinji Kira aka The Tennis Dictator, continued his amazing streak by defeating
Gerald Nathan to capture another winning performance for TFC. In front of away crowd, the Semi-Finalist of the Master League last year came through 7-6(6), 6-2 in a thrilling exhibition match of the highest quality.

“Nathan was one of the very, very tough player of the Tanglin Team. I am glad that I am able to read his game in the first set which gave me more confidence to win the 2nd set” said Kira

“Kira style of playing is amazing. He read my mind which let me totally owned! Given the chance, I would like to play with him again!” said Nathan.

Exhibition Match- Kenji Tahoma (TFC) Against Richard Teng (CSC)

Kenji Tahoma will be one of the favorites to be in the starting line up for Team TFC coming Thursday after defeating Richard Teng 6-3, 6-4 in the warm up match earlier.

The 26-year-old was playing his 3rd match of the week, having won all 3 matches. Kenji Tahoma is now one of the hot favorites to compete in the Master League in September.

"It's special to win the your first match as a team and also with the support of the teammates and I am extremely happy for that," Tahoma said. "The match was really tough. Although the result itself doesn't show that. I dropped my first game and get myself into several break points situation. I knew the longer the match lasted the more disadvantages I would have because I could see he was getting more and more into the game. When I won the first set, what I knew was to get one break as soon as possible for the 2nd set to order to win this match."

Kenji Tahoma, nick name 'The Samurai" is the Vice Captain of Team TFC. There is a possibility that we will see him playing in the doubles alongside with Aki Masa for the Exhibition Match on Thursday.

Exhibition Match- Emoki Nakajima (TFC) Against James Ransome (Hse)

The Prince, Emoki has a wonderful performance this evening, defeating Hollandse James Ransome 6-2, 6-2 earlier at the Exhibition match in Hollandse Club to notch the first match win for Team TFC since its formed earlier this week. The 23-year-old Emoki broke Ransome's serve four times to stretch his unbeaten run to 8th matches in less than an hour.

"It feels amazing to win like this after an anticipated tough battle," said Emoki. "I was playing really well and leading 5-0 40-0 and then maybe I stopped being so aggressive and he came back strong for the deuce & break point. James played an amazing game and there was not much I could do without luck on my side. I just tried to stay aggressive by going forward and managed to take my chances. James has been a great opponent today and I hope to play against him again soon."

Emoki, who was only beaten once this season by Tony Permal, should be representing Team TFC in the Team Exhibition match in one of the singles matches against SRC this Thursday.

Exhibition Match: Ron (TFC) Against Andy (SRC)

Captain Ronny was gunned down 6-3, 6-3 on Grass by SRC representative, Andy Lim. Andy showed powerful and accurate winners which sent Ronny guessing the wrong direction most of the time. Ronny wasn't having a bad game either, hitting 14 Aces past the Vice Captian of the SRC Team.

This is just an opening warm up match between the 2 teams' captains for the showdown exhibition match on Thursday evening. The match format will be 3 Singles Matches & 2 Double Matches. I believe that it would be exciting. haha.

Great thing is that Team TFC has been formed! And a warm welcome for the following players below! Omg! I still cannot believe with playing alongside with the league leaders of WTFC! Sebast, Ronny, Emoki, Kenji and all the others!! *fainted. haha.

Team Tennis de Faber Crest

1. Ronny Tan (Captain)
2. Emoki Nakajima
3. Shinji Kira
4. Aki Masa
5. Jon Pearson
6. Sebastian Koh
7. Kenji Tahoma (Vice Captain)
8. Grismond Tien
9. Rayner Lim
10. Natalie Young (F)
    
11. Michelle Kim (F)
    
12. Peter Robson (Coodinator/Manager)

Emoki & Kenji will be playing their warm up matches tomorrow against Hollandse & CSC respectively. Wish them luck!

Week 12 Matches Review!

First of all, congrats to Emoki, aka the Prince of WTFC for bringing the No 1 Seed to his first defeat of the season. Although it is a tough fought match between them, Emoki won the match in straight sets 7-6, 7-5 eventually.

Tony's defeat also sees him drop to the No.2 spot as last year Master League Runner's up, Sebastian rallied on with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over the 7 Seed, Saycon Jemon. This also stretches his unbeaten run to 9 matches this season.

Baby Face assassin, Grismon moved up 2 places in the South-Zone league after defeating Nicholas Keane in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5 while Shinji Kira and No. 3 Seed Ronny Tan, both cruised on with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over their opponents.

Current Ranking

Forming a team from WTFC league players?

This question has to be raised as I received the 7th invitations from another Club Team which wil be interested playing with the WTFC team, if any.

A WTFC team? If we can form one, what else can be more interesting than that ya?
The problem is who are the players which might be interested to commit yet another previous time slot for friendly matches ya?

The league will be running till Sept. Followed immediately will be the Master League. Then, it will be the monsoon. But, I believe that Players such as Ron is definitely keen to form up the team. I still think that we could try. As forming a team isn't a bad idea after all!

Matches For This Week: Round 2 - Match 2

Woohoo! Not 1 but 2 matches of the week!

You got to grab your seats fast!

Michelle Kim

Michelle Kim (KOR)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 29-Jul-83
Birthplace: Singapore
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Play: Right-Handed
Style: Base-Liner
Tactical: Offensive
Strength: Power serve, Power shot
Racquet: Yonex NanoSpeed RQS 11



Michelle, a Korean international who shares a great passion and enjoyment for the game of tennis. She is arguably one of the best ladies player in WTFC League and has experience playing in a couple of tournaments back in her hometown. An intelligent player, whom easily able to vary her shot selection to her opponent's hitting style and exploit their weaknesses.

She see no difficulty holding her own against many of the guys playing in WTFC and certainly not any push over. If you play against Michelle, beware of her powerful ground strokes and never think it is gonna be an easy ride!

Michelle's winning asset is still her great accuracy and power serves that Aces across her opponents. She's packed with speed and stamina too, and she uses this with good effect to set up winners from her groundstrokes.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 14
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: 12
Current WTFC North-Zone Race - Singles: 4

Match of The Week - Emoki Nakajima Against Tony Permal (Preview)

Oh my goodness! Emoki Vs Tony Permal.
This certainly going to be the Match of the Week or probably the Match of the Season ya. I'll definitely free up myself this weekend to be there to watch this match. *excited* ^_^

I hope Emoki will win. haha. But Tony is just too strong, he has beaten Emoki in the 1st Round and still unbeaten since he joined the league. This expatriate from France has been bullying us since match 1, someone please stop him! lol.

If there is to be someone who can stop him to win the title this year, I believe Emoki will be one of them. Sebastian - Another killer, Ronny aka Pete Sampras of WTFC or Kenji Tahoma - 3 lungs man. Just too bad the later 3 are in the different zones so they won't be meeting each other until the Master League.

So Emoki, please do the killing ya! <333 haha.

Natalie Signoff.

Grismond Tien

Grismond Tien (SIN)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 19-Mar-89
Birthplace: Singapore
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Play: Left-Handed
Style: Base-Liner
Tactical: Counter Puncher
Strength: Power serve
Racquet: Babolat Pure Drive Plus



Grismond is a student with MDIS majoring in Business Administration. At 15, he is already junior representative for STA. Plague with elbow injuries which forces him into exile from tennis for 2 yrs. Now, back with a vengence this year, he already shows great potential and no sign of a once injury plague player with his solid ground strokes and power play off the forehand and backhand sides.

He also has a formidable big serves and will throw it up now and then. As a lefty, his favourite player is Nadal and emulates around that Spaniard style of play. Being a great fan of Kira & Emoki, you would see them sparring with each other even after a tough fought match.

A promising young player to watch and could poised the threat as the title contender in days to come.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 13
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: N/A
Current WTFC South-Zone Race - Singles: 2

Shinji Kira

Shinji Kira (JPN)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 12-Dec-84
Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan
Height: 181 cm
Weight: 73 kg
Play: Right Handed
Style: Serve & Volley
Tactical: Offensive
Strength: Game Reading, Net Points
Racquet: Wilson K Factor KSix-One Team


Kira is a Tennis Dictator in his own world. He is always calm, composed and never shows much emotions. Nothing really bothers or frustrates him. I personally likes to watch Kira play as he has a wonderful array of shots. He reads game so well that before you notice it, he has already made you his next puppet.

Being tall, he make used of every opportunities to come up to the net and win points. His main weapon would be his serve that is often placed with great accuracy and offensive play.He plays a very traditional game with a single handed backhand, great serve and nice ground strokes.

A worthy opponent on the tennis courts, he can easily vary his game to suite different styles of play and can easily adapt to changing situations. Begin with a slow start into the season and the dictatorship is getting back right on time for the 2nd half of the season.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 12
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: 5
Current WTFC South-Zone Race - Singles: 3

Emoki Nakajima

Emoki Nakajima (USA)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 06-Jan-85
Birthplace: Seattle, USA
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Play: Switch-Hitter
Style: All Court
Tactical: Counter Puncher
Strength: Consistency, L-R Forehand
Racquet: Wilson K Factor KBlade Tour, Prince Ozone Pro Tour



Young, Confident, All-Rounder with Precision landing shots. Hidden behind his innocent smile, the Tennis Prince of WTFC and 2007 Master League Winner, have killer ground strokes which any opponent would certainly fear playing against.

Emoki can play with either hands. Which leaves him almost no backhand weakness which majority of the players will experience. Gifted with astounding pace and precision shots, he can make any opponent scrambling from one end of the court to the other before hitting the winner.

Talented and aspiring, Emoki aim is to win the Master League and finish as the Top Rank Player. Every match he plays, he evolves better. I can only foresee him getting better over the years since he is still so young. Should always be see as the title contender as long as he play in the league.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 4
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: 2
Current WTFC East-Zone Race - Singles: 2

Aki Masa

Aki Masa (SIN)
NTRP rating: 4.0
Birthdate: 10-Oct-87
Birthplace: Singapore
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 63 kg
Play: Left Handed
Style: All Court
Tactical: Counter Puncher
Strength: Fitness, Pace
Racquet: Prince Tour Diablo Midplus




Aki is a Newcomer in the league and also a Full-Time Communications Student with SIM. Aki picked up his tennis from Emoki only a couple of months back and is already hitting some surprises in his debut season.

Aki’s greatest strength is his never say die attitude and the willing to take risk. He has great potential to evolve into one of the best players in the league and was nickname Emoki Jr. Being group together with the 'Emperor' - Sebastian and the 'Samurai' - Kenji Tahoma, Aki is really playing to his best to stay within the top half of the table.

However, I am sure that we will see more of Aki flamboyant style of play in order to compete in the so call toughest table among the 4 zones.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 17
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: N/A
Current WTFC West-Zone Race - Singles: 4

Ronny Tan

Ronny Tan (SIN)

NTRP rating: 4.5
Birthdate: 17-Sep-84
Birthplace: Singapore
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Play: Right-handed
Style: Serve & Volley
Tactical: Offensive
Strength: Quick, Accuracy
Racquet: Wilson K Factor KBlade Team

Ronny plays a solid serve and volley game with excellent ground strokes. He is extremly deadly at the net and very comfortable with overhead smashes. His well time volley and quickness to the net always kept his opponent wondering they are playing against a training wall.

Ronny is an instrumental captain for the North as well as the Dream Team and plays the game with a calm and collected approach to the game of tennis that deserved his place as a regular in the Dream Team. We hope to see more of Ronny playing more competitive inter-clubs friendly matches with the Dream Team.

Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 3
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: 4
Current WTFC North-Zone Race - Singles: 1

Natalie Young

Hiya!! I'll get the ball rolled off!
Natalie Young is 20 years old and lives in Singapore.
She still loves TV dramas yet she always weep while watching them.
She likes Ben & Jerry Ice Cream! And she will never have enough!
Her hobby is tennis!!. And she enjoys living in her on world dreaming to be the next Sharapova!

Natalie Young (GBR)
NTRP rating: 3.5
Birthdate: 23-Dec-88
Birthplace: Oxford, London
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 52 kg
Play: Right-handed
Style: Base-Liner
Tactical: Data
Strength: Endurance, Observation
Racquet: Prince O3 Speedport White Pro



Wilson-TFC League 2008
Current Ranking - Singles: 22
WTFC 2007 Ranking - Singles: N/A
Current WTFC East-Zone Race - Singles: 4