Hi all,

40 years ago in 1976, All Canadian started its operations at Cedar

Springs in Burlington. The first fully fledged Canadian Tennis Academy

was a breeding ground for future leaders in Canadian Tennis: Simon

Bartram, Tennis Director at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club, his best

friend Ari Novick, Senior Director for Tennis Development at Tennis

Canada and Marianne Groat, Junior, Open, Senior National champion

and Fed Cup player. This was a sign of the future of All Canadian.

The next 40 years have been an eventful road from All Canadian to

Ace, from Mississauga at ORC, to Hamilton, London, Sudbury,

Brantford, the national center at York in Markham, to Montreal at Nun's Island, Vaughan and

now in Toronto at Toronto Tennis City and in Burlington, at Cedar Springs once again. The

constant has been first class coaches, leading edge programs, national and provincial

champions, US scholarships worth over 15 million dollars and most of all an unbelievable

group of players, parents, coaches and supporters committed to the values of Ace/All

Canadian "Discipline, Pride, Courage".

Douglas Burke, a former All Canadian player and national icon in Jamaica is now the

president and operating partner of Ace Tennis. His support, his friendship, his commitment,

his caring, insures that All Canadian will keep on servicing junior players in the development

TORONTO

BURLINGTON

ACE TENNISACE TENNIS

BURLINGTONBURLINGTON operates out of

Cedar Springs Health, Racquet

and Sportsclub. The Cedar

Springs Club boasts state of the

art fitness facilities that

compliment its 11 indoor tennis

courts. It also offers full member

recreational services including

access to pools, a basketball

gym, and a restaurant.

Physiotherapy, medical services

and massage therapy is also

available on site.

his caring, insures that All Canadian will keep on servicing junior players in the development

of the sport of a lifetime. The tennis development landscape in Canada has changed

tremendously with Tennis Canada's direct involvement in player development and with the

creations of a handful of very good tennis Academies in the greater Toronto area. Canadian

tennis future seems to be in good hands.

For me the journey is not finished, I am trying to insure the long term well being of Ace

tennis, its staff and families as well as our players and their families. It is a great on-going

journey and I am so proud of the champions that I have been associated with over the

years. By champions I do not mean tennis champions but life champions. What a great gift

to be able to learn from such great kids and future contributors to our great country.

In closing, my advice from my experiences is; believe in your dreams if you are committed

to making them happen and have the determination to deal with all the obstacles that

present themselves while taking full responsibility. From being in Mississippi at 22, wanting

to be a lawyer, to a financial manager, I followed my dream, played pro tennis for five years,

and then created an Academy which is now turning 40. Thank you to the special people that

worked with us over the years. A special thanks to Harry Fauquier and Ken Sinclair,

Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame Members who have been mentors, friends and partners.

Thank you Doug and Ari for your friendship and partnership.

Thank you all for the great journey and the journey ahead.

Respect,

Pierre Lamarche

All Canadian Sports Management, Inc.

Dear players and parents,

We recently concluded one of our two annual ITF international juniortournaments here at ACE Tennis - Cedar Springs, and it waswonderful to see the outstanding performances, here and at the ITFevent in Veneto the week before - by two of our standouts ViktoriyaTabunshchyk and Malik Bhatnagar.

Many of the U10 players from ACE Burlington and ACE Torontorepresented us at the the U10 TDC Cup held November 12 - 13 at the Tennis Canada'sAviva Center, where the TTC team came in 3rd. For many it was very exciting as it wastheir first exposure to this type of team event.

In this edition we announce the 3rd recipient of the "Tom O'Meara Excellence Award ".This award is in honor of Tom O'Meara, the grandfather of one of our students, and anACE family member, who passed away two years ago.

The tennis academies had two visits this last month; Andre Parent - the stellar long-timefitness director at Tennis Canada's National Center in Montreal - visited ACE Burlington,and along with Derek Bennett (ACE Burlington fitness coach) conducted training sessionswith a number of our high performance players. TTC had a visit from Greenbelt TennisClub in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Toronto Tennis City will be be offering a variety of camps for players of all levels duringthe holidays, and with the new LED lighting the playing conditions on the red clay courtsare better than ever. See more info below.

ACE TENNIS TORONTOoperates at Toronto Tennis City,Toronto's most unique tennisdestination located at Yonge andDavisville. The club provides itsmembers with year roundaccess to red Italian clay courtswith state of the art LEDlighting, a beautiful club houseand a complimentary REPLAYvideo analysis system. Inaddition to being the home ofACE Toronto, the club offers firstrate adult programs andservice oriented staff.

ACE TENNISIS

CANADA'S

#1TENNIS

are better than ever. See more info below. Mike Hall - ACE Burlington High Performance Tennis Director - headed down to Floridarecently with 7 players on the annual trip to train and participate in the Eddie HerrInternational junior event in Bradenton. Good luck guys !!

I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday season!Sincerely,

Doug Burke

Burlington Tennis Director

ACE TENNIS President

The ACE Tennis U18 Canadian World Ranking Event 2 was held on November 7-12,

2016 at Cedar Springs Health, Raquet and Sportsclub in Burlington.

Viktoriya Tabunshchyk [Vita] on the right was the winner of the Girls U18 ITF event, herepictured with runner up Skyler Marie Grace Grishuk (USA). Vita beat Skyler 5-7, 6-3, 7-6.Vita is one of the most consistent, dedicated, hard working players at the ACE club inBurlington, and with the great support and value system she receives from her family, it iswonderful that she finally won her first ITF. Grishuk's talent runs in the family, her motherOksana Grishuk [pictured with Skyler above] is a previous competitive two-time Olympicchampion, four-time World champion and three-time European champion in ice dancing.Congratulations Vita!

TENNISSCHOOL

DISCIPLINEPRIDE

COURAGE

A VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM

Ace players and coaches benefitfrom the experimental AceReplay system which providesthem with the opportunity toaccess a video replay of theplayer's practice, lesson ormatch play. The Ace Replaysystem provides an opportunityfor match analysis, anunderstanding of player'sbehavior in pressure situationsand evaluation throughanalytics.

ACE Burlington's Malik Bhatnagar ended a strong two week run by becoming a Singles

Champion at the ITF event at Veneto tennis club, and Finalist and Doubles winner in the

ACE ITF event at Cedar Springs, Burlington. Above pictured as Singles Finalist and with

his Doubles Champion partner Ivan Mitric (CAN).

2016 OTA U10 TDC CUP

AVIVA CENTER - November 12th-13th

The Toronto Tennis City team came in 3rd place overall out of 13 teams! Each participating TDC (Tennis Development Center) entered a team of 4 players - twoboys and two girls. The competition was a 2 day event and consisted of preliminary roundrobin play on day 1 followed by a playoff championship on the 2nd day. Each playercompeted in one singles match and one doubles match against each team, so 3 matcheson each day. On court coaching is allowed and is an integral part of the competition tomaximize player development.

All Canadian SportsManagement Inc is a 40 yearold company which hasspecialized mostly in the field oftennis through strategicalplanning for tennisdevelopment, creation andmanagement of sport facilities,the creation and operation ofevents, research anddevelopment in the scientificarea of the sport and theoperation of Canada's top tennisdevelopmental school throughAll Canadian Academy and nowACE Tennis. All Canadian alsohas ownership in ACE REPLAY.

From left to right: ACE Toronto Team - Lucas Vo, Benjamin Mann, Cameron Samek, EvaSobol, Melina Christopoulos with coach Irfan Shamasdin.

Players from the ACE Burlington Team, left to right: Laila Kamil, Anna Tabunshchyk, coach

Walker Lamarche, Alexander Andrei and Mikail Iqbal.

Olivia Pasternak, Brooke Feth, Andrea Cabeo, Laila Kamil, Anna Tabunshchyk andBianca Ceroni with coach Walker.

TOM O'MEARA

EXCELLENCE AWARD

The 2016 - 17 recipient of thea n n u a l " T o m O'Meara Excellence

Award" - created in memory of Tom who

Jaida Borg - Receipient

Award" - created in memory of Tom whowas an integral part of the ACE family asa driver and grandfather of one of ACE'splayers - was given to Jaida Borg, playerin the National Team at ACEBurlington. This marks the third annualpresentation of this award, given to aplayer in the academy that exemplifiesthe values that Tom felt were so important- fair play, kindness, discipline and

respect.

Congratulations Jaida!

From left to right in 2013: Roy Stepanov, Raheel Manjii, Tom O'Meara and Sam Philp.

TORONTO TENNIS CITY

NEW LED LIGHTS

VISIT FROM THE NEWFOUNDLAND TEAM

A group of players from Greenbelt Tennis Club in St. John's, Newfoundland joined ourACE Toronto players at Toronto Tennis City from November 17th - 20th for training andmatch play. Our Tennis Director, Craig Mercer arranged the regrouping with GreenbeltTennis Club coach Mike Meaney and it was a great success. A big thank you tothe Newfoundland squad for making the trip and we hope to see you again soon!

U8 ROOKIE CIRCUIT

AT TORONTO TENNIS CITY

Natalie Araya

Assistant Tennis Coach,

Progressive and Competitive

Toronto Tennis City

As the fall season is coming to an end, we've had a great

turnout for our U8 ACE Rookie Circuit #3 tournament. With 8 of

our very own Little Aces and Futures program players, it was

our very own Little Aces and Futures program players, it was

great to see some amazing rallies coming from these small

but mighty competitors. Anastasia Malysheva and Morgan

Lee ended up with the most points in their boxes to make their

way in the finals. The intensity and focus coming from these

two left-handed players were impressive, but with much

perservance Anastasia came out on top winning with a score

of 15 - 10. I would like to say thank you to all the players and parents for making this a

great experience and congratulations to our finalist Morgan Lee and winner Anastasia

Malysheva!

Kaden Ng and Anastasia Malysheva

Eliana Buhagiar Morgan Lee

U8 Rookie Circuit players

HOLIDAY CAMPS

AT TORONTO TENNIS CITY

Please register online at www.torontotenniscity.com

December 27- Friday, December 30, 2016

U12-U16 Competitive TrainingTime: 11AM-1PM Cost: $199.00. No cost for ACE Toronto AcademyplayersCoaches: Craig Mercer, Irfan Shamasdin

U9-U10 Competitive TrainingTime: 1PM-4PMCost: $269.00. No cost for ACE Toronto Academy

Cost: $269.00. No cost for ACE Toronto AcademyplayersCoaches: Irfan Shamasdin, Zach Johnson

Little Aces4PM-6PMCost: $149.00Coaches: Zach Johnson

We will also be running Red Ball Camp on the week of Jan 2nd:

Progressive Tennis Camps at ACE Tennis-Toronto Tennis City

Have fun learning the sport of a lifetime.Dates: Monday, January 2 - Friday, January 6, 2017

Coached by dedicated Tennis Canada certifiedprofessionals.

Progressive 1 / Little AcesAges: 4-7Full day 9am-4pm Half Day 9am-12noon, or 1pm-4pm Format: Tennis 9am-11am, motor skills and sports 11am-12noon, 12-1pm lunch, 1-3pm Tennis, 3pm-4pm motor skills and sportsCost: $299.00 Full Day $199.00 Half Day

PLAYER ACHIEVEMENTS

Cadence Benchetrit - (ACE TTC)Veneto U9 Futures - Stars Finalist Nov.20 and ACE U9 Rookie Winner Nov.

27.

Deniz Akin (ACE TTC) was theChampion in ACE U10 Rookie Oct. 29and ACE U12 Rookie Nov. 13; pictured

as U12 Rogers Rookie Finalist Nov. 27

Katja Viberg (Ace Burlington) won theU14 Provincial Circuit tournament at

NAT.

Chris Bulgaru (ACE Burlington) ACE U10 Champion

Nov. 26 and pictured here as U9

Futures Stars Champion at Veneto.

ACE PLAYERS IN FLORIDA

Sarah Liu, tennis legend Nick Bollettieri, Alex Mikailhuk and Alvin Tudorica (TTA)

Michael Pawlowicz

Alex Mikailhuk, Nemanja Stefanovic, Alvin Tudorica (TTA), Sarah Liu, Jessica Alsola and

Rachel Krzyzak.

Andre Parent

Head National Fitness Director

ACE Burlington had a visit from Andre Parent, Head Fitness Coach atTennis Canada's National Center in Montreal. Following up on his visitseveral months back Andre continued his work with many of our highperformance players along with ACE fitness coach Derek Bennett.

Below Victoria Mboko is testing her eye hand coordination incombination with footwork and Jessica Alsola is working with themedicine ball. Katie Kubicz, Alex Mikailhuk and Rita Colyer check outAndre's moves!

ACE PLAYERS

SIGN WITH US UNIVERSITIES Continuing the long-standing tradition of ACE players winning scholarships to Americanuniversities: four leading ACE players; Malik Bhatnagar (not pictured), Roy Stepanov , InesMilosevic and Katharynz Kubicz have committed to universities in the USA for the Fall of2017. The four Robert Bateman High school seniors are receiving scholarships to theirselected institutions: Malik to Stetson university in Florida, Roy to Lamar University inTexas, Ines will attend Penn State University in Pennsylvania, and Kate will be going to theUniversity of Florida in Gainsville, Florida.

Gracia Mboko

Jakob Nielsen

Raheel Manjii

Ines Milosevic, Roy Stepanov and Katharynz Kubicz.

The four players went with the option of committing now (during the Fall period) rather thanwaiting until the spring/summer of next year - so that they could focus on their tennis andacademic development over the next nine months. We will provide an update on themagain in the Spring of 2017.

ACE COLLEGE PLAYERS

Home for Thanksgiving

It was great to have formerstalwarts and current US collegeplayers Raheel Manjii, JakobNielsen and Gracia Mboko back

with us last week during theAmerican thanksgiving break, andsee them training with some of ourtop players, including Graciatraining with her younger sister

Vicky. Gracia is in her 3rdyear at the university ofDenver.

Raheel who has beenappointed tennis team captain is in his third year at the University of Indiana , while Jakobis a freshman at George Mason University in Virginia. Another University of Denver andformer highly rated junior player Sean Huynh, has also been here training with ACE

Roger Federer has shown gritwhen odds are against him.

former highly rated junior player Sean Huynh, has also been here training with ACEplayers during his college's holiday break.

Coach's Corner

Brandon Alguire

Head Coach Provincial Program

ACE Burlington

Digging Deep: Why 'Grit' Could Be The Most

Important Sporting Attribute

Any player who has worked with me personally knows that I like to do many different drillswhich involve dealing with pressure situations. Even when doing simple technical drills I tryto attach an element of having to perform that skill under as much intense pressure aspossible.

Many people who know me personally see me as a calm, relaxed individual. But when Istep onto the tennis court as a coach I really strive to makemy players feel like they have to perform at the highestpossible level. Most of the time, players 'choke' under thesecircumstances. However, the following article on "Grit"provides a great explanation of why I choose to transformmyself into a coach who demands nothing but the best aplayer can give.

Enjoy the article and I encourage all players to read it too.

Read Article Here

FREE SAT TUTORING

The SAT is a mandatory test, in English and math, for all studentsaspiring to a scholarship at college in the USA.

In our continuing efforts to provide excellent wide-ranging services toour clients, our renowned educational advisor Helen Donohoe isoffering free weekly SAT classes following the Saturday morning

competitive program at Cedar Springs Health, Racquet and Sportsclub in Burlington.

***Helen Donohoe, M.S.Ed., is a teacher of English and French in the Hamilton/Burlingtonarea. For more information, please contact Helen directly at helen@acetennis.ca. ClickHERE for more information on SAT preparation.

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