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Mike Emenako, Mark Maslowski
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George Pahiakos
ERSA Italy Manager - Marco Rossani
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Ricardo Dipold
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Richard Parnell
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As you have seen, our cover has
changed this issue. We are also
looking for a new name for the
Stringers Digest for 2017-18 Winter. We are running a contest
for all the readers and the best name will win a new tennis
racket. Please send in your new name to me at my e-mail ad-
dress: [email protected]
The 2017 Symposium was a great success and the 2018 is be-
ing planned for Milano, Italy the week after Easter in April. We
will announce this as soon as we confirm the venue. We are
expecting over 100 people so please sign up early as we will
have to set a limit. We are planning to do small hands-onwork-
shops and will divide the groups up so everyone will be able to
do each workshop. Milano is one of my favorite cities for eating
out and shopping, so I am already getting excited about going.
Many of our members are busy stringing around Europe now
at Madrid, Rome, Roland Garros and many other tournaments.
With all the television specials on the stringing rooms, you can
see many of our top stringers in action. Send me any pictures
of the stringing rooms with ERSA Pro Tour Stringers and we
will put them online. This helps build up our reputation so more
stringers can get jobs at tournaments.
I was not able to attend the Tennis Europe AGM due to a virus
infection the day before leaving. There were many new items
discussed including the plans for several changes to Davis Cup
and Fed Cup to make them more attractive, especially to the
top players so they are interested in playing each year.
We hope to have the electronic
magazine translated into Chi-
nese every issue in the near
future. The market is not big
enough for most other languag-
es but with over 1 billion people
speaking Mandarin Chinese,
this should be successful with
ERSA Taiwan and ERSA China
now in position.
Best regards
Mark Maslowski