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RACQUETTECH EUROPE
European Racquet Stringers Association
ERSA Australia
Anthony Aley - Noel Dodds
ERSA Benelux
Timo van Driel, Rob Maessen
ERSA Czech Republic & Slovakia
Vaclav Smat
ERSA Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Mike Emenako, Mark Maslowski
ERSA Greece Manager
George Pahiakos
ERSA Italy Manager - Marco Rossani
ERSA Ireland - Roger Henry
ERSA Korea - Taikki Lee
ERSA Latin America
Ricardo Dipold
ERSA Serbia - Dr. Alexander Ducic
ERSA Spain - France
Richard Parnell
ERSA Taiwan - Bernie Chen
ERSA UK
Paul Skipp, Huw Phillips, Dr. Jamie Pethick
ERSA UKAINE - Sergey Konovolenko
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TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS
Rod Cross - Australia - Physics
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European Racquet Stringers Association
Lenaustr. 38 40470 Düsseldorf
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Phone / Fax +49(0)211-68814151
www.ersa-stringers.com
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We have had a busy month setting
up the 2017 AGM & Symposium.
With a total of 60 people attending over the four days and
over 40 each of the days.
A lot of changes were voted on at the AGM the first day of the
Symposium.
1. We decided to launch ERSA Chiina and ERSA North
America this month. Plans are now being drawn up.
2. We will change the name of the Magazine in the next
printed issue, along with the Stringers Digest next winter.
This, along with the certification names we have already
changed was done to take any confusion out of our
organzation and names and that of other stringing
organizations.
3. The website is almost finished with it being totally
compatable with all mobile phones and tablets. We are just
waiting on the Online Digest to be set up correctly. There is
already a translator built into the site which can translate the
text into any language. We realize these are not perfect, but
will enable everyone to navigate around the site.
4. Nick Down and Mark Goodman have made the certification
in badminton and squash parallel to that of tennis with the
same levels.
The next Symposium will be in Milano, Italy and we are ex-
pecting 100 people because of the interest of the Italian
shops and stringers. We have hired someone to
professionally organize everything, from meeting rooms,
courts, hotel rooms, extra activities.
We are also hiring an extra
person here to mange the
ERSA Office.
Last, thanks to Huw Phillips
for offering to take over the
Forum, and Social Media sites
of the ERSA. This will be a
great help to us. Please send
Huw any news you have that
is interesting for our members.
Have a great summer season!
Mark Maslowski