Team Effort and Sense of Belonging

Dear All,

Although I was not there at the practice, I realized that team effort was paying off slowly. Actually both Charles and I deliberately drove past Wylie Road at around 5:30 pm yesterday to check out on you guys in the first team practice, but thought that you already left instead of being put through the physical training by your coaches.

We now have Ernest and Edmond helping out with the tennis coaching. Both of them come back to help out WYK because of their senses of belonging to WYK. For Ernest and Edmond, it must be quite similar to the jobs taken on by Kenny Dalgleish to coach Liverpool and Joahn Cryuff coaching Barcelona and Ajax in football. We hope that they will help the School Team learn about the true spiritis of the game and develop a passion in tennis.

It is also great fun to be involved in a team sport. Although some of you will end up as qualified tennis coaches like Ernest and Edmond, some of you Super-A players like Ernest and Charles, some of you school champions and tennis team captains likes William, Ambrose, Joseph and Simon, some of you may be just club players like Kane, Roger, Alvin and me, some of you just enjoy a good game of tennis and a beer like Tony Ko. All of you will end up making lifelong friends and enjoy the discipline and social network from the great game of tennis. The comradeship and friendship will last longer than your tennis playing career. I have only had a handful of jobs in my life, but all of them were partly or wholly due to my outgoing personality of playing tennis to a good club level. It is a tremendous asset.

Hong Kong men has the longest average life expectancy of 79.2 years in the world. Tennis could also keep you healthy and relieve you of any stress. Whatever happens in the next few months, enjoy the process of fighting for that promotion spot in Division I, you will have a great time and enjoy the team effort and sense of belonging to WYK.

Once Roger and Wesley finished with the tennis uniform project, it will be a magic feeling putting that school shirt on and representing WYK. In fact, the Old Boys look forward to putting one of those shirts on and played against other clubs. It will be a corporate identity and great team effort

Have fun