Regentville Tennis Blog

Regentville versus SIM Varsity Team

Published on 2009-11-07 21:58:00

Regentville tennis hosted the varsity team from the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) yesterday. The weather yesterday was perfect as it has been raining for the last couple of days. We managed to play a total of 9 men's double's matches against a team of 5 players from the SIM university team. In all, it was great experience to have played against a much younger and youthful opposition.Regentville & SIM Varsity tennis team photoOn behalf of the Regentville tennis team, I would like

Fake Babolat Aero Pro Drive Tennis Racquet

Published on 2009-09-13 04:09:00

I have been getting many emails and facebook requests asking to verify if a tennis racquet that had been purchase is either genuine or fake after I wrote my initial articles on the fake Babolat Pure Drive and fake Wilson K Blade 98. All these requests had one very similar thing in common and shared a common trait - They were all purchased from either online auctions sites or unknown China based websites not linked to any authorized tennis reseller or manufacturer.I had the opportunity to get a

Write up on Fake Tennis Racquets

Published on 2009-08-10 09:21:00

I was surfing the web today and was surprised that an online tennis store based in Melbourne Australia called World of Tennis really loved my original write up on the fake Babolat Pure Drive that they actually "stole" it and repackaged the content as if it was there's! See the stolen Regentville write up on fake tennis racquet here. Now whose the one advocating piracy here? Nobody from World of Tennis had the decency to actually write me to ask for permission for the rights to use my pictures

Thailand or Malaysian Open Tennis 2009

Published on 2009-08-09 00:40:00

For the last couple of years tennis fans in South East Asia were pretty much restricted to the Thailand Open held in Bangkok. In 2005, Vietnam did try to follow suit by hosting the Vietnam tennis Open, but that didn't really pick up as they failed to really attract big name tennis players to their event. The Thailand Open had been the only premier tennis event in South East Asia that has hosted the likes of current number one Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and most re

Haig Hills (Haig Court) versus Regentville

Published on 2009-08-02 01:09:00

The team from Haig Hills (Haig Court) condo hosted Regentville tennis for the 2nd "away" leg of our inter condo tennis friendly. The last friendly tennis match held at home against the Haig Hills team ended abruptly due to rain, but today's game was held in splendid weather conditions.This was the first time most of our players had to play on a different surface besides regular hard courts, so it was a good experience for all . The courts at Haig Court condo were rubberized and well cushioned

mi Adidas Barricade V Tennis Shoes

Published on 2009-07-24 20:01:00

My second pair of mi Adidas barricade IV tennis shoes have been already worn out and I decided it was finally time to get another pair of mi Adidas custom tennis shoes. The mi Adidas Barricade IV had been already phased out, so I had to go with Adidas' latest mi Adidas Barricade V custom tennis shoes.Tsonga had recently worn a bright yellow custom mi Adidas Barricade V tennis shoes for the Australian Open aka "TSONGA 7" and the base colors looked really cool. It sort of reminded me of "Bumble

Regentville versus Haig Hills

Published on 2009-07-11 11:51:00

The Regentville tennis team kick started the 2009 campaign with an inter condo friendly tennis match against Haig Hills tennis. The team from Haig Hills comprises of of mostly Indonesian expats based here in Singapore.Regentville and Haig Hills tennis team photoWe were fortunate to squeeze in 11 matches as the weather had threatened to rain all along. A total of 11 matches were played. 8 mens doubles, 1 ladies doubles and 2 mixed doubles before rain finally stopped play with two hours remaini

Grayling Clay Court Mixed Doubles 2009

Published on 2009-04-24 20:24:00

Juan and Serene represented team Regentville in the 2009 Grayling mixed doubles tennis invitational tournament held at Singapore's only clay court venue at Alexandra park. Having only just recently transitioned to clay and HAR-TRU® it was a commendable effort on the part of both Juan and Serene to make the Silver Group semi finals on their first attempt.Photos of the 2009 Grayling mixed doubles tennis invitational here.

Regentville Tennis Birthdays Mar09

Published on 2009-03-21 23:49:00

The Regentville tennis team celebrated the birthdays of BK, Nick, Juan, Apollo, Jacques (overseas) and Jason our newest Regentville tennis team member. Despite of the thunderstorm and heavy showers that threatened to ruin our BBQ cum pot luck birthday celebration for our 6 Regentville tennis team members, the rain finally let up and we all could tuck in to the sumptuous spread of Local and Filipino cuisine.A "Wilson K Six One 90" custom birthday cake!The highlight of the evening was most defini

Wilson K Pro Staff 88 Review & Issues

Published on 2009-03-01 03:44:00

I wrote an article a while back on my experiences and findings on the Wilson K Six One 95 having quality control issues. There were a lot of talks and complaints about the inconsistencies on various Wilson tennis racquets models. They either had shoddy paintwork, differences in grip sizes, differences in overall unstrung weight and different racquet balance. My last article on Wilson’s quality control issues was written about a year and a half ago on the Wilson K Six One 95 (Asian) having s

Regentville Tennis Birthdays Feb09

Published on 2009-02-28 06:40:00

The Regentville Tennis Team celebrated the birthday parties of Sandra, Hector, Andre and myself (Nawin). As usual, we'll try to incorporate a tennis session into our birthday celebration with tennis and a half time break with a mini feast and cake cutting ceremony.I would like to personally Thank all the Regentville tennis players who were present to celebrate this joyous tennis cum "makan" session with us. Everybody had an excuse to play badly today cos we were all stuffed.I would like to tha

ACE ESPN Tennis Contest Winner

Published on 2009-02-17 08:35:00

Serene was fortunate enough to be one of the lucky winners of the ACE ESPN tennis contest where she answered a simple question which are aired on the local STAR sports channel here in Singapore.She was picked out from all the weekly contestants in South East Asia/Asia who participated in the ACE ESPN quiz on television. The prize was a goodie bag worth of tennis accessories from Yonex.Serene at the ESPN HQ Singapore collecting her prize.

ATP Fan Of The Week

Published on 2009-01-23 03:06:00

A couple of days after writing my first article about accidentally chancing on Andy Roddick in Singapore during his stop over in Singapore from Qatar to Melbourne for the 2009 Australian Open. Serene and I were pleasantly surprised that our picture taken with Andy Roddick was featured on the "ATP Fan Of The Week" section on the 23rd of January's edition of the ATP World Tour Insider Newsletter.It read:Fan Photo Of The Week: Andy Meets Couple In Singapore:"Serene and Nawin Singh of Singapore had

Andy Roddick in Singapore

Published on 2009-01-16 10:26:00

Who says famous tennis stars never visit Singapore? Well I used to think that. In one of my articles I wrote awhile back about Maria Sharapova in Singapore, I mentioned Singapore never manages to attract the top tennis players. Well I was both right and wrong about this. Right because we have not still managed to organize a major tennis event after Maria Sharapova played an exhibition tennis match here in Singapore back in 2007, but wrong to say that no major tennis star has set foot here on

Discontinued Tennis Racquets

Published on 2008-08-24 08:26:00

I was doing some research on trying to get a couple of classic Wilson Pro Staff 6.0 (95 sq inch frames) and found out that Wilson has discontinued manufacturing the Wilson Pro Staff 6.0 indefinitely! Until sometime last year we still could order them through Tennis Warehouse, but according to some posts on the Tennis Warehouse forum, Wilson has decided to totally stop production of this legendary tennis racquet.The Wilson Pro Staff 6.0 came in two different frames sizes, the famed 85 sq inch ver

Regentville Tennis featured on The New Paper

Published on 2008-07-21 11:42:00

A few of the Regentville tennis players myself included had a rare privilege to be interviewed by The New Paper (TNP) for its Sunday edition sports column written by TNP reporter Lim Say Heng dated on the 21 July 2008 entitled "Men are from Mars, and they don't like Venus".Kenneth, Beng Koon (BK), Arnelio and myself had the chance give our views on our favorite tennis players, what attributes do we like about them and who are we looking out for to win the Olympics Tennis Gold medal in August.It

Regentville Tennis Birthday Party

Published on 2008-07-20 05:10:00

The Regentville tennis team held a birthday celebration for three of our tennis players yesterday. Andy, Francis and Serene were all born on the same day - the 24th of July.Regentville tennis players enjoying great food and karaoke session.As always, our Regentville tennis team members brought lots of food and drinks “pot luck” style. We started with a candlelight BBQ session with kebabs and satays and then adjourned to the karaoke room where we had a Filipino cuisine courtesy of our Filip

Regentville versus The Bayshore

Published on 2008-05-10 21:10:00

The Regentville tennis team hosted the team from The Bayshore condo yesterday. This is the first leg of a two leg friendly tennis match. The 2nd leg will be held and hosted by The Bayshore at a later date. The Bayshore condo is situated near East Coast Park. They are not to be confused by a neighboring condo called Bayshore Park which is another place altogether. This was the 2nd time we played against another tennis team from the Eastern part of Singapore. The last friendly we had against

Tennis Elbow and Babolat Racquets

Published on 2008-05-07 05:32:00

I have been play testing so many different tennis racquet brands and models and found while others vary considerably in terms of power, consistency and weight balance, one particular racquet brand that had always been very different in terms of “feel” and shock absorption - Babolat.My first experience with the Babolat tennis racquets was back in 2005 when I bought both the legendary Babolat Pure Drive Standard and Bobolat Pure Drive Plus (these were the regular non cortex version). My origi

Regentville versus Melville Park

Published on 2008-04-26 23:30:00

The Regentville tennis team hosted the team from Melville Park condo based in Simei yesterday. This will be the first home leg for the Regentville tennis team as an away match at Melville Park will be scheduled at a later date. The weather had been fortunately with us and we had perfect sunny conditions great for tennis. The last couple of days prior to the match had been plagued with foul weather and thunderstorms especially in the afternoons and late evenings that would have definitely broug

Clay Courts in Singapore

Published on 2008-04-21 09:51:00

I finally got a chance to visit Singapore’s only public clay tennis courts located at Alexandra Park last week to catch some of the Regentville tennis players compete in the Grayling Mixed doubles invitational 2008 tournament. I had previously heard much about the coveted clay tennis courts in Singapore, but never really had a chance to actually find out where these clay courts in Singapore were located. I only got to know there were actually clay courts in Singapore about two years ago from

Fake Wilson Tennis Racquet

Published on 2008-04-08 03:46:00

About a year ago I wrote an article about a fake Babolat Pure Drive and how fake tennis racquets being passed off as genuine item. A year has passed and the counterfeit tennis racquet industry has grown even more in prominence and stature. It has now even got to the point where buyers are scrutinizing each and every aspect of the racquet especially if they intend to purchase 2nd hand or used tennis racquet from an online tennis forum, online auction site or from a racquet trader. Looking at t

Yew Mei Green versus Regentville

Published on 2008-03-30 05:35:00

Yew Mei Green condo from Yew Tee hosted the Regentville tennis team yesterday. This was the 2nd leg of the tennis friendly between the two condo tennis teams from the northern part of Singapore. The first friendly tennis match was hosted by Regentville two weeks earlier in Hougang followed by this return leg at Yew Mei Green. We played a total of 15 matches which consisted of men's doubles and ladies doubles as well as mixed doubles tennis matches.Our visting Regentville tennis players at Yew

Regentville versus Yew Mei Green

Published on 2008-03-08 20:25:00

The team from Regentville were up against the tennis Team from Yew Mei Green yesterday. The weather leading up to the friendly tennis match between the two teams had not been fantastic, but we were indeed fortunate to have fine sunny weather to start our 3rd tennis friendly for 2008 which is the first home leg between the two condos held at Regentville in Hougang. The 2nd leg away match will be held at Yew Mei Green at a later date.Regentville versus Yew Mei Green match schedule.We played a tot

Regentville versus New Tech Park

Published on 2008-02-16 21:50:00

The Regentville tennis team had its second friendly match for 2008 against the New Tech Park tennis team. This is the first leg of a two part friendly tennis match between Regentville and New Tech Park. The first leg home tie was hosted and held here at Regentville. The 2nd tie would be held sometime in April at New Tech Park the final dates have not been finalized yet and we are still coordinating with the organizers at New Tech Park to get a fix date for the 2nd leg tie.Regentville versus N