Tennis & squash tournaments during HIRLAM-ALADIN meeting 2009

Information for those who are interested.


In this web page all the information for the people interested in participating in the TETOC tennis & squash tournament will be collected.


Dear HIRLAM and ALADIN researchers,

During the EWGLAM meeting in Madrid we had a small discussion between us about sports activities that were arranged in earlier days and that they were very nice occasions to meet with the colleages working in the field of NWP in an informal manner.

Based on this discussion we have decided to establish the Tennis Expert Team Organising Committee (TETOC), which would complement the already existing Expert Teams inside SRNWP.

We felt that the forthcoming HIRLAM-ALADIN annual meeting would be an excellent occasion to have a kick-off to this new Expert Team and to revive the tradition of organizing a sports event beside the serious (?) business meetings.

To put all these words into action we will organize a small tennis tournament in a tennis hall close to Utrecht on Wednesday evening (13th of May) during the HIRLAM - ALADIN meeting. The exact details will follow later, but the tournament will probably last from 19.00 to around 22.00. The hall has 5 indoor tennis courts, so there is plenty of room for anyone interested in participating! The costs for this event will be between 10 and 15 euros per person for the tennis.

We would be happy to get "expression of interests" until the end of March in order to better estimate and organise the requirements for this endeavour. Note that we will play indoors (on felt-carpet like surface) so we are not dependent on the famously changeable weather in the Netherlands.

We are looking forward to your early answers, opinion!

Best regards

Tennis Expert Team Organisation Committee (TETOC)
Neva on behalf of ALADIN (neva.pristov(at)rzs-hm.si)
Sander on behalf of HIRLAM (tijm(at)knmi.nl)
Andras on behalf of C-SRNWP (horanyi.a(at)met.hu)

Tennis Tournament
Participantexperiencebrings own racket?
Sander Tijm25 yearsyes
Neva Pristov?? years??
Andras Horanyi?? years??
Gergo Boloni?? yearsyes
Claudia Lebon?? yearsyes
Kim Pieneman?? yearsyes
Sibbo vd Veen??? years??
Eric Bazile?? yearsyes

Squash Tournament
Participantexperiencebrings own racket?
Jose Antonio Garcia Moya25 years??
Yann Seity?? years??

The tournaments will be held in the Hoenderdaal Health Center.
How to get to the Hoenderdaal health center: use the journey planner