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30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 will be played from (21st) 23rd till 28th of June 2025… “seeds of the Legends of tomorrow” story… one of the most unique u10 events in the world...
Important Notice for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 candidates
The possibility to candidate players for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 edition is Closed.
This year Smrikva Bowl is dedicated to the players born in 2015 and the coming “seeds of the Legends” gathering will be held from Saturday 21st of June till Saturday 28th of June 2025.
On 21st of September 2025, the Smrikva Bowl Ambassador’s Day, the selection process for the 31st Smrikva Bowl 2026 generation will be open.
Past Smrikva Bowl players and 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 players are eligible to present their candidacy for the 9th Smrikva Bowl Tennis Talents Family Week 2025.
Smrikva Bowl Olives Harvest Family Week (SBOHFW) 2025 story – dedicated to players and families who planted their olive trees in Smrikve (24/10-2/11/2025)
Smrikva Bowl Olives Harvest Family Week 2025 (pdf ~1.9 MB)
SBM+FHW 2025 is a holiday opportunity dedicated to past SB players – already high level ATP/WTA professionals.
Smrikva Bowl M plus Family Holiday Week (SBM+FHW) 2025 (pdf ~0.43 MB)
Smrikve Village is home to Smrikva Bowl
29th Smrikva Bowl 2024 Draws & Results, Press Release
29th Smrikva Bowl 2024 Draws and Results
29th Smrikva Bowl 2024 Press Release
News
08/04/25
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE 30th SMRIKVA BOWL 2025 CANDIDATES... The confirmation e-mails have been sent to all the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 candidates who presented complete candidacies in time...
Only the candidates that have presented complete candidacies in time and indicated correct e-mail address in their application forms should have received the confirmation e-mail letters by 8th of April 2025 of:
a) their acceptance
b) suggestion to join the waiting list
For the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 annual the application forms received exceeded by far the number of total places available envisaged for this year edition of 48 players in total (24 + 24 Draws)…
The candidacies were from six continents and over 55 countries. Total number of countries represented on Smrikva Bowl since its foundation in 1996 might reach 112 countries after this year Smrikva Bowl Ambassadors Nomination Ceremony…
The players that have not received confirmation e-mail but have provided in time all the seven requested elements in the application instructions indicated in the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 tournament presentation please inform via e-mail: miodrag_bozovic@ yahoo.it
Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikve, Istria from Smrikve, Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve, SMRIKVE LOUNGE, Villa TASTE, for your accommodation with swimming pool in Stinjan (Pula – Pola) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia.
30/03/25
The possibility to candidate players for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 edition is Closed. The candidates who presented their complete candidacies are pleased to read the following...
We were honored to receive and learn more about candidates born in 2015 from six continents and over 55+ different countries…
All the candidates who presented their candidacies completed with all the six required candidacy presentation elements will receive the confirmation e-mail and relevant information in relation to the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 edition before April 8th, 2025.
Players and families who were not in a position to complete all the seven required elements were not taken into consideration and will not receive any e-mail.
Please visit www.smrikve.com to learn more about Smrikve, Istria from Smrikve, Smrikva Bowl, one of the most important under 10 tennis tournaments in the World, and Villa Smrikve, for your accommodation with swimming pool in Stinjan (Pula – Pola) if you decide to spent your holiday in Istria, Croatia.
18/03/25
Second Important Notice for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 candidates - 18th of March
As indicated in the application instructions for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 edition we reserve the right to bring forward the deadline date if the number of quality applications received exceed the total number of players we can invite.
For the above reason since 13th of March the presentation with application instructions is not any more available.
By the date of 13th of March we received complete candidacies by far in excess of the maximum number of players we can invite…
There were players and families who completed their candidacy process by 13th of March and players and families who were in the process of completing their candidacies on 13th of March…
There were players and families who had all the seven elements prepared and submitted their candidacies after 13th of March and they will be examined mostly to access the waiting list…
Players and families who were not in a position to complete all the seven elements will not be taken into consideration for the waiting list.
Players and families who were planning to submit their candidacy with all the material prepared but did not start their candidacy process by 18th of March will not be taken into consideration for the waiting list.
Each player who presented the complete candidacy will receive by e – mail confirmation that the application has been received and reviewed…
The players who’s candidacies have been reviewed will receive confirmation as to whether or not their application have been successful no later then 8th April 2024.
13/03/25
Important Notice for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 candidates
As indicated in the application instructions for the 30th Smrikva Bowl 2025 edition we reserve the right to bring forward the deadline date if the number of quality applications received exceed the total number of players we can invite.
For the above reason the presentation with application instructions is not any more available.
11/03/25
Smrikva Bowl Mission like a Dream...
Not many years from now there will be much more Smrikva Bowl players among professional players… as of March 2025: 96 players reached TOP 200 ATP/WTA ranking… 47 players reached TOP 100 ATP/WTA ranking… 14 players reached TOP 20 ATP/WTA… 6 players reached TOP 10 ATP/WTA ranking…
Their track record includes: 46 junior GRAND SLAM titles, 5 Grand Slam title and 122 professional ATP/WTA titles…
There will be much more Smrikva Bowl players that thanks to their racket skills will got the scholarship to play in the prestige Universities all around the World… so far 361+ players got scholarship to study play tennis in the US…
… and there will be much more who will graduate all around the World…
Smrikva Bowl dream is that may they all stand together for something “MORE THAN TENNIS”…
“If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.”
Smrikva Bowl mission is to inspire, develop and spread cosmopolitan values. Love, friendship and empathy are cosmopolitan values per excellence for people and humanity…
CULTURE, CHILDREN, SPORT, MUSIC and NATURE are part of the Smrikva Bowl idea of the cosmopolitan world. It is a matter of civilization …
A wise wind, product of imagination, once whispered… “Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.” (M.Y.)… and fairy tales seems to help that beauty…
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” (A.E.)…
Usually in tennis game it does not matter what goes wrong but your reaction to it…
Fear and anger are for the brain the same as cramps for the muscles… and as Yoda noted “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”… like in tennis, so similar seems to be life…
There are different ways to look at sport. There are different ways to look at music, culture, love and also to children.
The vision of sport preferred in Smrikve can be described and extended to: culture, music and children using the following Nelson Mandela – Madiba’s words:
“Sport has the power to change the world, the power to inspire and the power to unite people in a way little else does – it is an instrument of peace. It speaks to youth in a language they understand.”
For the following song I would say “Music and children have the power to change the world, the power to inspire and the power to unite people in a way little else can – there are both instruments of peace.” :)
… a wise men living in China 2500 years ago once observed… “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” … and to set your heart right you need good characters… those who wish to contribute to the greater public good had to begin by working on themselves…
…only then they will see progress radiate out from their personal circles to society at large…
The same Grandmother Willow tried to pass to John Smith in Pocahontas…
Grandmother Willow: Now then, there’s something I want to show you. Look.
[dips her vine in the water in which glowing ripples begin to form]
Pocahontas: The ripples.
John Smith: What about them?
Grandmother Willow: So small at first, then look how they grow. But someone has to start them…
Smrikve, April 2009
FEW WORDS ABOUT L…
The strongest force among human beings is named “Love”. Love can be very powerful but can also be very painful force.
THE LITTLE PRINCE…by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry… is a very special book that every person at different age read differently.
It is a book that last over time and was likely the last love gift Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made to his wife Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
Over time this book was translated in many different languages thus become a love gift for many generations around the world.
It is a children’s book written for the older… I like many parts of it… especially the description that Antoine make of the adult people… the description of the moment when the rose was born… the importance of the right orders on the King’s planet… “you never know” statement… the meeting with the wise fox… the smiling stars and many other parts…
Only best friends, when they trust each other, do share their deep knowledge… and once The Little Prince and the fox created such a special relationship the fox shared a secret with him…
“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry believed that: Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.… “Ljubav ne zahtjeva da dvoje ljudi gledaju jedno u drugo, već da zajedno gledaju u istom pravcu”.
Smrikve, March 2023
LOVE & “BE WATER MY FRIEND”…
Shannon Lee did her best to pass part of the teachings and legacy of her father… the Legendary Bruce Lee..
He was much more than a Kung Fu Master… and I am pleased to share just few lines that impressed me the most in Shannon’s book about Bruce Lee view on possible relationships among people and differences… on pages 218-220 Shanon writes:
„… Many people who protest against certain groups of people suddenly change their tune when they discover personal connection with someone who may be different from them, or when they come to know and love someone who is different from them…“
„… Traditions and institutions can have their benefits, but they do and always will have their limitations, too. An organization or system of belief that has its rules and traditions will always not include someone. Someone will be pushed outside of the boundaries and made „other“.“….
Bruce Lee’s Master, Shifu, coach or teacher was Yip Man… the Legendary martial arts figure… he is the one who passed the wing chun teachings to Bruce Lee… but there is an important story I was not familiar with that I discovered in his daughter’s book related with his wing chun lessons that for sure had impact on Bruce Lee legacy…
Here is what Shannon writes: “When my father was a teenager at Yip Man’s wing chun gung fu school, he was kicked out. Not for bad behavior, but for not being 100 percent Chinese. It was found out that my father’s mother was half European , making my father only three-quarters Chinese. The tradition of the time made it such that he could not be considered fully Chinese and thereby he was not allowed to learn Chinese gung fu – and so an uproar ensued. Yip Man did not want to expel my father. In fact, my father was one of his best students, but he could not keep the peace within his school without throwing my father out because the other students threatened to quit if he stayed. This was his livelihood, so Yip Man compiled with tradition.
In a work-around, Yip Man continued to train my father in private and have one of his most senior students, Wong Shun Leung, train him as well. But he could not keep him in class. Maybe it was partly this experience that cemented in my father his later policy of taking anyone to his school who had a sincere desire to learn, regardless of their race, gender, or background. Maybe it was being a kid growing up in Japanese- occupied Hong Kong during World War II. Maybe it was his commitment to his Taoist philosophical understandings. But the „human first“ policy is one I feel we can and really need to all adopt as our barrier to entry for humanity.
My mother always said about my father that he looked straight across at people. Meaning, he looked them in the eye rather than at the embellishments of their outside packaging. His upbringing was such that there were many factors that contributed to this attitude. First of all, he was born in America but raised in Hong Kong. His mother was part European and so he was too. He lived in a primarily Chinese city, but it was governed by the British. He worked in the acting industry as a child, so he spent time around many adults and people with a more creatively open disposition. He experienced racism and prejudice often throughout his life – for being too Chinese in Hollywood and for being too Western in Hong Kong. He often did not have a tribe to call his own other than his nuclear family, and so he had to make the conscious choice of being exclusive or inclusive. And being inclusive gave him access to many more people, ideas, experiences, friendships, and possibilities. It made his world bigger and more interesting.“
… and after expressing her thoughts Shannon Lee in her book share her father’s original words… and on the above subject Bruce Lee wrote the following: „Many people are still bounded by tradition, when the elder generations say „no“ to something, then these people will strongly disapprove of it as well. If the elders say that something is wrong, then they also will believe that it is wrong. They seldom use their mind to find out the truth and seldom express sincerely their real feeling. The simply truth is that these opinions on such things as racism are traditions, which are nothing more than a „formula“ laid down by these elder people’s experiences. As we progress and time changes, it is necessary to reform this formula. I, Bruce Lee, am a man who never follows the formulas of these fear-mongers. So no matter if your color is black or white, red or blue. I can still make friends with you without any barrier. In saying that „everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,“ you may think that I am idealistic. But if anyone still believes in things like racial differences, I think they are too narrow. Perhaps they still do not understand love.“
It is an inspiring book about teachings of a self made man who strongly believed in hard work in order to develop his full potential… and the above is just a small part of Bruce Lee philosophy… I invite each SB seed to try to understand the description of the meaning “be water my friend” Shannon Lee share in her book… it is a hidden key to unlock the full potential of the mental part for a tennis player who dream to reach the peak of ATP/WTA mountain…
