Organisation

Rutger (1965) is very talented in organising events. His skill in planning large events was acquired at the Hotel Management School in Maastricht. In 1990 he was closely associated with some big festive activities during Sail Amsterdam, the most famous international nautical event of Amsterdam. He worked on the sales department and later on the legal department of an international foodservice company. Since 1996, he has been actively involved with the Amsterdam Open, an international wheelchair tennis tournament, but he also finds time for music, theatre, cooking and travel.

At the moment his main work is performing all kinds of ultrasound scans at pregnant women in his own ultrasound practice.

He started to play tennis , when he was almost 50 years old and regrets very much he did not start much earlier.

Since about 5 years he is the president of DDV, one of the largest tennis clubs in Amsterdam and he is also member of the Board of Supervisors of the International Tennisclub  Amsterdam BV, who is running the Frans Otten Stadion.

He met Elkan and Rutger, who introduced him in the Stichting Rolstoeltennis Amsterdam and they invited him this year to become a board member of the Stichting and the organisation of the Wheelchair Tennis Masters, which he accepted with pleasure.

Marijke (1954), a Paralympics champion swimmer, collected 11 gold medals in Heidelberg and Toronto and a bronze for basketball in Seoul. Since then she has put her energy into tennis, sailing, canoeing and biking.

Marijke's extensive management experience has been gained as secretary of the Disabled Sport Foundation Amsterdam and Sport Club Antilope, she has organised two Europa Cup Finals for wheelchair tennis and she was chairman of the NEBAS-NSG, district Utrecht.