TENNIS E-News
Aug. 15, 2007 Vol. VI, No. 90
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC
New Rating Appeal Process Online -- See below
Super Senior Men's, Women's 3.0 & 4.0 Schedules Are Now Up on TennisLink
HHI Adult Men's 5.5s Lose in Southern Sectionals
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- "We kept it competitive but just came up short," was Captain Chris Mireles' assessment of the Hilton Head Island Adult Men's 5.5s team performance at Saturday's Southern Sectional Championship in Myrtle Beach.
The match scores bore out his take on the three-team faceoff that completed the Southern lineup for Nationals. All other divisions of the nine-state championships were played in late July in Mobile AL.
Against Greensboro NC, the HHIslanders split a pair of those infamous third-set match tiebreaks, losing 2-1. In the followup match, the eventual champions Charleston took all three courts, then defeated Greensboro 2-1 for the sectional title. Here are the individual results involving the local team:
Greensboro 2, Hilton Head Island 1
#1 Singles -- Jeff Johnston lost 6-3, 7-6
#1 Doubles -- Tom Coulton and Matt Wuller won 6-3, 5-7, 1-0
#2 Doubles -- Mike O’Regan and Mike Sutcliffe lost 4-6, 6-3, 1-0
Charleston 3, Hilton Head Island 0
#1 Singles -- Tom Coulton lost 1-2, injury retirement
#1 Doubles -- Chris Mireles and Mike Sutcliffe lost 6-1, 6-2
#2 Doubles -- Mike O’Regan and Jeff Johnston lost 6-3, 4-6, 1-0
Independent Men's League Postpones Inaugural Season Until Late Spring '08
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The fledgling Independent Men's League doesn't have enough players to fledge this season, but intends to flap its wings in a full schedule next Spring following the USTA League season.
Plans for the league were for multi-level doubles format that would be played weekly at the same site: Port Royal Racquet Club. League coordinators Tom Larkin and Werner Sicvol needed about 40 players for the competition, but didn't have that many this time around. For information contact Larkin at tlarkin@aol.com.
Juniors & Adults
1st Southern Siblings Championships Set for Next Month at Kiawah Island
KIAWAH ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The USTA Southern Section is introducing a new tournament format for junior and adult siblings and, to no great surprise, South Carolina will host the first event Sept. 14-16 on Kiawah Island. No player ratings are in effect in the tournament.
USTA-sanctioned Sibling Southern Open Clay Court Championships play will be in Boys' and Girls' 18s Doubles, Mixed 18s Doubles, Brother-Brother Open Doubles, Brother-Sister Open Doubles and Sister-Sister Open Doubles. A feed-in consolation will be played in each category. Players may enter one or two events. If you would like more information, contact Jonathan Barth at jonathan_barth@kiawahresort.com.
The Level 1 SC tournament and Southern championship can be entered online by going to http://www.sctennis.com and selecting
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New Rating Appeals Process
05/29/2007
The non-medical NTRP rating appeal process is now fully automated. Follow the instructions below to complete the process via the internet:
You may appeal your rating at any time, but if you participate in spring or mixed doubles leagues, don't expect your rating to go down in the middle of the season. This procedure will be most useful at the end of the year when the new year-end ratings are released.
-- Go to http://tennislink.usta.com
-- In the column on the right side of the TennisLink page, under the heading "League Players", click on "Find a Rating".
-- Enter your USTA # in the box and click "go". (If you are a captain appealing for one of your players, enter the USTA # of the player.)
-- A page with rating information will appear. If your rating can be appealed (not all can), a blue link that says "appeal rating" will appear at the end of the line containing your rating information. Click on that link.
-- Enter the zip code of the player in the box. Please note that the zip code is the same as the information on file in the TennisLink database, so if your information is not correct in TennisLink, you may get an error. (Just make sure all your TennisLink information is correct and everything will be fine.)
-- You'll need to select 2 buttons in this step. The first is whether you want your rating to go up or go down. The second is whether you are the player or the captain. If you are the captain, you'll need to type in your USTA #. Click submit once you have made your choices.
-- The appeal is instantly granted or denied and the result will appear on the screen. If you wish to e-mail the results to someone (say, for example that your captain has asked you to appeal your rating, you may forward the results to him or her). The e-mail contains the same information that appears on your results screen.
You may appeal your rating at any time, but if you participate in spring or mixed doubles leagues, don't expect your rating to go down in the middle of the season. This procedure will be most useful at the end of the year when the new year-end ratings are released.
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