Southern Talks to You About Year-end Ratings and Appeals -- see attachment
TENNIS E-News
Dec. 19, 2007 Vol. VI, No. 136
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC
Captains, Start Your Engines
The Numbers Are Out; Teams Ready To Enter Players in TennisLink
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Holidays. Holidaze. Time to wake up and smell the TennisLink and get your name into your team roster for the USTA League spring season.
Before getting to the directions for putting together the kid and adult Christmas toys, you have this directions test: First, get your team number from your captain and have your credit card at the ready. Then go to http://www.sctennis.com and click on TennisLink. From there, select "Register for a team" at the right of your screen. Then follow directions. For the computer challenged, just get your captain to do it.
As a kindness to your team captain, register right now … before the holidays … you'll have plenty of time later to give him/her palpitations.
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NEW in '08: Captains Could Get Disqualified for Lowballing Players' Self-Ratings
"A player who inappropriately self-rates, and captains and others who condone inappropriate self-rating, may be subject to possible sanctions, including disqualification and suspension."
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The tweaking of USTA League rules is an ongoing project from local to national level. One of the most controversial aspects of the league program has been the evolution of regulations that have lead to the current self-rating format. Bite is being added to the tweak.
"Players who enter the USTA League Tennis program by inappropriately self-rating at an NTRP level lower than their actual skill level are considered to have violated the standards of good conduct, fair play and good sportsmanship," the '08 South Carolina state rules read. "These players may be subject to a Self-Rate Grievance."
The self-rate grievances include, among other points:
Players with a valid computer rating are not subject to Self-Rate Grievances.
Any league captain, coordinator or member of a championship committee may file a self-rate grievance.
A player who inappropriately self-rates, and captains and others who condone inappropriate self-rating, may be subject to possible sanctions, including disqualification and suspension.
In local league competition – self-rate grievances shall be filed in writing with the local/area/district league coordinator or designee having jurisdiction. Self-rate grievances shall be handled by the self-rated players’ Section League Grievance Committee.
TENNIS E-News will continue with other details for the '08 season in future issues. If you want the complete SC State League Rules, email your request to banana@hargray.com.
For Southern Tennis Association comments on the year-end ratings situation, see the attachment to this issue. Reasoning behind ratings, appeals, explanation of the rating point designations and such are included.
Presentation at Annual Banquet
Nominations Sought for TAHHI's Smith, Melville-Reid, Stitt Awards
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Nominations now are being accepted for the three annual awards given by the Tennis Association of Hilton Head Island that will be announced at the TAHHI annual meeting and dinner-dance Feb. 6.
The Stan Smith Junior Sportsmanship Award for boys, the Kerry Melville-Reid Junior Sportsmanship Award for girls and the Dick Stitt "Volunteer" Award will be presented at the banquet.
Liz Purcell, TAHHI Grants and Awards Committee chair, directs you to the TAHHI website (http://www.tahhi.org) and to click on "Grants and Awards" and then "Criteria and Nomination" for information and forms. The applications and letters of reference should be sent to her at 2 Woodbine Place #60, Hilton Head Is. SC 29928. Deadline for nominations is Jan. 22.
League Season Nearing Close
Team Tennis District Championships Will Be Held on HHI Jan. 12, 13
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News via The Chaplin Chatter) -- The USA Adult Team Tennis League will be finish up its regular season matches Jan. 5, then jump the following weekend into the South Carolina District Championships that will include all eight teams, all from the HHI league.
The single-elimination team tournament Jan. 12 and 13 will be played with the same format as the regular season matches. The seeding for the tournament will be based on the final team standings from the seven-match season. Team #1 will play #8, #2 will play #7, #3 will play #6, and #4 will play #5. Winners of the first round will advance to the semi-finals Saturday afternoon. The final will be Sunday at Chaplin Public Tennis Center, proceeded by a players party at noon open to all league participants (127 total) and anyone else wishing to attend. Food and refreshments will be provided and a Sunday Round Robin Social will follow the Championship match.
Presidents 2x in '08
South Carolina a Power Base in National USTA Politics
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The USTA South Carolina power base in section and national tennis was pretty evident in the Annual Meeting Weekend at The Westin Resort. If things hold to form, two attendees will ascend to top offices next year: Rex Maynard of Belton to become president of the nine-state Southern Tennis Association and Lucy Garvin of Greenville to become USTA national president.
Garvin was USTA SC president in 1985 and '86 and will become the second woman to hold the top USTA office. In the Saturday night banquet crowd was the first woman to serve as national president: Judy Levering of Hilton Head Island, who received the SC Adult Player of the Year Award.
Maynard was SC president in 1984 and '85 and will assume the Southern presidency next month, reigning over Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, as well as South Carolina.
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Teams Looking for Players for 2008 Spring Season
-- 3.0 Women's Adult. Wexford. Contact Mary Navis at marynavis@aol.com or 785-1916.
-- 3.0 Women's Senior. Wexford. Contact Betty Melkon at 298-0688 or Patrick Mason at 686-8816.
-- 3.0 Women's Senior. Palmetto Dunes. NEW 3.0 team senior team and maybe combo as well. Contact Steffi Cahn 682 - 4056 or e-mail stefficahn@hargray.com
-- 3.0 Women's Senior. SCYacht Club looking for players. Call or email gwenludvigsen@yahoo.com 342-6297.
-- 3.5 Women's Adult. Palmetto Dunes. Saturday play only. Contact Cindy Knight at teamtennis1@yahoo.com.
-- 3.5 Women's Adult. Singles players for Colleton River. Contact Pat Rustad (ner2pr@hargray.com).
-- 3.5 Women's Adult - Singles players. Wexford. Contact Call Andi Purple at 785-5867.
-- 3.5 Men's Senior. Spring Lake Mis-Hits. Contact Tom Larkin at tlarkin@aol.com or call 689-3685
-- 3.5 Men's Adult - Wexford. Contact Joe White (joscow@roadrunner.com)
-- 4.0 Women's Adult. New team at Long Cove. Contact Laura Bracken laurahbracken@hotmail.com or 341-5663
-- 4.0 Men's Adult in Bluffton. Contact Tim Austin at (vegas@hargray.com).
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How To Find Ratings -- Individual, Team, Everyone's -- Start with http://www.sctennis.com and, at left on the Home Page, select TennisLink, then select Leagues, then (on the right) scroll down to Find a Rating. You can key in an individual name or scroll to the Drilldown Search which will get you to a series of dropdown windows to select Championship Year (2007), Section (Southern), District (South Carolina) and Area (SC-Hilton Head Island). From there, select whether you want all players, only Women's 3.5s, etc. The "Ratings Appeals" tab is on the sctennis.com.
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MEANWHILE:
4.0 Senior Men's Interclub
Results 12/18/07
Port Royal 3, Wexford 0.
Sun City Sun Strokes 3, Sun City Net Gnats 0
Indigo Run 2, Long Cove 1
2nd Half Standings Thru 12/18/07
Sun City Sun Strokes 1 0
Port Royal 1 0
Indigo Run 1 0
Long Cove 0 1
Sun City Net Gnats 0 1
Wexford 0 1
3.5 Senior Men's Interclub
Results 12/12.07
Indigo Run 3, Sun City Critical Hits 0
Port Royal 2, Dataw 1
South Beach 3, Sun City Aces 0
Spring Lake Mis-Hits 2, Sun City Spin Doctors 1
Sun City Nationals 2, SCYC 1
Wexford 3, Sun City Funatics 0
Sea Pines 3, Moss Creek 0
Long Cove 3, Belfair 0
Spring Lake Lakers 2, CCHH 1
Flight 'A' Standings Matches Courts
Club
Indigo Run 4 0 10 2
Spring Lake Lakers 4 0 9 3
Sea Pines 3 1 9 3
South Beach 2 2 6 6
CCHH 1 3 5 7
Moss Creek 1 3 4 8
Sun City Aces 1 3 4 8
Sun City Critical Hits 0 4 1 11
Flight 'B' Standings Matches Courts
Club
Spring Lake Mis-Hits 4 1 12 3
Long Cove 4 1 10 5
Sun City Nationals 4 1 9 6
Dataw 3 2 11 4
SCYC 3 2 9 6
Port Royal 3 2 9 6
Sun City Spin Doctors 2 3 6 9
Wexford 2 3 6 9
Belfair
Sun City Funatics 0 5 1 14
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