In our next issue: Grider in 'Cinderella & the Seven Dwarfs' -- He's one of the latter.
Also: A New Open Prize-Money Tournament for HHIsland
TENNIS E-News
Dec. 22, 2007 Vol. VI, No. 137
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC
Shopping for Tennis Stuff: 20%-30% Off Everything at Several HHI Stores
(Story Below)
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Outback Champions Tour
Sampras, McEnroe, Courier on HHI? Well, If Fledgling Effort Succeeds…
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- A group of local tennis enthusiasts are exploring the possibility of bringing an Outback Champions Tour event to Hilton Head Island. Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Pat Cash, Todd Martin, Mats Wilander, among others, are currently on the tour.
Islanders may remember the late '90s fun and great tennis of the "Jimmy Connors Tour" -- not its official name but a Connors' show nonetheless that included Borg, Clerc, Kriek, Gomez, etc. -- that played a couple years at Sea Pines Racquet Club. The current tour features players from the ATP tour who, among other things, are 30 or older, have reached a Grand Slam final or been ranked in the Top 5 in the world. Each tour stop features eight players divided into two groups of four in a round-robin format in which group winners advance to the finals.
Pat Child, past president of the Tennis Association of HHI and one of those initiating the Outback Tour effort, emailed local pros and tennis activists: "While we are in the early stages of this process, we have, to this point, gotten the blessing of Sea Pines to conduct the event at their center court facility, and we have been in contact with the group that manages the tour, Inside Out Sports, and they have expressed a desire to add Hilton Head (Island) as a stop on the tour. Realistically we will be looking at holding our first event in 2009."
Child cited the crux of the effort: funding.
"An event of this size cannot be held without a lot of money," he said, adding: "We need to raise sponsor dollars. At this point, we are really looking for a title sponsor and a presenting sponsor. Of course, lower sponsor levels will be needed as well. The title sponsor will need to dedicate from $350,000 to $500,000 and the presenting sponsor will need to contribute around $200,000 to $250,000 to the effort … Overall, we have estimated that it will cost about $1 million to conduct the event."
The intent of the group is to break even financially, Child said, "however, should any profit be made, we would offer those dollars back out to the local tennis community in the form of grants. I want to stress to you that this is not designed to be a way for members of this group to make money."
Anyone having potential sponsor contacts -- local or beyond -- may reach Child at 290-2760.
Chorus of Local Shops:
30% Off … 30% Off … 30% Off … Oh, Come Ye and Get 30% Off
HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Okay, so that would make a lousy Christmas carol -- unless it's retail clerk Carol singing from behind the counter of one of Hilton Head Island tennis shops. The point is that the HHI tennis retailers are adding deals for the holiday crunch time, and 30% off seems to be the chorus line.
"All merchandise is 30% off," says Sportline's PJ Scearce. "Everything (except balls) -- rackets, clothes, shoes, accessories 30% off."
The holiday sale at Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center runs through Jan. 1. "There is (at least) 20% off everything," PD's John Kerr says, "and 30% off all Nike and an additional 10% off all sale merchandise."
"Still 20% off all bags -- big selection -- except the two Federer patent leather bags," says Sea Pines Racquet Club's Eric Wammock, referring to a bag sale that began a couple weeks ago.
"30% and more," says Tanda Bianco of several wall displays and racks of clothing and accessories at Port Royal Racquet Club.
Holiday specials are also available at Players World of Sports, Van der Meer Shipyard and Van der Meer Tennis Center.
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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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3.0 Senior Men's Interclub
TEAM
Palmetto Dunes Net Cords 6 0 1
Shipyard Wildcats 5 1 5
Sun City Challengers 5 1 6
Belfair Bashers
Sun City Strokers 3 3 8
Sea Pines Sand Gnats 3 3 10
Callawassie Island 3 3 11
Wexford Hitters
Sun City Lob Artists 2 4 14
South Beach Curmudgon 1 5 12
Indigo Run Mavericks 1 5 12
Moss Creek Tornadoes 1 5 13
FLIGHT "B"
TEAM
Sun City Dirt Ballers 6 0 2
Long Cove Runners 5 1 7
Spring Lake Lakers 4 2 7
Moss Creek Hurricanes 4 2 7
Sea Pines Cardinals 4 2 8
Sun City Slickers 3 3 8
CC of HH Hustlers * 2 3 7
Shipyard Rockets 2 4 11
Hampton Hall Hawks 2 4 11
Sun City Spoilers 2 4 12
Port Royal Beach Bums 1 5 15
CC of HH Wildmen * 0 5 13
*Score not reported
3.5 Senior Men's Interclub
Results 12/19/07
Wexford 2, Sun City Nationals 1
Indigo Run 3, South Beach 0
Sea Pines 2, Spring Lake Lakers 1
Sun City Spin Doctors 2, SCYC 1
Port Royal 3, Long Cove 0
Sun City Aces 3, Moss Creek 0
Belfair 3, Sun City Funatics 0
Dataw 2, Spring Lake Mis-Hits 1
CCHH 3, Sun City Critical Hits 0
Standings as of 12/19/07
Flight A Matches Courts
Club won lost won lost
Indigo Run 5 0 13 2
Sea Pines 4 1 11 4
Spring Lake Lakers 4 1 10 5
CCHH 2 3 8 7
Sun City Aces 2 3 7 8
South Beach 2 3 6 9
Moss Creek 1 4 4 11
Sun City Critical Hits 0 5 1 14
Flight B Matches Courts
Club
Spring Lake Mis-Hits 4 2 13 5
Dataw 4 2 13 5
Port Royal 4 2 12 6
Long Cove 4 2 10 8
Sun City Nationals 4 2 10 8
SCYC 3 3 10 8
Sun City Spin Doctors 3 3 8 10
Wexford 3 3 8 10
Belfair 1 5 5 13
Sun City Funatics 0 6 1 17
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