Early Rounds & Rankings

TENNIS E-News

Feb. 29, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 20
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Just had to have an issue on Feb. 29 … just because it's Feb. 29.

Nothing else of any consequence will be happening this year so we'll take the Leap now. Enjoy.

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EARLY ROUNDS

Van der Meer Open Gets Through Prelims of Prize-Money Singles and Doubles

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Early rounds were completed today and more under the lights tonight in the first of three Open-division, prize-money tournaments that are set this year at Van der Meer Tennis. Matches will continue all day Saturday, with finals set Sunday morning. Spectators are admitted free.

The men's and women's singles and doubles draws are filled with area teaching pros, top-level juniors heading soon to college teams and some college players.

Here are today's early results:

Men's Open Singles (Round of 32) -- Sutcliffe, Michael (5) def. Leal, Garrett 6-3; 7-5; Stokke, Jonathan (1) def. Shelley, Drew Def (ad); Kleine, Gustavo (2) def. Cooke, Bob; Drake, Ryan def. Odera, Joab 6-3; 7-6; Gilliland, Michael (5) def. Macdermant, Joe 6-0; 6-1; Black, Stephen def. Ayres, Dill 6-3; 6-3; Counts, Wes def. Handy, George 6-4; 7-5; Lodha, Brijesh (5) def. Kelly, Matthew 6-0; 6-0; Bahr, Alex def. bremer, Heinrich 6-2; 6-3; Zenisek, Jeff def. Sprouse, Zachary 6-4; 7-6; Gonzalez, Ricardo (4) def. Kirk, Matt 6-1; 6-1; Lin, Yu Wen def. Clement, Thomas 6-1; 6-3; Kley, Bruno (5) def. Kelly, Kyle 6-0; 6-3; Bonadona, Christophe (3) def. Yavari, Bijon 6-1; 6-1; Pavlov, Vitaly def. Manetti, Alberto 6-0; 6-2; Kelly, Chris def. Jackson, Andrew

(Round of 16) -- Gilliland, Michael (5) def. Black, Stephen 6-1; 6-1; Lodha, Brijesh (5) def. Kelly, Chris 6-2; 6-1; Kleine, Gustavo (2) def. Drake, Ryan 6-1; 6-3; Bonadona, Christophe (3) def. Counts, Wes 6-1; 6-0; Sutcliffe, Michael (5) def. Bahr, Alex 6-2; 6-3; Stokke, Jonathan (1) def. Pavlov, Vitaly 6-2; 6-2; Kley, Bruno (5) def. Lin, Yu Wen 3-6; 6-1; 7-6(4); Gonzalez, Ricardo (4) def. Zenisek, Jeff 6-2; 6-3

Men's Open Doubles (Round of 16) -- Kleine, Gustavo / Bruno, Kley (4) def. Drake, Ryan / Lin, Yu Wen 8-3; Manetti, Alberto / Bremer, Heinrich def. Bahr, Alex / Yavari, Bijon 8-3; Lodha, Brijesh / Justyn, Schelver def. Kelly, Chris / Kelly, Kyle 8-1;

Ayres, Dill / Sprouse, Zachary def. Black, Stephen / Mireles, Chris 8-6; Bonadona, Christophe / Pavlov, Vitaly (3) def. Ardeledge, Gordon / Dudley, Marshall; Gilliland, Michael / Zenisek, Jeff def. Kelly, Matthew / Kirk, Matt 8-0

Women's Open Doubles (Round Robin) -- Brito, Maria / de Guzman, Alexandra def. Drake, Kendal / Mafa, Zeynep 8-0

EARLY ROUNDS

Fripp Island Spring Clay Court Championship -- Women's 3.5 Doubles Set the Competitive Tone

FRIPP ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News via TennisLink) -- Just take a look at the Women's 3.5 Doubles Round of 16 and you can see a weekend of exciting tennis developing at the USTA-sanctioned Spring Clay Court Championship. Three of the matches went to super match tiebreaks. And the tiebreak scores were 14-12, 10-7 and 13-11.

Stay tuned for lots more than action resumes Saturday and rolls through to Sunday finals.

Here are results as posted for today:

Mixed Open Doubles -- Round Robin One -- Mills/Straut d. Delorme/Harvey 3-6; 6-4; 10-4

Men's 3.5 Singles -- Quarterfinals -- Terry Logan d. Pete Galloway 7-6(5); 6-2; Patrick Smith d. Alex Trammell 6-2; 6-3; Bill McDaniel d. James Combs 6-3; 6-4

Women's 3.0 Singles -- Round Robin One -- Katherine Cieplowski d. Elizabeth Schappell 6-3; 6-2

Men's 3.5 Doubles -- Round of 16 -- Kinghorn/Trammell d. Elkins/Norton 7-6(4); 1-6; 10-8; Brannon/Tucker d. Lohr/Mansfield 6-2; 6-2

Men's 4.0 Doubles -- Quarterfinal -- Bishop/Garrett d. Dennison/Riedmayer 6-4; 1-6; 19-17

Women's 3.0 Doubles -- Round of 16 -- Click/Hudgins d. Lohr/Hooker 6-0; 7-5

Women's 3.5 Doubles -- Round of 16 -- Errington/Smith d. Powers/White 6-0; 6-4; Chardukian/Jones d. Bishop/Day-Mitchell 7-6(10); 6-7(5); 14-12; Horton/Thompson d. Knight/Teodosio 6-3; 5-7; 10-7; Burns/Manuel d. Hyatt/Richard 3-6; 6-0; 13-11

Women's 4.0 Doubles -- Round of 16 -- Kocher/McClam d. Newman/Stallworth 6-2; 7-5; Groupe/Lurkin d. Manuel/Sullivan 6-4; 7-5

Men's 60 Singles -- Quarterfinal -- Richard Silver d. Norman Neurell 6-1; 6-1

Men's 70 Singles -- Quarterfinal -- Victor Carlsen d. Ronald Levy 6-2; 6-4

Women's 60 Singles -- Final -- Brenda Neurell d. Judith Shriner 4-6; 6-0; 10-7

Combined Mixed 6.0 Doubles -- Quarterfinals -- McDaniel/McDaniel d. Mansfield/Hooker 4-6; 6-4; 11-9; Tucker/Tucker d. Lohr/Lohr 6-1; 6-0

Combined Mixed 7.0 Doubles -- Round of 16 -- Baldwin/Dennison d. Dabney/Fodor 6-4; 6-4; Kirk/Thorn d. Lindsay/Logan 6-0; 6-2

Combined Mixed 8.0 Doubles -- Quarterfinals -- Dalton/Dalton d. Christensen/Christensen 6-2; 6-3; Josey/Silver d. Day-Mitchell/Garrett 6-2; 6-1

Child/Hunt, McKennas 1^st in Doubles

Jilly, Whitlow, Wiederhorn, Dumpel #1 in State Age-Division Singles Rankings

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News via TennisLink) -- Tom Jilly, Keith Whitlow, Bob Wiederhorn and Frits Dumpel are #1 in their respective age divisions in South Carolina rankings now available on TennisLink. Julie Child/Ann Hunt are #1 in women's doubles and Donna and Pat McKenna are tops in mixed doubles.

You can go to http://www.sctennis.com, then Adult/Senior, then Rankings to see all the state's rankings. For our limited time/space/crossed-eyes, TENNIS E-News is delivering only the cream.

Here are HHI/Bluffton/Beaufort players who are ranked in South Carolina Top 5 in singles and Top 3 in doubles:

Men's 30 Doubles -- Tim Ryan/B.L. Sweeney #3

Men's 45 Singles -- Tom Jilly #1; Bob Cooke #2; Men's 45 Doubles -- Jilly/Cooke #4

Men's 50 Singles -- Pat Child #3; Men's 50 Doubles -- Child/Keith Whitlow #2

Men's 60 Singles -- Keith Whitlow #1; Men's 60 Doubles -- Hank Iannuzzi/Bryce Young #2; Doug Luba/Dave Partington #3

Men's 70 Singles -- Bob Koenig #4

Men's 75 Singles -- Bob Wiederhorn #1; Frank Meade #3; Fred Carillo #5

Men's 80 Singles -- Lee Butler #2; Bob Brown #3

Men's 85 Singles -- Frits Dumpel #1

Women's Open Singles -- Erina Kikuchi #3

Women's 30 Doubles -- Julie Jilly/Francis Kumar #2; Marguerite Williamson/Francis Worthy #3

Women's 35 Singles -- Donna McKenna #2

Women's 40 Doubles -- Julie Child/Ann Hunt #1; Lori Bergmann/Shelley Humes #2; Donna McKenna/Jill Wilson #3

Women's 50 Singles -- Donna McKenna #3; Billie Lindsay #6

Women's 55 Singles -- Chris Littell #3; Janet Watanabe #4; Shannon Lurkin #6

Women's 60 Singles -- Janet Watanabe #2; Patricia Mainard #5; Women's 60 Doubles -- Ann Hunt/Judy Levering #1; Nanci Fitzpatrick/Carrie Randall #2

Women's 65 Singles -- Judy Levering #2; Patricia Mainard #3

Mixed 40 Doubles -- Julie Jilly/Tom Jilly #2; Nancy Christiansen/Scott Christiansen #3

Mixed 45 Doubles -- Donna McKenna/Pat McKenna #1; Pat Child/Chris Littell #3

Mixed 50 Doubles -- Pat Child/Cindy Vander Berg #2

Mixed 60 Doubles -- Roy Austin/Sharon Austin and Hilda Blazewich/Andrei Jakobovits co-ranked #3

Mixed 65 Doubles -- Arnold Bradshaw/Chris Iulo #2; Joe Fodor/Margrit Fodor #3

Southern Section (9 Southeastern states) -- Rankings involving area players in Top 15 in singles and Top 10 in doubles:

Men's 45 Singles -- Tom Jilly #12; Bob Cooke #14

Men's 50 Singles -- Pat Child #4; Men's 60 Doubles -- Child/Keith Belcher #2; Child/Keith Whitlow #6

Men's 60 Singles -- Keith Whitlow #15; Men's 60 Doubles -- Hank Iannuzzi/Bryce Young #6

Men's 75 Singles -- Fred Carillo #12; Frank Meade #14

Women's 40 Doubles -- Julie Child/Ann Hunt #8; Lori Bergmann/Shelley Humes #10

Women's 50 Doubles -- Donna McKenna/Cindy Vander Berg #2

Women's 55 Singles -- Chris Littell #7

Women's 60 Doubles -- Ann Hunt/Judy Levering #2; Nanci Fitzpatrick/Carrie Randall #5

Women's 65 Singles -- Judy Levering #9

Mixed 40 Doubles -- Tom Coulton/Routh Hollman #6

Mixed 50 Doubles -- Pat Child/Cindy Vander Berg #3

TENNIS E-News FootNote

ooooO A 1st grade school teacher gave her 26 pupils the start of well-known proverbs and asked them

( ) to come up with the rest. Here are some answers:

( ) Don't bite the hand that looks dirty.

(___) You can't teach an old dog new math.

If you lie down with dogs, you'll stink in the morning.

-- Dennis Malick