Spring Break Tennis Begins

Deadline Tonight for Fripp Island Spring Championships -- Story below

TENNIS E-News

Feb. 23, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 18
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

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Sunday is deadline for adding players to USTA League Spring Season Rosters
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"Wearing o' the Green" in HHI Bu$ine$$ Pockets

Spring Break Tennis Begins Sunday with More Than 3,000 Intercollegiate Matches on Tap

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- It's Capital (Ohio) vs. St. John Fisher (NY) and Mercyhurst (PA) vs. York (PA) at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at HHI Beach & Tennis Resort … and Spring Break Tennis 2008 is under way. Figure 4,000 individual intercollegiate matches happening through March 29. Is that enough tennis-watching for you? Oh, and it's free to spectators.

(Week One's college teams and the schedule are an attachment to this issue.)

Ho Hum. So what else is new? Hosting some 225 college tennis teams on Hilton Head Island during March has been going on since 1986, bringing thousands of college players and millions of college dollar$ to the Island economy. SBT owner/operator Ray Yost is wearing a couple of hats, resuming coaching duties at Mercyhurst College in Erie PA as well as engineering his sixth year of the college event.

College teams come when their schools have Spring Break and Week One sees relatively few teams. However, with each team match including six singles and three doubles, this coming week will have 189 individual matches played, plus a couple more that might get arranged during the week. (Check The Island Packet Sports Page 2 for daily schedule and results.)

Week Two, beginning Mar. 2, will accelerate action with more than 900 individual matches already on tap. Week Three, starting Mar. 9, will have more than 1,000 matches, getting ready to roll into the busiest Week Four that begins Mar. 16. Figure about 1,500 matches that week, before things wind up during Easter (Mar. 23) Week when 500 or so will be played.

USTA-Sanctioned

Fripp Island Spring Championships Deadline Tonight; Play Next Weekend

FRIPP ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- It's Deadline Day for the USTA-sanctioned Spring Clay Court Championship that will be played next weekend at Fripp Island Racquet Club. Entry closes at 6 p.m. for the tournament that includes men's and women's singles and doubles in age and rated divisions.

Go to http://www.sctennis.com and select TennisLink and then Tournaments and use ID #704132008.

Entry categories are men's and women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles in age divisions of open, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80; rated divisions singles and doubles in 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0; combo mixed in 6.0, 7.0, 8.0.

Play will begin Friday the 29^th and continue through the weekend.

TAHHI Opens Registration for Spring Social Next Month at Palmetto Dunes

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The postcards are out and Social Chair Pat Leinberger is ready for reservations for the Tennis Association of Hilton Head Island's first-of-the-year social -- The Spring on Saturday, Mar. 29 at Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center.

The event, free and open only to TAHHI members, includes mixed doubles rounds from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Go to http://www.tahhi.org to register, making sure to include your time preference and rating. Questions? Call Pat at 705-6014.

Future TAHHI events are the Wimbledon Social June 28; U.S. Open Social Aug. 31 and TAHHI Championships in November. Registration deadline for the Spring Social is Mar. 24.

Standings in USTA League Senior Divisions

Here are the Senior standings as they appeared on TennisLink late Friday:

Senior # teams

2.5M -- 6 teams -- Country Club of HH Court Jesters lead at 3-0

2.5W -- 3 teams -- Sun City Rally Girls lead at 3-0

3.0M -- 22 teams -- Sea Pines CC Cardinals lead at 4-0 in Flight I; Country Club of HH Hustlers lead at 3-0 in Flight II

3.0W -- 19 teams -- Dataw Darlins lead at 3-0 in Flight I; Sea Pines CC Meem's Team leads at 3-0 in Flight II

3.5M -- 19 teams -- Indigo Run Gold Bear Claws, Sun City Spin Doctors tied at 3-0 in Flight I; Palmetto Dunes Wannabees, Sea Pines CC Cardinals, Sun City Nationals tied at 3-0 in Flight II

3.5W -- 24 teams -- Port Royal Glory Girls, Palmetto Dunes PDQ, SC Yacht Nauti-Gals tied at 5-0 in Flight I; Spring Lake Roaring Rackets lead at 5-0 in Flight II

4.0M -- 6 teams -- Port Royal leads at 3-0

4.0W -- 6 teams -- Sun City Sunsationals lead at 4-0

4.5M -- 2 teams -- TBA

TENNIS E-News FootNote

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( ) Tiebreaker, tiebreaker … what do you do?

( ) Serve 1 point from the deuce court

(___) ...first turn's kind of short,

Then it's Ad/deuce, Ad/deuce

... together like glue,

Need to play to 7,

and win by 2.

-- Contributed by Denise Agee, director of tennis, South Carolina Yacht Club

-- Dennis Malick