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In case you wondered about some irregular Tennis E-News “deliveries” over the weekend, a brief accounting of bounced emails appears below. If you want either the Saturday or Sunday issues resent, please reply to this email.

Luck of the Irish results were in the Sunday issue only.

TENNIS E-News

Mar. 14, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 26
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Gentleman's/Lady's Decision: In a tournament, when a semifinalist(s) knows he/she will be unable to make it for the final round, especially for personal reasons like travel, doc appt., golf game, etc., an appropriate action to take is: Retire at match point. That is, you are winning 6-4, 5-2 (40-love) and you walk to the net and tell your opponent you are retiring. Score: 4-6, 2-5 ret. Actually the same can be applied at any round, but is especially meaningful in the semifinals.

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Southern Combo

Originality … We Like It; Cola Women Create Some Tennis "Countries" for Show

The 6.5 Combo Doubles State Champions from South Carolina were the originality winners at the Southern Sectionals in Baton Rouge LA. Seven gals from the Columbia Tennis League became the Baton Rouge Tennis Queens at the event's costume party. In costume, the SC players shown in a photo attached to this issue. We found all this on http://www.southerntennis.com. Check out their party names:

In the photo in attachment (Left to right)

Miz. 10-POINT-TIELand (Mary Ann Killen),

Miz. SERVEia (Marlene Neal),

Miz. SLICEland (Leigh Matthews),

Miz. LOBeria (Robin Simpson),

Miz Ad-INdia (Cheryl Chandler),

Miz CzechosLOVEakia (Captain, Molly Harner),

Miz TENNISuela (Nan Smith)

They won the prize for best costume, but, alas, lost on court to the eventual champion – Louisiana)

USTA LEAGUE STANDINGS

Here is the rundown of Adult League teams in TennisLink as of the Thursday (3/13):

Adult # teams

2.5M -- 1 team --

2.5W -- 5 teams -- Bluffton HS Alley Cats lead at 5-0

3.0M -- 6 teams -- Wexford Wildcats, Sun City Sun Devils tied at 5-1

3.0W -- 9 teams -- Beaufort Breeze, Palmetto Dunes Divas tied at 4-2

3.5M -- 8 teams -- Bluffton Breeze leads at 3-0

3.5W -- 18 teams -- Palmetto Dunes Dixie Chix lead at 4-0 in Flight I; Indigo Run Volley Girls lead at 4-0 in Flight II

4.0M -- 4 teams -- Port Royal Sundevils, Beaufort Rovers tied at 3-2

4.0W -- 6 teams -- Sea Pines Smashers lead at 6-0

4.5M -- 2 teams -- Beaufort Tidal Wave leads at 1-0

4.5W -- 3 teams -- South Beach leads at 1-0

5.0M -- 2 teams -- play TBA

How To Fix It If ………

"Broken" Email Services Make for a Checkered Delivery Weekend

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- We can't explain anything about computers, the Internet and such, but the following is an accounting of bouncing and messages that TENNIS E-News experienced on the weekend. And AOL was NOT involved … to our knowledge.

Saturday

11 p.m. – TENNIS E-News Saturday issue emailed

Sunday

3:28 a.m. – Yahoo broken – message delayed – do not resend

3:29 a.m. – charter.net broken – message delayed – do not resend

3:36 a.m. – juno.com – message delayed – do not resend

4:03 a.m. -- blocked for mail-abuse -- ourclub.com

4:12 a.m. – mac.com broken – message delayed – do not resend

7:11 p.m. – rejected by bellsouth.com – blocked for abuse

8:18 p.m. – TENNIS E-News Sunday issue emailed

8:19 p.m. – blocked for abuse

10:06 p.m. – yahoo.com broken – message delayed – do not resend

10:07 p.m. – blocked for mail abuse -- ourclub.com

10:08 p.m. – charter.net broken – message delayed – do not resend

10:11 p.m. – yahoo.com broken – message delayed – do not resend

10:13 p.m. – rejected -- comcast.net – bad SMTP

10:19 p.m. – charter.net broken – message delayed – do not resend

11:12 p.m. – yahoo.com broken – message delayed – do not resend

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