Them Sun City Finals

It's Super Senior & Combo Pre-Registration Time -- see below

TENNIS E-News

June 16, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 70
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Late Sunday afternoon.

Telephone: "Ring, ring, ring, ringading."

Sun City Seniors Tournament Director Ernie Clark: "Hello."

TENNIS E-News: "Hey, Ernie, how'd you guys make out with the weather?"

TD Ernie: "Just fine. We finished at 2:30 right before the heavy rain same in. We had a couple delays but we are done."

E-News: "Great. We'll be looking for the results soon."

TD E: "Not today. We're wiped out. We're goin' home. We'll post them tomorrow."

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Tournament Gets Lucky With Weather

Sun City Sr. Doubles Finish on Time, Then ………………………

BLUFFTON SC (TENNIS E-News) -- "Game, set, match, run like hell everybody." And then, in a tournament director's best dream, the rains came Sunday after all matches were completed in the Sun City Senior Doubles. There were a couple short delays, but the USTA-sanctioned event with 156 players entered finished pretty much on time.

Here are finals decided Saturday:

Mixed 50 Doubles -- Final -- Jenson/Bobby Tillison d. Todd Christensen/Tseng-Christensen 6-2; 1-6; 6-2

Mixed 70 Doubles -- Final -- Chris Iulo/Paul Williams d. Ann Clemmitt/Ron Levy 7-6(6); 6-2

Women's 55 Doubles -- Final -- Fitzpatrick/Janet Watanabe d. Brenda Hon/Manship 6-2; 6-1

Mixed 4.0 Doubles -- Final -- Kader/Kader d. Elsner/Elsner 6-4; 6-4

Men's 4.0 Doubles -- Final -- (1) James/Kirk d. (2) Kader/Neuman 6-0; 6-3

THIS JUST IN -- Posted at 09:22:33 p.m. 06/16/08 -- Sunday results:

Men's 3.0 Doubles -- Final -- Buck/Lynch d. Douglass/Gaffga 6-1; 6-1

Men's 3.5 Doubles -- Final -- (1) Bernsten/O'Sullivan d. Cooney/Wilcox 6-1; 6-0

Men's 50 Doubles -- Final -- (1) Brady/Whitlow d. Bergmann/Sturm 6-1; 6-2

Men's 55 Doubles -- Round Robin -- Goodson/Iannuzzi d. Douglass/Gaffga Wo (ill)

Men's 60 Doubles -- Final -- (2) Gorrell/Whitlow d. Neuman/Vander Berg 6-2; 6-3

Men's 65 Doubles -- Final -- (2) Manship/Vander Berg d. Smith/Tirone 4-6; 7-6; 7-5

Men's 70 Doubles --Round Robin-- Fodor/Malick d. Clark/Levy 6-4; 6-3; RR Elsner/Wiederhorn d. Koenig/Saylor 6-1; 6-0

Men's 75 Doubles -- Round Robin -- (1) Delacey/Pizzat d. Carrillo/Easterbrook Ret (inj)

Women's 65 Doubles -- Round Robin --Kelley/Palmer d. Bruno/Fluharty 6-3; 7-5

Women's 3.0 Doubles -- Final -- Johnson/Staten d. Newfield/Winchester 6-3; 7-5

Women's 3.5 Doubles -- Final -- Benedict/McGaughan d. Dominick/McEvoy 4-6; 6-2; 6-4

Women's 4.0 Doubles -- Round Robin -- Ferguson/Wilcox d. Chavez/McGill 6-3; 6-3

Mixed 65 Doubles -- Round Robin -- Flanigan/Flanigan d. Boswell/Fitzmaurice 6-0; 6-0; Overton/Overton d. Digiovanni/Sullivan-Digiovanni 6-1; 6-0

Mixed 3.5 Doubles -- Round Robin -- Oakley/Oakley d. Liberatore/Olson 6-2; 6-1

Super Senior & Combo Pre-Registration Time

Combo Deadline July 1; Super Senior Deadline July 13 -- All Levels 60s & 70s

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Time is running short to pre-register teams for the 2008 Combo League season -- men's and women's, adult and seniors. Pre-reg forms also are available for Super Seniors of 60s, 70s and 75s men's and women's teams.

Combo Coordinator Kathy Foulke reports that three 8.5 teams are registered, along with a few 7.5s and one 6.5, but no 5.5s. Registration is open for Adult 5.0, 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, 9.5 and 10.5 and Senior 5.5, 6.5, 7.5 and 8.5. League play will begin in late summer and lead to the South Carolina State Championships Oct. 24-27 that also will include Super Senior Combo.

To get on a combo team or for more information, contact Foulke at kathyfoulke@netscape.net or call 681-9649.

Super Senior 60s, 70s and 75s also are set for start in the last week in August or first week in September, keying toward State Championships Nov. 7-9 at Wild Dunes, Isle of Palms.

Captains needing pre-registration forms need to contact Mary Ellen Arboe for all women's levels and Men's 2.5s at tennisbeachbums@aol.com. All other men's rating and age level captains need to contact Don Grider at dmgrider@roadrunner.com. Individual players hoping to join a team, especially 75s, should contact the appropriate coordinator.

The fall leagues will mark the start of separate leagues for Hilton Head Island and across-the-bridge teams. Decision will come later on whether individual levels will split and which levels will be under which area coordinator. If you are not confused by this, you should be.

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Upcoming Tournaments:

June 27-29 – Beaufort Summer Splash!! USTA-sanctioned; rated divisions in Adults (ID# 704110608); age divisions in Juniors (ID# 704116008) (ADULTS, Tournament ID #704110608); Online registration now open. Info: Cathy McGill 843-271-0074

June 28 -- TAHHI Wimbledon Member Social at South Beach R.C. For information contact: Pat Leinberger 705-6014.

TENNIS E-News FootNote

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( ) Over the weekend, we received (although it was quarantined by spamblocker) an email about

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-- Dennis Malick