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Nutty Buddy Results from Saturday are an attachment to this issue.

TENNIS E-News

Nov. 09, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 125
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Back home in Paradise from Super Senior States at Wild Dunes, TENNIS E-News thanks you for your patience

in conveying results as received from the Wild Wing Nutty Buddy at Palmetto Dunes.

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2.5s To Play This Week

HHI Teams Win 9 Championships, CCTA 1 of 12 Divisions at Super Senior States

60s Men’s 3.0 – Won by Coastal Carolina

60s Men’s 3.5 – Won by Hilton Head Island

60s Men’s 4.0 – Won by Hilton Head Island

60s Women’s 3.0 – Won by Someplace Else, but Hilton Head Island was runnerup

60s Women’s 3.5 – Won & seconded by Someplace Else

60s Women’s 4.0 – Won by Hilton Head Island

70s Men’s 3.0 – Won by Hilton Head Island and HHI runnerup

70s Men’s 3.5 – Won by Hilton Head Island

70s Women’s 3.0 – Won by Hilton Head Island

70s Women’s 3.5 – Won by Hilton Head Island

75s Men’s 3.0 – Won by Hilton Head Island

(*60s Men’s 2.5 to be played this week with two HHI teams competing)

ISLE OF PALMS SC (TENNIS E-News via TennisLink) – What more needs to be said?! The South Carolina Super Senior State Championships turned into a bash by Hilton Head Island and Coastal Carolina players, as they combined to win nine of 11 contested divisions that wrapped up finals today at Wild Dunes Racquet Club. In one of the two categories that went elsewhere, an HHI team was runnerup and another HHI team placed second to an HHI team champion.

No time yet to check the record books. We’ll leave that to Guinness and the accountants compiling overall won-loss totals.

After sweeping the women’s and men’s 70s categories Saturday, the Sea Pines Country Club 75s got up early today and took three courts for the first-ever state championship in that age division. Captained by Bill Zervoulis, SPCC clinched the two-team division over Lexington’s Topspin Ancients.

Bill Cale’s Long Cove Super Retreads won an early semifinal today, then stepped aside while Barbara Steiger’s Port Royal Senior Moments and Allan Zak’s Port Royal won their finals. The PR Moments took one of those pesky third-set tiebreaks to clinch the 60s Women’s 4.0 championship over the Lowcountry Super Women 2-1. The PR guys, competing as HHI #2, won the 60s Men’s 4.0 final with a pair of straight-setters over Upper Piedmont/Spindle Tree.

The Long Cove ‘treads came back out at high noon and won the 60s Men’s 3.5 final over Grand Strand/Riverfront of Conway 2-1, doing it on straight-set decisions.

Surely a future Trivial Pursuit question will deal with which team was the first Coastal Carolina state champion – the 60s Men’s 3.0 Sun City Court Jesters, captained by Bill Flack. And the tiebreaker question will be which doubles team won two third-set match tiebreaks that clinched the semifinal and final: Alex Tan and Paul Naef. (Some day USTA will report third sets by something other than the idiotic “1-0” result.)

With 28 Hilton Head Island and Coastal Carolina teams are competing and completing play today, the Men’s 2.5s will play this week, with only two teams – Moss Creek and Country Club of Hilton Head.

Here are today’s team results (+ individual results in Saturday championship clinchers) involving HHI and CCTA teams. There are some funky names/spellings/etc. and we’ve tried to follow what’s posted:

(Key to abbreviations: AATL = Aiken Area; CTL = Columbia; FTA = Foothills/Greenville; GATA = Greenwood; GSTL = GrandStrand/Myrtle Beach; LATA = Lexington Area; LCTA = Lowcountry/CharlestonArea; MCTL = Mid-Carolina/York County/Rock Hill; PD = PeeDee/Florence;SATA = Spartanburg Area; UPTA = Upper Piedmont/Greenville)

Saturday the 8^th

9:30 a.m. – SS70/W3.0 -- Sun City Golden Girls 2, MCTL/Ladies of the Night Plus 1 (clinched championship)

Ct. 1 – Sondra Goldberg/Jean Bongiorno lost 6-2, 6-4

Ct. 2 – Maria Diorio/Elaine Berlind won 6-1, 6-0

Ct. 3 – Norma Connor/Jean Podgorski won 3-6, 6-3, 1-0

2 p.m. – SS70/M3.0 – Final – HHI #1/Sea Pines Imposters 2, HHI #2/Spring Lake Cruisers 1

Ct. 1 – Bob Pentz/Richard Clapp (Cruisers) def. Bill MdcCaffery/Eric Smith 3-6, 7-6, 1-0

Ct. 2 – James Boldrick/Sal Zuccala (Imposters) def. Philip Thornton/Lee Lopez 7-5, 7-6

Ct. 3 – Bob Hilton/Murray Hallett (Imposters) def. Dick Bloom/Hale Mayer 6-3, 6-3

2 p.m. – SS70/M3.5 – Final – HHI/Indigo Run 2, LCTA #1/Seabrook Greys 1

Ct. 1 – Fred Carrillo/Ernie Myers won 6-0, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Paul Williams/Tom Grifa lost 2-6, 6-4, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Jack Gamer/Doug Nabholz won 3-6, 6-2, 1-0

Sunday the 9^th

8 a.m. – SS75/M3.0 – HHI/Sea Pines CC 75s 3, LATA/Topspin Ancients 0 (clinched championship)

Ct. 1 – Murray Hallett/Eric Smith won 6-2, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Bill McCaffery/Bill Zervoulis won 6-3, 6-4

Ct. 3 – Bob Hilton/Dick Sonberg won 6-3, 6-3

8 a.m. – SS60/M3.5 – Semifinal – HHI #1/Long Cove Super Retreads 2, LATA 1

Ct. 1 – Joe Hardy/Gordon Levering won 6-0, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Jerry Jebo/Bob Muller won 6-2, 2-6, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Scott Bernsten/Tom Werner lost 1-6, 6-2, 1-0

8 a.m. – SS60/M3.5 – Semifinal – GSTL 2, LCTA 1

8 a.m. – SS60/W3.0 – Semifinal – HHI #2/Moss Creek Powershots 2, UPTA #2 1

Ct. 1 – Janet Daniel/Linda Alt won 6-2, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Penelope Calf/Penelope Pearson lost 6-4, 6-2

Ct. 3 – Melanie Hyler/Lois Coonrad won 6-1, 6-1

8 a.m. – SS60/W3.0 – Semifinal – HHI #1/SCYacht Hot Flashes 0, UPTA #1/Tryon Park 3

Ct. 1 – Thelma Naylor/Barbara MacNeil lost 6-0, 6-4

Ct. 2 – Mary Dickson/Judy Hathaway lost 6-4, 6-4

Ct. 3 – Janie Weeks/Linda Rae Belleville lost 6-2, 7-5

9:30 a.m. – SS60/M3.0 – Semifinal – CCTA/Sun City Court Jesters 2, AATL/Woodside 1

Ct. 1 – Bill Flack/Michael Zipes lost 6-4, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Alex Tan/Paul Naef won 6-3, 6-7, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Charles Smith/Robert Perrone won 4-6, 6-3, 1-0

9:30 a.m. – SS60/M3.0 – Semifinal – UPTA 2, GATA 1

9:30 a.m. – SS60/W3.5 – Semifinal – GATA 1, CTL 2

9:30 a.m. – SS60/W3.5 – Semifinal – GSTL 2, CCTA/Dataw Dixies 1

11 a.m. – SS60/M4.0 – Final – HHI #2/Port Royal 2, UPTA/Spindle Tree 1

Ct. 1 – Dave Partington/Doug Luba won 6-4, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Howard Kirk/Joe Daniel lost 6-3, 6-3

Ct. 3 – Don Steele/John Brummitt won 6-3, 6-2

11 a.m. – SS60/W4.0 – Final – HHI #1/Port Royal Senior Moments 2, LCTA/Lowcountry Super Women 1

Ct. 1 – Jean Freeman/Linda Pastore lost 6-2, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Kim Shimada/Julie Forbes won 6-2, 3-6, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Judy Barons/Barbara Steiger won 6-2, 6-3

Noon – SS60/M3.5 – Final – HHI #1/Long Cove Super Retreads 2, GSTL/Conway Riverfront 1

Ct. 1 – Bill Cale/Harold Stephens won 6-1, 6-4

Ct. 2 – Joe Hardy/Gordon Levering won 6-4, 7-6

Ct. 3 – Jerry Jebo/Tom Werner won 6-3, 6-4

Noon – SS60/W3.0 – Final – HHI #2/Moss Creek Powershots 0, UPTA #1/Tryon Park 3

Ct. 1 – Janet Daniel/Linda Alt lost 6-3, 6-4

Ct. 2 – Penelope Calf/Penelope Pearson lost 6-2, 5-7, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Melanie Hyler/Sandra Hannah lost 6-1, 6-4

1:30 p.m. – SS60/M3.0 – Final – CCTA/Sun City Court Jesters 2, UPTA/Keowee Key Racketeers 1

Ct. 1 – Ken Diehl/Tom Docherty lost 6-4, 6-3

Ct. 2 – Paul Naef/Alex Tan won 7-6, 4-6, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Robert Perrone/Charles Smith won 6-2, 6-4

1:30 p.m. – SS60/W3.5 – Final – CTL 2, GSTL 1

Monday the 10^th

11:30 a.m. – SS60/M2.5 – Moss Creek Raging Bulls vs. Country Club of Hilton Head Court Jesters at CCHH

Tuesday the 11^th

10 a.m. -- – SS60/M2.5 – Moss Creek Raging Bulls vs. Country Club of Hilton Head Court Jesters at Moss Creek

Friday the 14th

2:30 p.m. (if necessary) -- – SS60/M2.5 – Moss Creek Raging Bulls vs. Country Club of Hilton Head Court Jesters at Sun City

Palmetto Dunes Action

Wild Wing Nutty Buddy Finals Sunday

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) – Today was finals day at the Wind Wing Café Nutty Buddy Tennis Classic at Palmetto Dunes. Matches started in early morning and rolled into the afternoon. We’ll catch up with results as we get them.

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Upcoming Tournaments:

Nov. 21-23: 6^th annual Thanksgiving Turkey Tennis Tournament at Chaplin Park. Adults and juniors. Email chaplinroundrobin@hotmail.com

Nov. 22: QuickStart Tennis Tournament at Hampton Hall. Kids 8 and younger and 10 and younger. Call 816-2033.

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