NET JETS IN FINALS

TENNIS E-News

Jan. 25, 2009 Vol. VIII, No. 9
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

(Reporting from home where it is much colder than that screen porch of a friend in The Villages FL)

Port Royal?? We’re Not Sure

PD Net Jets in Finals at Southern Section Combo Championships in Mobile

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News via TennisLink) – We’re pretty much guessing on this one, but one thing for sure is that the Senior Women’s 6.5 PD Net Jets have advanced to the Monday finals of the Southern Section Combo Championships in Mobile AL.

We can also pretty much guess that the lack of score posting Saturday night meant that weather washed out the normal schedule for the day and muddied the matchtimes for today. In past cases, this has meant that when scores eventually are posted on TennisLink they will reflect the actual winner but not necessarily the actual scores. It’s a computer formatting situation USTA has not solved yet, together with how to handle reporting a third-set match tiebreak other than the idiotic 1-0.

When we last left our three HHI teams that had won South Carolina championships last fall, all had won their Friday matches. The Net Jets, captained by PattyDiggs, went on to win again Saturday or today and were so far ahead of the other teams (we’re guessing) that they advanced to the final. The Net Jets did not play their fourth scheduled in-group match.

Senior Men’s 7.5 Port Royal, captained by Dave Partington and competing as South Carolina “B”, followed up a Friday win with two more Saturday or today, leaving them tied for Group II lead at 3-0 with Tennessee/Knoxville. No results of that face-off have been posted. The winner is to play the Group I winner on Monday. The HHI guys could end up playing South Carolina “A” Greenwood in the final.

Meanwhile, the Super Senior Women’s 7.5 Indigo Run Hot Shots, captained by Jean Freeman, went 1-2 in matches Saturday and/or today to finish second in their group and out of the finals.

(If you really want to know: when pro sets are used in championship matches, the USTA uses a conversion table in order to enter a score … some score … any score. Like an 8-6 actual pro set may be recorded at 6-3, 6-3 and an 8-4 as 6-2, 6-2 … or whatever.)

Here are results and the schedule involving the HHI league teams:

Friday the 23^rd

8 a.m. – SW6.5 -- PD Net Jets 2, AL/Gulf Shores 1

8 a.m. – SSW7.5 – Indigo Run Hot Shots 3, TN-B/Knoxville 0

9:30 a.m. – SM7.5 -- Port Royal (SC-B) 2, AR-A/North Little Rock 1

12:30 p.m. – SW6.5 -- PD Net Jets 2, AR/Little Rock 1

Times of matches … and actual scores … are uncertain here, but this is how they were posted on TennisLink today.

Saturday the 24^th

8 a.m. – SM7.5 -- Port Royal (SC-B) 2, NC/Hendersonville 1

Ct. 1 – Kent James/Sean O’Sullivan won 7-6, 6-4

Ct. 2 -- Howard Kirk/Rick Rickenbach won 6-4, 6-4

Ct. 3 – Dave Partington/Dave Dockum lost 6-3, 6-3

8 a.m. – SSW7.5 – Indigo Run Hot Shots 1, GA-A/Athens 2

Ct. 1 –Julie Forbes/Dee Calderon lost 2-6, 6-3, 1-0

Ct. 2 – Barbara Steiger/Freda Thomas won 6-3, 6-4

Ct. 3 – Dottie Bass/Marilyn Yates lost 6-7, 6-2, 1-0

11 a.m. – SW6.5 -- PD Net Jets 2, LA-B/Lafayette 1

Ct. 1 – Judy Larkin/Patty Diggs won 6-4, 6-4

Ct. 2 – Pat Leinberger/Mary Clark won 6-3, 6-3

Ct. 3 – Beth Fishburne/Kay Kern lost 7-6, 7-6

12:30 p.m. – SSW7.5 – Indigo Run Hot Shots 1, LA/Monroe 2

Ct. 1 – Jean Freeman/Marian Trenis lost 6-4, 6-7, 1-0

Ct. 2 – Chris Iulo/Dee Calderon lost 4-6, 7-6, 1-0

Ct. 3 – Ginny Carter/Freda Thomas won 7-5, 6-0

2 p.m. – SM7.5 -- Port Royal (SC-B) 2, MS/Pinebelt 1

Ct. 1 – Howard Kirk/Dave Dockum lost 6-1, 7-5

Ct. 2 – Kent James/Sean O’Sullivan won 6-0, 6-3

Ct. 3 – Dave Partington/Rick Rickenbach won 6-3, 4-6, 1-0

Sunday the 25^th

9:30 a.m. – SW6.5 -- PD Net Jets vs. NC/Lake Norman – did not play.

11 a.m. – SM7.5 -- Port Royal (SC-B) vs. TN/Knoxville

11 a.m. – SSW7.5 – Indigo Run Hot Shots 2, NC/Boone 1

Ct. 1 – Julie Forbes/Marilyn Yates lost 6-1, 6-2

Ct. 2 – Barbara Steiger/Marian Trenis won 7-6, 6-4

Ct. 3 – Dottie Bass/Freda Thomas won 6-2, 6-2

3 p.m. – SSW7.5 – Final – Winner of Group I vs. winner of Group II

Monday the 26^th

8 a.m. – SW6.5 – Final – PD Net Jets vs. TN/Knoxville

9:30 a.m. – SM7.5 – Final – Winner of Group I vs. winner of Group II

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Upcoming Tournaments/Activity:

Feb. 4: TAHHI Annual Meeting and Dinner-Dance at HHI Beach & Tennis Resort

Feb. 6-8: Palmetto Dunes Resort Tennis Classic / Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center / Men’s and women’s singles and doubles in rated divisions 2.5 thru open / Benefit National Multiple Sclerosis Society / Contact Palmetto Dunes at 785-1152.

Feb. 12-15: Daufuskie Island Adult Championships / Haig Point Club / USTA-sanctioned / Men’s and women’s singles and doubles (no mixed) in 40-80 age divisions; rating divisions 3.0, 3.5, 4.0. / ID #704105609 / Contact Ron Gwyn at 384-0553.

Feb. 14-20: Professional Tennis Registry $25,000 Championships / Van Der Meer Shipyard Racquet Club / USTA-sanctioned / ID #704102409 / Contact Peggy Edwards peggy@ptrtennis.org / 785-7244

Mar. 1-31: Spring Break Tennis 2009 / About 200 college teams in dual matches throughout the Island. See Island Packet for match schedule.

Mar. 6-8: Van Der Meer Men’s & Women’s Open / Van Der Meer Tennis Center / Contact Justyn Schelver at Justyn@vdmtennis.com.

Mar. 6-8: 26th annual “Luck of the Irish” Doubles Tournament / Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center / Men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles in rated divisions 2.5 thru open / call Palmetto Dunes at 785-1152.

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