TENNIS E-NEWS
Monday, April 20, 2009 Vol. VIII, No. 40
2006 Winner of South Carolina Media Award
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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Told you so!
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Family Circle Cup
Remembering Steffi and Watching Sabine …
Hilton Head Island SC (TENNIS E-News) – In the Spring of 1986, a German teenager spent a good bit of a week practicing on Court 10 at Port Royal Racquet Club. That Sunday afternoon, she won her first professional tournament, upsetting Chris Evert 6-4, 7-5 for the Family Circle Cup championship at Sea Pines Racquet Club. Tennis World: Meet Steffi Graf.
In the Spring of 2009, another German teenager won her first professional tournament, overpowering a higher-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-4 for the Family Circle Cup championship in Charleston. Tennis World: Meet Sabine Lisicki.
Some day someone needs to erect a plaque to Graf on PRRC’s historic Court 10. It’s up to FCC to do a Lisicki court.
Staying cooooooooool behind the bar – then and now …
Steve Kennedy was serving drinks at Evonne’s and Player’s Club back in the earlier days of Family Circle Cup on Hilton Head Island. Having moved to the Charleston area to help care for his Mom almost 10 years ago, Steve has schlepping favorite fresh fruit smoothies and cocktails at Diego’s stadium-side refresharena.
With spectators donning warm-ups and watching matches from under tennis-arty blankees, business was not its greatest. Last year, the crowd was sweating. This year: “down about 20%,” Steve said Thursday. Very brisk winds and low temps, prompted one booth to add hot chocolate to the menu, promoted by a last-minute hand-drawn sign.
You Just Sign Up at the Tournament Booths and Sometimes …
HHIslander Lynsey Rini, like thousands of tournamentgoers, made sure to stop at all the promotion booths, pick up the goodies, sign up for drawings, etc., except Lynsey ended up on Stadium Court doing drills on opening night as part of a Charleston Post & Courier promotion.
A relatively new-to-the-game player, she said the experience was “somewhat different than what I was expecting. It was the equivalent of throwing foul shots during the halftime of a basketball game. It was a drill and skills promotion for about 10 minutes in between the first and second tournament sessions.”
Well, yes, Lynsey, but, hey, it was Family Circle Stadium Court. You played Stadium Court, and you take those shots when you can get them.
Play Starts Friday
Still Want To Play the BillyBob? Catch Michael Tuesday and Be Nice
Hilton Head Island SC (TENNIS E-NEWS) – The entry deadline for this weekend’s 24th annual BillyBob Century Cup Doubles just passed, but if you call Tournament Director Michael O’Keefe Tuesday at South Beach Racquet Club and talk nicely to him, you can get into the tournament.
Play will begin Friday and continue through the weekend in men’s, women’s and mixed doubles in combined ages of 80, 100, 120, 140 and 150 years, with rating restrictions applying. By midday today, the entry numbers were above last year and, the director said, draws are especially full in the mixed doubles categories.
Call the Racquet Club at 671-2215.
8.0 Senior Team Needs Players
CCTA Still Accepting Team Registration for Mixed Doubles Season
BLUFFTON SC (TENNIS E-NEWS) – The Coastal Carolina Tennis Association Mixed Doubles Season is shaping up and will be opening registration on Tennis Link soon, CCTA Mixed Coordinator Sally Harvey reports, but there is still time to get a team in. One 8.0 Senior team is looking for players.
The CCTA league will run June-August with the South Carolina State Championships Sept. 12-14 in Charleston. To contact the coordinator, email sharv@islc.net.
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Two years ago TENNIS E-News ran a well-received series of excerpts from "The Code, The Players' Guide for Unofficiated Matches". You have asked for a repeat? You got it.
Can a vibraton damping devices be placed on the strings of a racket? Yes, but these devices may only be placed outside the pattern of the crossed strings.
If a player’s racket strings break, can the player continue playing additional points? Yes.
*Note: TENNIS E-News is not making up these items. All are taken word-for-word from USTA's "The Code" that can be found in the "Friend at Court" handbook or as a stand-alone leaflet -- available by going to http://www.usta.com and selec ting "USTA Shop" and then "Books" on that page.
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Upcoming Tournaments/Activity:
Apr. 24-26: “BillyBob” Doubles Championships / South Beach Racquet Club / Combined age divisions in men’s, women's, mixed doubles / 80 & older, 100 & older, 120 & older, 140 & older, and 150 & older levels / For information, call Michael O'Keefe at 671-2215.
May 1-3: 3rd annual Banana Open Junior Challenge / Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center / Novice & Tournament boys & girls age-division singles / separate adult/junior run round robin May 1 / Benefit Children Research Institute / Call PD at 785-1152.
May 2-4: Bullfrog USTA Southern Section Designated Boys and Girls 12s and 14s / Van Der Meer Tennis Center / Sanctioned / 250 of top 12s & 14s in Southeast. / TennisLink ID #704115808 / For entry/other information, contact Justyn Schelver at 785-8388 ext. 119.
May 15-17: 4th annual Bluffton Today Open Tennis Tournament / Bluffton High School & satellite sites / Rated Adult doubles on clay; Age division Junior singles & doubles on hard, plus Adult/Child doubles / Information, call Brett Robertson at 816-2033.
TENNIS E-News FootNote
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( ) Assistant football coaches Scott Coy and Darren DeMeio of Westminster College (PA), who were in Nashville TN for a coaches’
( ) convention, were seriously injured during 4 a.m. horseplay in their hotel. The men, who weigh a combined 525 pounds, crashed
(___) through a double-paned window in their fourth floor room and fell to the ground in their underwear.
-- Dennis Malick
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