Combo Deadline

TENNIS E-News

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 Vol. VIII, No. 76
Winner of the South Carolina Media of the Year Award
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Adult, Senior, Super Senior

Combo Team Pre-Registration Due Friday for Season To Start Next Month

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-NEWS) – It’s deadline time to register a team for this summer’s Combo Adult, Senior and Super Senior Leagues. Captains must have information of intention of entering a team in by Friday (10^th) to one of the Combo coordinators.

Senior and Super Senior men’s and women’s team information must be in to Joanne Dugle at joannedugle@hargray.com or faxed to 842-3544. Adult men’s and women’s team info goes to Sue Cook at Hhicombo@aol.com or faxed to 785-4013.

The season will begin in August and continue through September and October in time for local champions to be determine for the South Carolina State Combo Championships Oct. 23-26 at Family Circle Tennis Center, Daniel Island.

7 Days, 7 Matches

Riske Ride Ends in Semis of $50,000 Boston Tournament

BOSTON MA (TENNIS E-NEWS via usta.com) – Hilton Head Island women’s tour player Alison Riske got to her second $50,000 tournament semifinals of the year, but could not advance any farther, losing to Rebecca Marino of Canada 6-3, 6-1. That match Saturday was Riske’s seventh in as many days in the Empire Loan USTA Women’s Tournament.

Riske had won three rounds of qualifying and three in the main draw leading to the semis. In the Spring, she had reached the semifinals of a $50,000 tournament in Florida. In the Fall, she will enroll as a freshman at Vanderbilt University, following the tennis steps of her sister Sarah McGlamery, a four-time all-American there who now lives on Hilton Head Island.

In another HHI connection, International Tennis Federation Tour Supervisor for the Boston championships was Missy Malool, former HHIslander and now of Greater Bluffton. Also, Alison Riske worked with, among others, Islander Yves Boulais, who formerly coached Canadian Marino.

$1,500 Goes to Courts

Ey-land Player Wins USOpen Tickets in Fundraiser for Chaplin Tennis Courts

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-NEWS) – Active Chaplin Public Tennis Center player Wolfgang Ey now will have a chance to sit and watch some pretty good tennis, having had his name drawn in the Public Tennis Inc. fundraiser Sunday. The effort raised more than $1,500 for the court-expansion fund at Chaplin Park.

Ey now has two courtside seats for the 2009 US Open on his choice of days during the first week of play. Pennsylvanian Giancarlo Mazzoleni was high bidder in a silent auction for President’s Box seats at the Open.

PTI is midway through a 10-year plan to pay for the court-building project that expanded the facility to six lighted courts.

Combo Players Wanted

5.5 women's – A women’s combo team is being formed at Chaplin Public Tennis Center. A volunteer captain also is being sought. Interested players (and captain) should contact Tim Ryan at chaplinroundrobin@hotmail.com.

’Racket Up, America’

Buy a Racket and Get a Chance at a $1 Million Serve in Madison Square Garden

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- A new promotion by the tennis industry, designed to drive consumer awareness of tennis and stimulate retail sales, will offer a lucky winner the chance to serve for $1 million and win a trip to the US Open. In the unique promotion, called “Racket Up, America!”, anyone who buys a new tennis racket—of any brand, and at any tennis retailer or pro shop—from July 15 through Sept. 30 could win a chance to serve for the $1 million grand prize, along with a trip for two to the finals of the 2010 US Open.

The serve for $1 million will take place at the BNP Paribas Showdown in New York’s Madison Square Garden on Mar. 1, during Tennis Night in America, that coincides with events at tennis facilities throughout the country. Consumers register their racket purchase at www.playtennis.com/million and they’re immediately entered to win. Also available will be other prizes totaling $10,000. More information on “Racket Up, America!”, including official rules and details, are at that website and at www.playtennis.com/partner.

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