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Monday, September 15, 2008

3 MXD STATE CHAMPIONS

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TENNIS E-News

Sept. 15, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 100
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Adult 5.0, Senior 7.0 & 8.0 Titles

Wexford, PDTC, Port Royal Win Mixed Doubles State Championships

CHARLESTON SC (TENNIS E-News via TennisLink) -- The 5.0 Adult Wexford Dream Team played its dream match and the 7.0 Senior Port Royal Topspinners and 8.0 Senior PDTC simply put on a show of coooooooool in third-set match tiebreaks, capturing three finals for Hilton Head Island league teams in the South Carolina State Mixed Doubles Championships that ended today.

The Dreamers didn't monkey around with those third-set histrionics and took two straight-set courts in a 2-1 final over Spartanburg area's Westside Blue. Team captain Cal Navis and Carrie Vormohr won 6-3, 6-1 and Les Jones and Eliza Hall won 6-3, 6-4 to clinch the championship.

The 7.0 Senior Topspinners took two straight-setters in winning a 2-1 semifinal this morning over LCTA's Walterboro Silver. In the final, however, it was a TSMT by George Cooper and Dorothy Taylor that salted away Port Royal's championship. It was their second win of the day and was complemented by Dave Dockum and Team Captain Janet Goldin winning 6-2, 6-4 for the 2-1 finals victory.

8.0 Senior PDTC seemed bent on a Guinness record in the trail to the championship. The HHIslanders won five courts in TSMTs in their first two in-group matches. They swept through their third and four team matches winning mostly in straight-set courts. Just for excitement sake no doubt, PDTC's Sally Harvey and Roscoe Chambers no Court 1 and Kathy Jensen and Bobby Tillison on Court 3 both lost first sets 6-2 in the final. They recovered, however, and came back to win second sets and then the match super tiebreak.

The 6.0 Senior Spring Lake Odd Couples, captained by Tom Larkin, went 1-2 in group play but got a wildcard into the semifinals. It all ended there as Columbia's #1 Parklane Real Mixed Up won 2-1. All three matches in the semi-final went to third-set match tiebreaks.

Here are today's the results. These are incomplete, but we'll get to that later this week:

(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

Monday the 15^th

8 a.m. – A6.0 – Semifinal -- GSTL/Prestwick Illegtimis Nil vs. CTL: #1/Caughman Road Mixed Up

8 a.m. – A6.0 – Semifinal -- UPTA #1/Brookstone Mixed Up Stoners vs. LCTA #1/Pine Forest Ball Busters

8 a.m. – S6.0 – Semifinal -- UPTA/The Pavilion vs. LATA #1/Lexington Old Racquets

8 a.m. – S6.0 – Semifinal -- CTL #1/Parklane Real Mixed Up 2, Wildcard/Spring Lake Odd Couples 1

#1 doubles -- Charles Camaggio/Elizabeth Marchi (CTL) def. Keith Phoenix/Christine Graf 6-4, 2-6, 1-0

#2 doubles -- Tom Larkin/Patti Diggs (Spring Lake) def. Robert Squirewell/Alice Matthews 3-6, 6-4, 1-0

#3 doubles -- Richard Holmes/Maggie Switzer (CTL) def. Bob Apfel/Kay Kern 5-7, 7-5, 1-0

8 a.m. – S7.0 – Semifinal -- Port Royal Topspinners 2, Walterboro Silver 1

#1 doubles -- Jerry Jebo/Pat Leinberger (Port Royal) def. Trent Cannon/Emmy Zipperer 6-3, 6-1

#2 doubles -- George Cooper/Dorothy Taylor (Port Royal) def. Kenwood Rowe/Julie Bishop 6-1, 6-3

#3 doubles -- William Snead/Lessie Snead (Walterboro) def. Rich Rickenbach/Peggy King 6-2, 2-6, 1-0

8 a.m. – S7.0 – Semifinal -- LATA/Hole in the Wall Gang vs. Wildcard

8 a.m. -- A8.0 -- Semifinal -- LCTA #2/Collins Park Oversized vs. CTL/Mixed Mayhem

8 a.m. -- A8.0 -- Semifinal -- LCTA #1/Maybank vs. Wildcard

9:30 a.m. – A7.0 – Semifinal -- LATA #2/Lexington Tennis Crashers vs. GATA/Greenwood Civic Center

9:30 a.m. – A7.0 – Semifinal -- vs. UPTA #2/Greenville CC Mix It Up

11 a.m. – A5.0 – Final -- Wexford Dream Team 2, SATA/Westside Blue 1

#1 doubles -- Kristen Welborn/Will Welborn (Greenville) def. James Sewell/Lynsey Rini 6-7, 7-5, 1-0

#2 doubles -- Les Jones/Eliza Hall (Wexford) def. Gary Wilkins/Stephanie Webber 6-3, 6-4

#3 doubles -- Cal Navis/Carrie Vormohr (Wexford) def. Randy Wilkins/Heli Axness 6-3, 6-1

11 a.m. -- S8.0 -- Final -- PDTC 2, GATA/Gatewood Mixers 1

#1 doubles -- Sally Harvey/Roscoe Chambers (PDTC) def. Cathy Mays/Norman Whitfield 2-6, 6-3, 1-0

#2 doubles -- Rebecca Kidd/Frankie Manning (Gatewood) def. Roxanne Joseph/Tim Arr 7-6, 7-6

#3 doubles -- Kathy Jenson/Bobby Tillison (PDTC) def. Lucy Whitfield/Guy Harrison 2-6, 6-4, 1-0

11 a.m. -- A9.0 -- Final -- UPTA/Riverside vs. MCTL/Rock Hill Tennis Center

11 a.m. -- A10.0 -- LATA/The One-Hit Wonders winner of round robin

12:30 p.m. – A6.0 – Final

12:30 p.m. -- A7.0 – Final

12:30 p.m. – S6.0 – Final

1:30 p.m. – S7.0 – Final -- Port Royal Topspinners 2, UPTA/Greenville Sportsclub 1

#1 doubles -- Dave Dockum/Janet Goldin (Port Royal) def. Robert Heiks/Faye Nelms 6-2, 6-4

#2 doubles -- George Cooper/Dorothy Taylor (Port Royal) def. James Wimbrow/Betty Jo Pearce 3-6, 6-3, 1-0

#3 doubles -- Dennis Williams/Trisha Meadows (Greenville) def. Jerry Jebo/Pat Leinberger 7-6, 6-3

Litchfield

16 HHI, Bluffton Senior Players Ready for State Closed Clay Court Championships This Weekend

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Top-seeded Keith Whitlow in Men's 60 singles and Hank Iannuzzi/Bryce Young in 60 doubles will lead a 16-player contingent of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton players competing in the South Carolina State Closed Clay Championship this coming weekend at Litchfield Racquet Club, Pawleys Island.

The tournament always drops the top age-division players in the state and carries a Level One designation, meaning each win there counts much more in year-end rankings that winning in Level Two, Three and Four matches.

Some matches begin Thursday, but the bulk of action will start on Friday in Men's 35s through 80s singles and doubles and Women's 35s through 70s, as well as mixed doubles and father/son, mother/daughter and husband/wife doubles.

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Upcoming Tournaments:

Sept. 18-21: SC State Closed Senior Tennis Championships at Litchfield Racquet Club. 843-237-3983

Sept. 24-28: Fall Southern PTR/ROHO Wheelchair Championships at Chaplin Public Tennis Center. Volunteers needed to assist players and events. Contact Julie Jilly at 785-7244.

Sept. 26-28: Fripp Is. Fall Clay Court Championships. USTA-sanctioned in Men’s (35-75 odd) & Women’s (35-65 odd) singles & doubles; NTRP Men’s & Women’s 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 singles & doubles; Combo MxD 6.0, 7.0, 8.0. Call (843) 838-1504.

Sept. 26-28: Van Der Meer Junior Championships in Boys' & Girls' 18-10s. Call Justyn Schelver 785-8388 ext. 119.

Oct. 22-26: The Vacation Co. Adult Championships. USTA-sanctioned Level 2. Open and age divisions. Call Justyn Schelver 785-8388 ext 119

Oct. 24-27: USTA League South Carolina Combo State Championships at Daniel Island, Charleston

Oct. 31-Nov. 2 -- The Island Championship. TAHHI's annual tournament for Islanders and visitors. Go to www.tahhi.org.

Nov. 3-7: Beaufort County Senior Games 2008 including men's and women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles.

Nov. 7-9: South Carolina USTA League Super Senior Championships at Wild Dunes, Isle of Palms

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

3 MxD Teams Advance

TENNIS E-News

Sept. 14, 2008 Vol. VII, No. 99
South Carolina Tennis 2006 Media Award Winner
Hilton Head Island SC

Seniors & 5.0s Shine

PDTC, Wexford in Finals, PR Topspinners in 7.0 Semis of Mixed Doubles State Championships in Charleston

CHARLESTON SC (TENNIS E-News via TennisLink) -- The PDTC 8.0 Seniors abandoned its third-set-match-tiebreak "strategy" but the Wexford Dream Team made good use of the TSMTs as both Hilton Head Island league teams advanced to the finals of the South Carolina State Mixed Doubles Championships. The unbeaten PD and Wexford teams will be joined in action Monday by the 3-0 Port Royal Topspinners moving into their category semifinals.

PDTC, captained by Tim Arr, won five of six courts Saturday in TSMTs, but started off today by giving up only nine total games to win 3-0 in the morning. The 8.0 Seniors then won 2-1 in the afternoon to take a 4-0 record into Monday finals against Greenwood Area's Gatewood Mixers.

Wexford, captained by Cal Navis, picked off a couple of third-set-match-tiebreaks en route to a 3-0 win today to reach the Monday final against Spartanburg's Westside Blue. Port Royal's Topspinners, captained by Janet Goldin, took care of business with morning and afternoon 2-1 team wins. (TennisLink went off line amid posting final results, so we don't have the opponent the PR mixers will be playing.)

Here are today's the results and schedule for HHI area teams:

Sunday the 14^th

8 a.m. – S7.0 -- Port Royal Topspinners 2, CTL #2/Wildewood and Woodcreek Wildly Mixed 1

8 a.m. – S8.0 – PDTC 3, SATA/Spartanburg Athletic Club 0

9:30 a.m. – A7.0 -- Chaplin Heat 1, UPTA #1/Greenville CC Mix It Up 2

9:30 a.m. – S6.0 -- Spring Lake Odd Couples 1, LATA #2/Lexington Staying Alive 2

12:30 p.m. – A8.0 -- Bluffton Bangers 1, LCTA #1/Maybank 2

12:30 p.m. – S7.0 -- Port Royal Topspinners 2, SATA/Westside Salt ‘N’ Pepper 1

12:30 p.m. – S8.0 – PDTC 2, LCTA/Pine Forest Seniors 1

2 p.m. – A7.0 -- Chaplin Heat 1, CTL #3/Parklane Team X 2

2 p.m. – S6.0 -- Spring Lake Odd Couples 1, UPTA/The Pavilion 2

3:30 p.m. – A5.0 – Wexford Dream Team 3, CTL #2/Brenholm Park Deuces Wild 0

3:30 p.m. – A6.0 -- Wexford Ball and Chain 1, MCTL/Rock Hill Team Crush 2

Monday the 15^th

8 a.m. – A6.0 – Semifinal -- GSTL/Prestwick Illegtimis Nil vs. CTL: #1/Caughman Road Mixed Up

8 a.m. – A6.0 – Semifinal -- UPTA #1/Brookstone Mixed Up Stoners vs. LCTA #1/Pine Forest Ball Busters

8 a.m. – S6.0 – Semifinal -- UPTA/The Pavilion vs. TBA

8 a.m. – S6.0 – Semifinal -- CTL #1/Parklane Real Mixed Up vs. Wildcard

8 a.m. – S7.0 – Semifinal -- Port Royal Topspinners vs. TBA

8 a.m. – S7.0 – Semifinal -- LATA/Hole in the Wall Gang vs. Wildcard

8 a.m. -- A8.0 -- Semifinal -- LCTA #2/Collins Park Oversized vs. CTL/Mixed Mayhem

8 a.m. -- A8.0 -- Semifinal -- LCTA #1/Maybank vs. Wildcard

9:30 a.m. – A7.0 – Semifinal -- LATA #2/Lexington Tennis Crashers vs. GATA/Greenwood Civic Center

9:30 a.m. – A7.0 – Semifinal -- vs. UPTA #2/Greenville CC Mix It Up

11 a.m. – A5.0 – Final -- Wexford Dream Team vs. SATA/Westside Blue

11 a.m. -- S8.0 -- Final -- PDTC vs. GATA/Gatewood Mixers

12:30 p.m. – A6.0 – Final

12:30 p.m. -- A7.0 – Final

12:30 p.m. – S6.0 – Final

1:30 p.m. – S7.0 – Final

Clips of the tournament are available on www.kidzonetennis.com
Another KidZone Tournament Success at Chaplin Park … Video Highlights Available on Internet

HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Leave it to these the-future-is-now kids to set a Hilton Head Island tennis precedent. Saturday's KidZone Tennis Tournament, the second of the year at Chaplin Public Tennis Center, has video highlights available online. The event for Under 8 and Under 12 divisions had a total of 24 entries, with proceeds benefiting Chaplin Park tennis programs.

The youngsters, under Tournament Director Patricia Hy-Boulais, played on short courts with special foam and low-pressure balls. Clips of the tournament are available on www.kidzonetennis.com.
Here are the results:
Under 8s: Conrad Alford (defending champion) def Darby O'Donnell 4-7, 7-6, 7-3; consolation: Lara Martel def Nicholas Beckert 7-5, 7-1.
Under12s: Mathew Oliver def Bo Jenkins 4-0, 4-3; consolation: Justin Boulais def. Corie Fletcher 4-1, 4-0.