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Tuesday, Dec. 03, 2012         Vol. XI,  No. 01                  Recipient of the South Carolina Media of the Year Award                                    Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

 

CAPTAINS MEETING WEDNESDAY AT 4 AND 5:30  for Spring Adult/Senior Leagues

Center Court Conference Center (behind Alexander's) -- Story below

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Players Looking for Spring Teams; Teams Looking for Players

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Players Looking for Spring Teams

    Adult Women's 3.5 --  Lois Sobczak is looking for a 3.5 Adult team for the Spring. Her email address is loissobczak363@gmail.com.

    Adult Women's 3.0 -- Erika Ludvigsen would like to join an Adult 3.0 team for the Spring. Contact erika.ludvigsen@gmail.com or 843 342-6297.

    Senior Women's 3.5 -- Lorraine Soca was on a 3.5 Senior team that dissolved for lack of players. She is looking to play on a 3.5 Senior team. Email  lssc843@aol.com or phone 843-263-1544 or 843-342-2734..

    Women's 4.0 -- April Rarig is looking for a Women's 4.0 team for the Spring season. Contact 785-4781 or lirpa111@yahoo.com

    Women's 3.0 -- Michele Plenzler is looking for a Women's 3.0 team for the Spring League. Contact her at 342-3339.

 

    Men's 3.0 -- Ed Loeser is interested in playing on a Men's 3.0 tennis team this Spring. Contact aloeser@aol.com or call 843-342-6688.
    Men's 3.5 -- Ray Hollis is looking for a Saturday team.  His e-mail is rehollis@hotmail.com and his phone is 682-2003.

    Men's 3.5 -- Robert Moore is looking for a team.  His cell is (808) 292-2120.  His e-mail is r808m@yahoo.com.  Please call him if you have room on your roster.

    Men's 3.0/3.5 -- Derek Williams is looking for a team.  He would come in self-rated based on an observation by a PTR person.  His phone is 816-1723 and his e-mail  is dwms68@gmail.com.

 

Spring Teams Looking for Players

    70s Men's 3.5/4.0 Interclub -- 4.0 players are needed for the Spring Men's 70s Interclub that begins in mid-February. All 4.0s play on Court One. Email inquiry to  banana@hargray.com.

    Senior 3.0 Women's -- Several Senior Women's 3.0 teams are looking for players. Contact Coordinator Mary Ellen Arboe at tennisbeachbums@aol.com.

    Adult 4.0 Men's -- South Beach R.C. is looking for Men's 4.0 Adults for the Spring season. Contact Mike Soby at mikesoby@roadrunner.com

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     #2 of Top Five Most Asked Questions About League Restructuring
 Q&A Will Appear in this and the next several TENNIS E-News issues. Scroll down now for Q&A #1 & 2

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6 More Sr. Teams on HHI; 7 More in CCTA

     CAPTAINS MEETING WEDNESDAY AT 4 AND 5:30  for Spring Adult/Senior Leagues

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The 2012 USTA League Spring season is about to roll out, with Wednesday afternoon captains' meetings that will set out and clear up final plans, formats, local rules, etc. Captains and co-captains only should attend either meeting -- 4 or 5:30 p.m. -- at the Center Court Conference Center that is in Palmetto Dunes ... behind Alexander's Restaurant and across the bridge.

    Among formats to be set out will be whether local leagues will be playing out the third set or, like at advanced championships, will be playing third-set match tiebreaks. Start of the Spring play will depend on numbers of teams in each level, with some probably beginning late this month. Teams will play through April, again depending on the level. May will bring back to HHI the South Carolina Senior State League Championships -- this time a bit later, avoiding a clash with Mother's Day and playing May 19-21.

    Roster-filling is under way on TennisLink, with team numbers above 2011 totals -- up by six in Seniors and down by four in Adults. Numbers are not in yet on some of the levels, particularly those in the upper rating divisions that normally have one or two teams. In HHI leagues, one or two teams have been added to several levels, accounting to the increase. Notable jumps have come in the CCTA Senior Women's ranks, now showing three new teams in 2.5 and four more teams than last Spring at 3.5. However, that Senior 2.5 gain left a blank slate of Adult 2.5 Women that had two teams in Spring '11.

 

    The small shifting from one level to the next will pall compared to what will happen in 2013 under the USTA League restructuring. That's when the Senior 50s level is changed to Adult 40s and the Senior 60s drops to Adult 55s. Decisions will have to be made locally as to when the various levels play during the 2013 seasons and beyond. Stay tuned, and check back regularly with the USTA South Carolina webpage (www.sctennis.com) special section on restructuring updates.

 

    The HHI and CCTA leagues will have three months to work through regular schedules and playoffs if needed to set up for May's SC Senior States. The SC Adult States will be played May 26-28 for 4.0, 4.5 and 5.0 in Aiken and June 2-4 for 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 in Greenville.

    HHI League Coordinator Jackie Reynecke can be contacted at jackie@palmettodunes.com. For information and registration specific to your level, email your level coordinator listed here:

 

2012 HHI Spring League Level Coordinators

 Category - Adult  Coordinator  Contact     Category - Senior Coordinator Contact
 2.5 Men & Women  Sue Cook  hhitennis@aol.com      2.5 Men & Women  Sue Cook  hhitennis@aol.com
 3.0 Men  Sue Cook  hhitennis@aol.com      3.0 Men  Don Grider  dmgrider@roadrunner.com
 3.0 Women  Joanne Dugle  joannedugle@hargray.com      3.0 Women  Mary Ellen Arboe  tennisbeachbums@aol.com
 3.5 Men  Sue Cook  hhitennis@aol.com      3.5 Men  Don Grider  dmgrider@roadrunner.com
 3.5 Women  Ann Hunt  ahuntsc@aol.com      3.5 Women  Ann Hunt  ahuntsc@aol.com
 4.0 Men  Sue Cook  hhitennis@aol.com      4.0 Men  Don Grider  dmgrider@roadrunner.com
 4.0 Women  Joanne Dugle  joannedugle@hargray.com      4.0 Women  Ann Hunt  ahuntsc@aol.com
 4.5 Men  Sue Cook  hhitennis@aol.com      4.5 Men & Women  Jackie Reynecke  jreynecke@hargray.com
 4.5 Women  Jackie Reynecke  jreynecke@hargray.com          
 5.0 Men & Women  Jackie Reynecke  jreynecke@hargray.com          

 

UPDATING NUMBERS FOR USTA SPRING LEAGUES

 

Hilton Head Island Tennis Leagues -- 2012 Adult standings -- As of 01/03/12

    Teams and players to date

Rating

'12 Teams '12 Players '11 Teams '11 Players

'10 Teams

'10 Players

 09 Teams 09 Players

'12 Season

2011 Champion

2.5M

 0 0    

1

N/A

  

2.5W

5 46 6 64

5

46 

4 51

N/A

CC of HH Ynots

3.0M 4 38 5 67 4 61 4 58 N/A SCYC Working Stiffs

3.0W

6 68 6 82

6

83

 5 77 N/A

 SCYC Yachtas

3.5M

7 81 7 95

7

99

 6 86 N/A SCYC Miscreants

3.5W

9 117 11 156

11

164

 14 214 N/A

 SCYC Yachtas

4.0M

5 55 4 52

6

84

 5 66 N/A

PRRC Sun Devils

4.0W

10 115 10 154

8

126

 4 62 N/A

Sea Pines Smashers

4.5M

2 7 2 27

3

42

 2 32 N/A

PDTC, SBRC Hogg Doggs

4.5W

 3 6 2 28

4

59

 2 27 N/A  South Beach Swingers

5.0M

 0 0 1 1

1

5

 N/A HHI 5.0 Men -- only one team

5.0W

 0 0 1 0

1

5

 N/A HHI 5.0 Women -- only one team

Total

51 533 54 726

 56

769

 46 673

 

 

 

Hilton Head Island Tennis Leagues – 2012 Senior standings -- As of 01/03/12

    Teams and players to date

Rating

'12 Teams '12 Players

'11 Teams

'11 Players

'10 Teams

'10 Players

'09 Teams

'09 Players

'12 Season

2011 Champion

2.5M

 0 0

 

 

2

12

4

47

N/A

3.0M

9 72

9

109

8

 100

14

166

N/A

 Moss Creek Tornadoes

3.0W

14 137

12

142

10

123

12

143

N/A

 Haig Point Marshside Mamas

3.5M

17 148

17

203

20

244

13

168

N/A

 Indigo Run

3.5W

22 224

22

268

20

230 

18

225

N/A

  South Beach Sandspurs

4.0M

12 106

10

124

10

127

7

77

N/A

  Wexford Witness Protection

4.0W

11 105

9

112

8

99

6

78

N/A

 Port Royal Herricanes

4.5M

3 19

2

25

2

22

0

0

N/A

South Beach Hogg Doggs 

4.5W

 2 12

2

24

2

22

0

0

N/A

PDTC Volley Dolls

Total

91 823

83

1,007

82

  979

74

904

 

 

 


Coastal Carolina Tennis – 2012 Adult standings -- as of 01/03/12

Rating

'12 Teams '12 Players '11 Teams '11 Players

'10 Teams

'10 Players

'12 Season

2011 Champion

2.5W

0 0 2 24

5

43 

N/A

Oldfield

3.0M

 1 12 1 0    

N/A

 Hampton Hall Cubs

3.0W

4 39 4 60

4

53

N/A

   Colleton River Club

3.5M

0 0    

1

1

n/a

 

3.5W

4 49 5 64

5

 74

N/A

  Hampton Lake Hotshots

4.0M

2 22 3 28

0

  0

N/A

Habersham Hammers

4.0W

4 40 2 20

4

62 

N/A

   Beaufort Sea Islanders

4.5M 1 6 2 19    

N/A

 Beaufort

4.5W

3 35 3 34

0

0 

N/A

  Beaufort Ball Stompers

Total

19 203 22 249

19

233

 

 

 

Coastal Carolina Tennis – 2012 Senior standings -- as of 01/03/12

Rating

'12 Teams '12 Players '11 Teams '11 Players

'10 Teams

'10 Players

'12 Season

2011 Champion

2.5W

3 30    

0

0 

n/a

 

3.0M

8 74 7 88

7

89

N/A

 Habersham Half Volleys

3.0W

6 64 7 88

7

 83

N/A

Sun City Volley Dolls

3.5M

12 120 12 148

15

  168

N/A

Sun City Challengers

3.5W

15 154 12 140

12

  135

N/A

 Sun City Violet Offenders

4.0M

8 93 7 91

7

  76

N/A

 Hampton Lakers

4.0W

5 49 6 67

5

  60

N/A

 Spring Chix

4.5W

3 23 3 27

1

  12

N/A

Berkeley

4.5M

 1 9 0 0 0 0    

Total

 61 616 54 649

54

 623    

 

 

'10 Official of the Year

     Kinard Elected a Vice President of USTA South Carolina

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Terry Kinard of HHI came home from the 2010 USTA South Carolina annual meeting with the Official of the Year Award. This time, he comes home as a USTA SC vice president.

    Kinard was elected to the Board of Directors on its 2012 slate. Among his duties will be serving as staff liaison for the Adult Competition Committee that oversees sanctioned tournaments and related matters such as state rankings. Al Marshall of Aiken is the new USTA SC president, elected for a two-year term.

     Kinard will serve on the board with Cindy Vander Berg of Bluffton who continues as director of the South Area that includes HHI, Bluffton, Beaufort and the assorted island tennis activities.

 

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What Hilton Head Island Tennis Will Be Missing in early 2012

    KidZone ... PTR Symposium Heading to Florida

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- For an area most accustomed to growth of tennis programs, tennis leagues, numbers of tennis players, 2012 will be getting off on a step in another direction.

    -- Yves Boulais and Patricia Hy-Boulais are shutting down their KidZone Tennis junior programs and moving to Florida.

    -- Professional Tennis Registry, with international headquarters here, will for the first time conduct its International Symposium and Championships in Orlando FL in February.

 

    From Hy Tennis: "Our own children and many others on the Island have benefited from our (KidZone) programs that were held mostly at Chaplin Park," Boulais said. "The main reason that we are leaving is that we could no longer make it financially under the condition that was offered to us. Our program was growing in demand, but we could no longer provide a good service without having more courts at our disposition." 

    Boulais said that the Island Rec Center, which runs Chaplin, has had complaints about courts not always being available during the KidZone program hours -- 3 to 6 p.m. during school weekdays and 9 a.m. to noon during summer camps. Courts have been leased from Island Rec and the lease rate offered for 2012 is significantly increased, Boulais said. "We were perceived as the bad guys that owned a very lucrative private business making money on a public facility. Which was completely untrue." he said.

    About 120 kids have been involved in the KidZone instruction programs and one-day USTA-sanctioned tournaments, Boulais said, adding, "We have made some search to partner with other facilities but nothing was suitable for our program."  

 

    From the PTR: The International Symposium will be Feb. 24 – 27 at the Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando. For information, go to www.ptrtennis.org.

The PTR's Julie Jilly emailed that "the intention is to come back to HHI for 2013. The move to Orlando was not a permanent move – simply a way to meet the needs of the many, many demographic members of PTR," she said, adding: "Of course, the Board of Directors will make decisions about such things but I do not think anyone plans on staying in Orlando every year."
 

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2012 USTA League South Carolina State Championships

    May 19-21: South Carolina USTA League Senior State Championships / All levels men and women / Hilton Head Island

        May 26-28: South Carolina USTA League Adult State Championships / Adult levels men and women 4.0, 4.5 and 5.0 / Aiken

    June 2-4: South Carolina USTA League Adult State Championships / Adult levels men and women 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 / Greenville

        July 20-22: Junior Team Tennis State Championship - Florence

    Sept. 15-17: South Carolina USTA Mixed Doubles League State Championships / All levels in adult and senior divisions / Florence

        Oct. 12-14 South Carolina USTA Super Senior Mixed Doubles League State Championships / All levels of Super Senior Mixed / Aiken

    Oct. 18-22: South Carolina BMW Combo League State Championships / All levels men and women’s Adult, Senior, Super Senior / Daniel Island

        Oct. 30-Nov. 4: South Carolina USTA Super Senior League State Championships / All levels men and women 60s, 70s, 75s / Isle of Palms

    Nov. 17-20: South Carolina State Singles Team Championships / All levels men and women Adult and Senior / Isle of Palms

 

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 Changes Coming in a Year

     #2 of the Top Five Most Asked Questions About League Restructuring
         Q. I saw there are going to be National Championships for the 18 & Above, Adult 40 & Above, Adult 55 & Above and Mixed 18 & Above under the new USTA restructuring. Why were the National Championships for the other leagues discontinued?
            A. No National Championships are being discontinued under the restructuring. Currently there are four National Championships–Adult 18 & Above, Senior 50 & Above, Super Senior 60 & Above and Mixed 18 & Above. There will be four National Championships under the restructuring, plus one National Invitational Event for Mixed 40 & Above. Others may be added in the future, depending on participation levels.
 

#1 of the Top Five Most Asked Questions About League Restructuring
     Q. My friends and I are perfectly happy with the existing league structure. Why the change?
    A. The final decision to realign the USTA League structure came down to a desire to better align league participants with players of their own age, and to better distribute USTA League players across the age categories. Research shows that this should result in more play opportunities, more participants and more competitive match play, and subsequently more accurate NTRP ratings.
     "Under the current model, we have players of the same ability, but not necessarily of the same playing style or fitness level," says USTA National League Committee Chair Bud Spencer of South Carolina. "Plus, USTA League is a social game as well as a competitive one, and in many instances, a 60 year old and a 20 year old may not have as much in common. The new system narrows that window to create more social commonalities. The 60 year old may still choose to play in the 18 and over, but now we feel we’ve presented that player with more age appropriate competition at the local level."

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The 2011 Year End Ratings are on line.

When searching for your NTRP rating use your USTA # and not your name for a faster response.
Go to www.sctennis.com, then click on TennisLink, then USTA Leagues and then in the Find a Rating box fill in your USTA number.

If APPEAL RATING appears on the new page in BLUE, you can immediately click on it to appeal the rating. 

If you select the "Advanced Search" tab, you will be able to go through dropdowns to show, for example, all Hilton Head Island Women's 3.5 players.

 

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UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS/Events: 

    Jan. 25-26: 24rd Annual Clay Court Maintenance Training School / Port Royal Racquet Club / Sponsored by HT Tennis / on-court training on clay court resurfacing and maintenance / For information, contact Denny Bianco 686-8803.

    Feb. 16-19: 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 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0. / ID #704105612/ For information, contact Ron Gwyn at 384-0553.

 

For the 2012 HHI/CCTA Tennis Schedule as Submitted by Area Clubs, scroll down to Archived Issue for 12/31/11.

 

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