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Monday, Nov. 29, 2010         Vol. IX,  No.155                          Winner of the South Carolina Media of the Year Award                                    Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Comma Saves a Life -- See Today's "FootNote" below

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The Year-end Ratings are UP!!

How to find your Year-end Rating ...

    Go to www.sctennis.com, then (on the left column) select TennisLink, then click on "USTA League" photo and you get the League home page. On the right, under "League Players" select "Find a Rating". Then type in your USTA # or name and click on "Go". That's your 2010 year-end rating and the rating at which you will play during 2011. If under Year-end Date, it shows 12/31/09, that is your old rating and the new one has not been posted. 

    Unhappy with the rating? Well, to the right of the Year-end Date, it reads: Appeal rating. If that is NOT there, you can't appeal. If it is, click and follow directions.

    If you want to find the ratings of your teammates, instead of your name or USTA #, input your team number or their names individually. By selecting the dropdowns, you can find out all the new ratings for the entire area. Happy hunting.

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Season Runs Until Jan. 22

      Double Trouble #1 in Adult Team Tennis at Halfway Mark in Season

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The HHI Adult Team Tennis season is moving into its second half with 10 teams and 282 players in the all-mixed-doubles competition. Team matches consist of five mixed doubles courts, with rankings based on total game won.

    Here is the standing as of 11/28:  

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10:30 a.m. to Noon

     Quickstart Tennis *Free Day* Set for Kids 3 through 10 Saturday at Van Der Meer Tennis
        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Want to give your kids a constructive outlet for all that unbounded energy. Take 'em to Van Der Meer Tennis Center on DeAllyon Road Saturday for a Quickstart Tennis Free Day from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Ages 3 through 10 and all ability levels welcomed.

    Quickstart is a USTA nationwide program that utilizes short courts and special-bounce balls for the different age and ability levels. The shine-or-rain games will emphasize fundamental drills with demonstrations by the Tennis Center pros. Pizza, prizes and a variety of tennis-related activities will be included.

    To register or for more information, contact Krissy at 785-8388 or kristen@vdmtennis.com.

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Complete Schedule Including Playing Sites

     More Than 900 Players Get Ready for Start of Super Senior Sectionals Friday on HHI

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- South Carolina's first hosting of the Southern Section Super Senior Championships this weekend will bring the event to its birthplace on the 15th anniversary of what started on Hilton Head Island and has evolved into national championships. Van Der Meer Shipyard Racquet Club  will be headquarters site for the championships that also will have matches at Port Royal, Long Cove, Sea Pines Country Club, Palmetto Dunes and South Beach.

    More than 900 players will be competing from Southern's nine states -- Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, with 42 teams in 60s and 24 in 70s. Matches will begin at 8 a.m. Friday and continue through the weekend to Sunday finals.

    On Sept. 12, 1995, two teams of 65-and-older men played the first match in what has become part of the USTA national league program. Don Grider, current HHI senior men's coordinator, and MIckey Bearden, who now lives in Hot Springs Village AR, conceived the Super Senior idea and conducted the pilot program. The first full season had nine men's teams and two women's -- a total of 111 players. The 2010 Super Senior Leagues on HHI had 71 teams and 787 and neighboring Coastal Carolina had 47 teams and 484 players.

    As the Super Senior format grew, the age level was dropped to 62, then to a 60s and 70s level and, most recently, the 75s. Teams from HHI and Myrtle Beach staged a playoff in 1995 that expanded into a Carolina Challenge in '96 and then became sectionwide in 1999. In 2005, Super Seniors went to a national championship involving the 60s level. Fittingly a Hilton Head Island made it to that national final.

    To the number of men and women playing this year's championships, add the spouses, significant others and campfollowers and the Hilton Head Island economy will receive a $1.5 million holiday season "gift" from the tennis world ... just for this weekend. That will match the take from the USTA South Carolina Senior State Championships in May that has just renewed a three-year contact. The Southern Championship will return in December 2011.

    Here is the lineup of HHI and CCTA teams that will be in the hunt for Southern championships. Captains names are in (parentheses). "B" teams are those that received wild cards.

60M3.0 -- 8 teams -- SC(A)/CCHH Aces (Ivan Bennett); SC(B)/Sun City Baseliners (Frank Frankel)

60M4.0 -- 10 teams -- SC/Port Royal (Dave Partington)

60M4.5 -- 5 teams -- SC/Palmetto Dunes (Doug Luba)

60W3.0 -- 8 teams -- SC/Sun City Racquettes (Ruby Murray)

60W4.5 -- 11 teams -- SC(B)/Long Cove (Julie Vaglienti)

70M3.0 -- 5 teams -- SC(B)/Fiddler's Cove USTA B4's (Bob Costantino)

70M4.0 -- 9 teams -- SC(A)/Indigo Run (Doug Nabholz)

70W3.0 -- 5 teams -- SC/Sea Pines CC (Mary Demsey)

70W4.0 -- 5 teams -- SC(A)/Port Royal Senior Senoritas (Chris Iulo)

    Here is the schedule, as gleaned from TennisLink, involving the HHI and CCTA teams. Note that schedules do change occasionally; keep in contact with your team captain:

Friday the 3rd

8 a.m. -- 60M4.0 -- SC/Port Royal vs. GA/Atlanta Sandy Springs @VDM Shipyard

8 a.m. -- 60W3.0 -- SC/Sun City Racquettes vs. MS/Lake Village CC @Port Royal

9:30 a.m. -- 60W4.5 -- SC(B)/Long Cove vs. GA(A)/Savannah @Long Cove

9:30 a.m. -- 70M4.0 -- SC(A)/Indigo Run vs. GA/Savannah @Sea Pines CC

9:30 a.m. -- 70W3.0 -- SC/Sea Pines CC vs. GA/Columbus Cooper Creek @Palmetto Dunes

11 a.m. -- 60M3.0 -- SC(B)/Sun City Baseliners  vs. AR/Hot Springs Village @South Beach

11 a.m. -- 60M3.0 -- SC(A)/CCHH Aces  vs. KY/Villa Hills @South Beach

11 a.m. -- 70W4.0 -- SC(A)/Port Royal Senior Senoritas vs. GA/Columbus Cooper Creek @Palmetto Dunes

12:30 p.m.  -- 60M4.0 -- SC/Port Royal vs. AL/Birmingham @VDM Shipyard

12:30 p.m. -- 60M4.5 -- SC/Palmetto Dunes vs. AR/Pleasant Valley @Sea Pines CC

12:30 p.m. -- 60W3.0 -- SC/Sun City Racquettes vs. AR(B)/North Little Rock @Port Royal

2 p.m. -- 60W4.5 -- SC(B)/Long Cove vs. NC(B)/Greensboro @Long Cove

2 p.m. -- 70M3.0 -- SC(B)/Fiddler's Cove USTA B4's vs. GA/Savannah @Palmetto Dunes

2 p.m. -- 70W3.0 -- SC/Sea Pines CC vs. AL/Gulf Shores @Port Royal

3:30 p.m.  -- 60M3.0 -- SC(B)/Sun City Baseliners  vs. GA/Southern Crescent @South Beach

3:30 p.m. -- 60M3.0 -- SC(A)/CCHH Aces vs. LA/Shreveport Bossier @Sea Pines CC

3:30 p.m. -- 70W4.0 -- SC(A)/Port Royal Senior Senoritas vs. LA/Metairie @Palmetto Dunes

Saturday the 4th

8 a.m. -- 70M3.0 -- SC(B)/Fiddler's Cove USTA B4's vs. SC(A)/Columbia Rockbridge @Palmetto Dunes

8 a.m. -- 70W3.0 -- SC/Sea Pines CC vs. AR/Hot Springs Village @South Beach

9:30 a.m. -- 60W4.5 -- SC(B)/Long Cove vs. MS(A)/Edwards @South Beach

9:30 a.m. -- 70M4.0 -- SC(A)/Indigo Run vs. AR(B)/Hot Springs @VDM Shipyard

9:30 a.m. -- 70W4.0 -- SC(A)/Port Royal Senior Senoritas vs. AR/Little Rock @VDM Shipyard

9:30 a.m. -- 60M4.0 -- SC/Port Royal vs. LA(A)/Rajun Kajun @South Beach

9:30 a.m. -- 60M4.5 -- SC/Palmetto Dunes vs. KY/Louisville Boat Club @Port Royal

11 a.m. -- 60M3.0 -- SC(B)/Sun City Baseliners vs. NC/Southport @Palmetto Dunes

11 a.m. -- 60M3.0 -- SC(A)/CCHH Aces vs. TN/Telico Lake @VDM Shipyard

12:30 p.m. -- 60W3.0 -- SC/Sun City Racquettes vs. AL/Pelham @Palmetto Dunes

2 p.m. -- 60W4.5 -- SC(B)/Long Cove vs. AR/Van Buren @Long Cove

2 p.m. -- 70M3.0 -- SC(B)/Fiddler's Cove USTA B4's vs. AR/Hot Springs Village @Palmetto Dunes

3:30 p.m. -- 60M4.5 -- SC/Palmetto Dunes vs. NC/Charlotte Olde Providence @Port Royal

Sunday the 5th

8 a.m. -- 60W4.5 -- SC(B)/Long Cove vs. KY/Louisville @Long Cove

8 a.m. -- 60M4.0 -- SC/Port Royal vs. NC/Pinetop @VDM Shipyard

8 a.m. -- 70M4.0 -- SC/Indigo Run vs. AL/Mobile @Palmetto Dunes

11 a.m. -- 60M3.0 Final -- TBD vs. TBD @VDM Shipyard

11 a.m. -- 70M3.0 -- SC(B)/Fiddler's Cove USTA B4's vs. KY/High Lobbers @Palmetto Dunes

11 a.m. -- 70W3.0 -- SC/Sea Pines CC vs. MS/Indianola @Palmetto Dunes

11 a.m. -- 70W4.0 Final -- TBD vs. TBD @South Beach

11 a.m. -- 60W3.0 Final -- TBD vs. TBD @VDM Shipyard

12:30 p.m. -- 60M4.0 Final -- TBD vs. TBD @VDM Shipyard

12:30 p.m. -- 60M4.5 -- SC/Palmetto Dunes vs. GA/Augusta @Palmetto Dunes

12:30 p.m. -- 70M4.0 Final -- TBD vs. TBD @VDM Shipyard

 2 p.m. -- 60W4.5 Final -- TBD vs. TBD @VDM Shipyard

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