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Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011         Vol. X,  No. 11                  Winner of the South Carolina Media of the Year Award                                    Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

USTA SCoop -- Check out the new feature on the USTA South Carolina website

Click on this link: http://www.southcarolina.usta.com/news/the_usta_scoop

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'Luck of the Irish' Entry Form is attached to a TENNIS E-News email blast going out today. If you do NOT receive it and want one, email your request to banana@hargray.com.

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Player Draft for Teams

     HHI Pros Plan Prize-Money League To Start in April

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- Hilton Head Island tennis pros are organizing a Spring prize-money league that will play Fridays at 6 p.m. on three courts, with matches rotating sites each week. Free admission to spectators will give local and visiting fans a chance to see their pros in competitive action. Matches will begin April 29. 

    HHI Tennis Pros Association President Lee Holyoak and Vice President Matt Wuller foresee a six-week season, with a playoff between the top two teams. The local league is being patterned after Charleston Pro League that has been successfully running for a number of years. HHI league players have had a chance to see some of those matches that are played as State League Championships entertainment at Family Circle Tennis Center. Local pros can visit the Charleston website -- www.cptltennis.com -- to get see how that league works. Here is how Holyoak and Wuller see the HHI league shaping up:

    Four HHI teams will be formed through a draft comprised of nine active players per team. The season will consist of six regular season matches plus a final between the two top teams. Matches will consist of three doubles matches to be played on Friday evenings beginning at 6 pm at a different venue each week. Entry fee is $100 per pro and prize money will be paid to players for each individual win ($30/pro/win). The league championship team also will receive a large payout to be determined by the amount of sponsorship money received. The league will be non-profit with all monies raised going toward prize money  minus operational costs.
    Sponsorships will be the key to success of the league, the organizers said. Sponsor packages have been set up, including: Head sponsor - $1,000 and (4) Team sponsors - $500.

4.0 Men's Interclub Final Standings

    Port Royal Wins Team Championship, Losing Just 3 Courts in 12 matches

3.5 Men's Interclub Final Standings

     Belfair Defeats Moss Creek 2-1 for the 3.5 Interclub Championship

Play Starts Friday

     TAHHI Classic, Daufuskie Make for Very Busy Tennis Weekend

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- The TAHHI Tennis Classic at Palmetto Dunes, rain-postponed from last week, and USTA-sanctioned Daufuskie Island Adult Championships will be joined by return to USTA Adult League play for a very busy weekend on HHI and Coastal Carolina courts.

    Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center will host the 11th annual TAHHI event that includes with rated men's and women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles divisions. Rated categories will be 2.5 through 5.0 and Open. The Daufuskie Championships include age and rating divisions and will be played at Haig Point Club.

    Complicating match times for the weekend is the fact that USTA League Adult Division had open dates last weekend so players could enter the TAHHI Classic with no conflict with the team league schedule. All the teams are back on schedule Saturday and Sunday. Coordinators are trying to coordinate times and allow match switching if conflicts can't otherwise be alleviated. As usual, all shifting of times and dates are to get okay from level coordinators. (Coordinator list below)

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Mar. 4-6 Championships

     Entries Open for 28th Annual Luck of the Irish Doubles at Palmetto Dunes

        HILTON HEAD ISLAND SC (TENNIS E-News) -- We've been playing The Irish for 27 years and we'll be back at it again March 4-6, when the popular men's, women's and mixed doubles take to the courts in the "Luck of the Irish" Tournament at Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center.

    Play will be in rating divisions of 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0 and Open. Entry fee is $45 per player if entering one event and $55 if entering two. Entry deadline is Sunday, Feb. 27, at 5 p.m. Missing that, you may be able to get a late entry, but it will cost $10 extra.

    Giuseppi's at Shelter Cove Plaza will do player hospitality. Continental breakfasts, fruit all day, beer and soda and a tournament gift will be included with the entry fee. Door prizes also will be drawn throughout the tournament.

    The 'Luck of the Irish' entry form is attached to a TENNIS E-News email blast going out today. If you do NOT receive it and want one, email your request to banana@hargray.com.

    For additional information, contact the Pro Shop at 785-1152. 
 

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HHI Spring League Level Coordinators

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