Salt Creek Women's Platform Tennis League

8 Teams, minimum of 5 ladies per team (2 doubles courts per match)
Total games wins

$150.00 members
$185.00 non-members

7 weeks, with a 2 week playoff

Finals will be held in the evening with an end of the season party-- bbq and drinks included

Matches will be held on Mondays:
11:30 -1:00 pm
1:00 – 2:30 pm

Please email Paul Garvin with questions or to sign up, and let us let us know who you would like to be on your team. We will assign team captains. Members may invite non-members to participate.

paul.garvin@comcast.net

**Babysitting will be available… Advance notice required…charges will apply… further details TBA**

CPTC Men's Series Tournaments on January 16-17

SERIES 4-6; 7-10; 11-14 and 15-18 TOURNAMENTS

ENTRY DEADLINE: Monday, January 11, 2010.

LUNCH: 11:00-1:30 PM at Glen View Club -- and that is where you will pick up your favor.

FORMAT: There will be 4 Individual Tournaments. 3 matches are guaranteed (assuming an even number of teams). Players are limited to 1 tournament and are not allowed to play "Down". However, players may play "UP" by entering a higher tournament if they wish. NOTE: Players who are rostered on teams at 2 different clubs (for example, Series 6 at one club and Series 7 at another club) must use the higher Series (skill-wise, not numerically) to determine which tournament they are eligible for. And, paddle or tennis pros are not allowed to enter regardless of where they are rostered.

*** NOTE: Players in 11-14 and the 15-18 tournaments do not have to be on a team roster to enter. (Social Players may play in these divisions.)

Marino/Uihlein win First-Ever Hinsdale Challenge

Pictured left to right: APTA Region V President Bill O'Brien, finalists Scott Bondurant and Mark Johnson, Men's Tournament Director Van Stapleton, Champions Mike Marino and Brian Uihlein, and Women's Tournament Director Mary Doten.



Finals were played at 10 AM on Sunday at the Salt Creek Club. Top-Seeds Mike Marino & Brian Uihlein defeated Scott Bondurant & Mark Johnson in the finals, 7-6, 6-1.

Mark and Todd Schaefer defeated Clay Leonard & Bob Schultz, 6-3, 6-2 to win the Consolation Bracket.

Jeff Byrnes & Chris Struck defeated Matt Garavaglia & Jay Woldenberg, 6-1, 7-5 to win the 16 Reprieve.

Jeronie Barnes & Nate Parsons defeated Denny English & Brian Heil to win the Quarter Reprieve.

Kevin Schwartz & Pat Usher defeated Doug DeClue & Matt Kinst, 6-3, 6-0 in the Last Chance Final.


Full results posted here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tsZ8E49H18dkFHcj2_PvIHA&output=pdf



Slideshow from at SCC (more to come so check back)


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Men's Draw for Hinsdale Challenge

Hinsdale Teams win the APTA Junior Tour 2009

Bobby Alter and Harold Martin won the 14s draw.

Andrew and Nathan Wiggin won the 12s draw.

Patented Paddle Accessory

Perfect gift for a paddle fanatic? This item will run you $29.99 at Red Envelope.

Hinsdale Challenge Entry

The Hinsdale Challenge is a new tournament this season designed to attract the region's top-ranked teams to Hinsdale Golf Club, Katherine Legge, and Salt Creek Club. The men's draw will be played on December 12-13, 2009. The women's draw will take place in February 19-20.

In an interesting twist, the Men's draw will accommodate 32 teams -- 28 taken first-come, first-served from the APTA team rankings. The remaining four spots will feature local teams who are chosen through a qualifier draw to be played on December 5.

The entry is available here.

Red Zone A Draw goes to Cunnington and Schultz

The top-seeded team of Mark Cunnington and Bob Schultz prevailed over Jeff Byrnes and Paul Wiggin in the final of the A Draw on Sunday afternoon. The finalists are pictured here with "Billy O", of course.

Big B Draw at the Billy O goes to O'Hara and Weed

From L to R: Mike Vidmar, Brian Hammersley, Rich O’Hara, Brian Weed.

Doug Brown described the B Draw this way:

"On Sunday morning the expanded B Draw was played at both KLM and Salt Creek despite a little lightning. The LCS at KLM was played by Vidmar and Hammersley who prevailed over Gurgone and LaPointe. At Salt Creek it was O'Hara and Weed in 3 sets over Casey and Kreischer. In the B Draw world championships it took O'Hara and Weed 2 long sets to defeat "Vid and Hammer".

At the "Billy O" Red Zone Tournament

Kitty Delaney and Chrissy Zacijeck prevailed at the "Billy O" Red Zone Tournament on Friday, winning in round-robin style play. Here they're looking fabulous in the haute couture red zone jackets designed by Chanel.

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The Future of Paddle Seen at the C Draw Final of the "Billy O" Tournament

Congrats to Martin and Matt Joyce, who won the C draw of the 2009 Billy O tournament, beating Andrew and Paul Wiggin in the final, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Update: Red Zone Tournament Entries

Doug Brown reports that the entries for the 5th annual "Billy O" red zone platform tennis tournament are filling in.

The Open C draw is full.
The Open B draw will be expanded to a 16 draw to accomodate all of the interest.
One spot remains for the Open A draw.
Places remain for the women's draw.

Hinsdale Teams storm Milwaukee

Congrats to tthe winners at this weekend's Milwaukee Open:

Women's: Mary Doten & Christine Schwartz
Men's: Marty Engel & Wade Martin

Eight Friday Nights of Mixed Doubles this Season at KLM

The HPTA is looking for hosts and co-hosts to organize Mixed Doubles Nights at KLM this season.

KLM courts are reserved for the following Friday evenings:

October 23
November 6
November 20
December 4
January 8
January 22
February 5
March 5

Contact Cathleen Robinson at cath_chgo@yahoo.com for more information.

Hinsdale Men's Matches to Watch

Forget the MLB and the NFL. The matches to watch are:

• Tonight's series II match with Hinsdale Park District "traveling to" Hinsdale Golf Club



• Next Wednesday (10/21) series I match with the Hinsdale JV team playing varsity at Salt Creek Club

APTA Exhibition - Friday 8 PM

6 PM

APTA free beginner clinic

( space is limited - contact paul.garvin@comcast.net )

8 PM

APTA free exhibition

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Dave Ohlmuller & Mary Doten
vs.
Todd Ward & Sally Cottingham

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Salt Creek Club

840 N Madison St, Hinsdale

Maintaining the Heaters at Burns Field

Many thanks to Gina Hassett, Parks Director at the Village, for this good news:

"We are going to switch out the heater switches at Burns. The work should not affect play.

"When completed the switches will be like the ones at KLM therefore they will shut off and save gas and the life of the heaters. Also one heater has been replaced and the others have been checked out."

Fifth Annual Premier Cup Tournament

The 5th Annual Premier Cup is set to take place at Sunset Ridge Country Club in Chicago on October 10th & 11th.

Sunset Ridge boasts one of the nicer Platform facilities around and is proud to be this year's host which has the strongest field to date.

www.sunsetridgecc.org
2100 Sunset Ridge Rd Northfield, IL 60093-1063
(847) 446-5222

Saturday's round robin play will start @ 9 AM and Sunday's placement matches will begin @ 10 AM.

Peter Berka, Director of Racquet Sports at Sunset Ridge along with Jason Gray and tournament sponsors Premier Platform Tennis and Wilson Racquet Sports are proud to announce this year's field and invite all Platform enthusiasts to be apart of the exciting action throughout the weekend!

The group pairings will be officially announced Friday, October 9th at the official draw party to be held at the Wilson Global Headquarters.

1.Scott Mansager/Chris Gambino
2.Steve Derose/Jon Lubow
3.Mike Cochrane/Mike Stulac
4.Mike Marino/Brian Uihlein
5.Denny English/Brian Heil
6.Brian O'Connoer/Drew Broderick
7.Peter Berka/Drew Eberly
8.Scott Bondurant/Mark Johnson

Along with the event, the APTA will be organizing an evening of clinics and an exhibition at Salt Creek Country Club in an attempt to help promote and grow the game and help promote this year's event on Friday, October 9th.

For more info on the event at Salt Creek please contact the APTA and for the Premier Cup please contact Jason Gray(FBRacquetSports@hotmail.com) or Peter Berka(PBerka@SunsetRidgeCC.org).

Hinsdale Park Hours

Reminder:

Platform tennis hours at KLM are 8 AM until 10:30 PM
Burns Field hours are sunrise to 10:00 PM

In deference to the homeowners in Burr Ridge, players are asked to use courts 1 and 2 whenever possible in late evening matches at KLM. Exit the hut and park by 10:30 PM.

Kerry Koranda Nets One

This time it was a Musky rather than a Viking.