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.