Congrats to the Hinsdale Tournament Winners

Open A finals
championship - Jim Bishop & Jeff Byrnes defeated Jim Garber & Paul Garvin

consolation - Vince Lombardi & Ted Tuerk defeated Doug DeClue & Matt Kinst


Open B finals
championship - Bob Gray & Scott Pfisterer defeated Mark Bronson & Marcus Zeilstra


Open C finals
Kevin Knapp & Brian Moncrief defeated Adam Fromm & Chris Porter




Women's A finals
championship - Mary Doten & Alison Kelley defeated Gillian Climo & Patti Coyle







Women's B finals
championship winners - Ashley Killpack & Jackie Scheer

HPTA Mission Statement

The Hinsdale Platform Tennis Association (HPTA) is an Illinois not-for-profit established in 2004 to serve its community nearly 1,000 players from three Hinsdale area clubs. Its all-volunteer board is elected by membership vote.

The HPTA’s mission is to:
• Promote the enthusiasm among current players for the sport;
• Increase the participation in platform tennis among all types of people;
• Be advocates for the interests of the platform tennis community.

We accomplish this mission by:
• Ongoing conversations with our fellow paddle players about what works and what doesn’t; and by developing a diverse board that represents the whole community.
• Working with our fellow paddle players, our member clubs, the Chicago platform tennis league, the APTA, and the Village of Hinsdale on behalf of our members; HPTA Board members Bill O’Brien and Paul Wiggin currently serve on the CPTC and APTA boards.
• Running dozens of events each season, including free clinics for juniors, a house league for women, the Hinsdale Challenge (APTA national ranking tournaments), the Billy O Red Zone Tournament, and the Hinsdale Open;
• Creating an offering of free clinics, beginner coaching sessions, and professional classes that are open to the public;
• Funding, building, expanding, and maintaining the platform tennis facility at KLM, in cooperation with Village staff;
• Communicating through the www.hinsdalepaddle.com web site and other means;
• Operating platform tennis programs at KLM under a license agreement with the Village of Hinsdale.

Annual support from Hinsdale players is vital to our success:
• Hinsdale Park District players currently contribute $35 annually; Hinsdale Golf Club and Salt Creek Club members contribute $10 annually. We hope you agree that the HPTA is a great value!

APTA Nationals - Friday Update

The APTA live scoring system is updated throughout the nationals for tracking your favorite teams.

Photos from Sunday morning's matches -- Women's finals and Men's semi-finals:


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Our Friday updates for Hinsdale women:

Doten-Nusslock (9) reached quarters with a three set win over Lemery-Ohlmuller (7).

Climo-McNitt (11) reached quarters with a three set win over Mandell-Viant (6).

Schwartz-Sheldon (10) reached the round of 16, but lost to Cottingham-Hayward (5) in the quarters.

D'Alise-Queenan win two opening matches before losing to # 3 seed Flynn-Tarzian.

Goldberg-Tritt win two opening matches before losing to # 1 seed Prop-Schneebeck.


Our Friday updates for Hinsdale men:

Engel-Martin (15) reach round of 32.

Garvin-Stapleton win opening match before losing to Ohlmuller-Schmidgall.

Cunnington-Schwartz win opening match before losting to Marino-Uihlein (6).

Goldman-Usher enter backdraw with first round loss to Cosimano-Haller (9).

Byrnes-Struck enter backdraw with first round loss to Reed-Witsken.

Leonard-Williams enter backdraw with first round loss to Atkinson-Crosta.

President's Cup action in Chicago today

Both the men's and women's teams from Region V (which includes Chicago) prevailed in today's team competition:

Men's Scores

Women's Scores


You can follow the scores on-line for PC and the APTA Nationals. Don't know anything about the APTA President's Cup? Here's the scoop:

The President’s Cup was established in 1978 in order to create a national competition for amateur paddlers. Platform tennis had begun to be increasingly professionalized, especially in the East, and good regional players were losing interest in this type of competition.

Increasingly, separate regional tournaments were held for these non-professionals (defined as not nationally ranked.) Each Region held its own qualifying tournament to determine which four teams from its Region would be sent to the President’s Cup.

Hinsdale MIXED Tournament

A fun and competitive night of paddle was had by all at the Annual Hinsdale Mixed Doubles Tournament on Saturday, February 26th. Tricia Enright returned after missing last year due to injury – to reclaim the B draw crown with her husband Bill. They won a hard fought – and wet – finals match over Cathleen and Mark Robinson. The next runners up were Bridget and Mike Keifer who beat Kristen Klebenow and Cristophe Jeannin in another exciting match. Lots of fun was had both on and off the courts as we mixed with both old and new friends, welcoming Pat and Camey Walker and Chris and Carol Wittemann to their first Mixed Doubles event.

For the A draw we had some bad luck in timing this year – as the entire Usher clan was skiing in Colorado knocking out half the draw. We ended up with only two teams so we had an exhibition final where Mary and Gary Doten prevailed against John and Margaret Hawn.

We look forward to seeing all these players again on the courts during the women’s and men’s Hinsdale tournament on March 18th and 19th.

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