Feb 18, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
by Charlie Michele Over President’s Day weekend, The Tuxedo Club hosted the 117thGold Racquets, as well as the US Pro Singles Rackets Championship. Event Chairs Kim Kilgore, Laura Tillsley and Charlie Michele pulled out all of the stops with a full itinerary. On Friday night, there was a delicious pasta bar for players and guests served at the Tennis House. The galleries were packed throughout the evening, with many patrons utilizing the Club-brewed “Tuxedo Ale” on draft to loosen up the vocal chords. Matches went well into the night with the last tennis ball being hit just before 1:00am. With… Read the Full Story >
Feb 11, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
by John Lumley We had a fantastic turnout for the 2019 Noll Cup with twenty entrants ready to fight it out for the 30-39 level championship. The first round matches were pretty straight forward with the first battle of the day going to Morgan Purvis taking it five-games all 40-all against Dick Tanfield in the final set. The other barn burner of the day was between Charles Buaron and Anders Cohen, with Buaron taking it 5-6 6-3 6-5! Saturdays play saw the no.1 seed Max Drake go down in a tight match to Morgan Purvis 6-5 6-4. Both played superb… Read the Full Story >
Feb 11, 2019 | National League
On Thursday, February 7th, the Racquet Club of Chicago hosted the New England team in the debut of the 2019 USCTA Court Tennis National League. A partisan crowd of 75 members was keen to cheer on Chicago to victory over an in-form New England team. The first match would see the #1s face off–Local pro-Steve Virgona taking on Newport’s Nick Howell. The match started fairly even with both players hitting the ball crisply and finding their targets. At 3-all in the first set, there was a slight momentum shift as Steve somewhat fortuitously managed to win a point defending a… Read the Full Story >
Feb 10, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
By A Supporter Of The Ladies’ Game The 2019 Anne Boleyn was graciously hosted by the Racquet Club of Philadelphia over the weekend February 9/10. Eleven ladies did battle over the two days and thanks to John Lumley’s creativity with the draw they all were able to spend lots of time on court. Saturday’s matches were played in a round robin format with all the competitors dueling in first to six games contests. Rachel Heslop and Linda Rice secured themselves top seeding for Sunday’s knockout stage by winning all their matches. However, Mr. Lumley’s format meant that all the players… Read the Full Story >
Feb 8, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
2019 Greevy Cup @ The Tuxedo Club The 2019 Greevy Cup (for handicaps 20-29) was dominated by entrants from the home club of Tuxedo, with 7 of the 10 entrants from Tuxedo. The (4) semi-finalists were all expected based upon their handicaps, and represented (4) different clubs. Prince’s Court & Radley – Benedict Yorston Boston Tennis & Racquet Club – Ben Hudson The Tuxedo Club – Nick Sonne New York Racquet & Tennis Club – Matt Mackin The first semi-final pitted Yorston and Hudson, and the fans were treated to a nip and tuck first set with Yorston getting over… Read the Full Story >
Feb 7, 2019 | National League
Barney Tanfield (NY) vs. Josh Dodgson (TUX) 6-4, 6-4 James Stout (NY) vs. Camden Riviere (TUX) 1-6, 5-6 Barney Tanfield & James Stout (NY) vs Josh Dodgson & Camden Riviere (TUX) 7-8 MATCH SUMMARY by Orlando Mallinson On Wednesday, February 6thThe Racquet and Tennis Club hosted a National League match against the Tuxedo team. All players went into the match looking to open their accounts and put themselves in a strong position to qualify for the end-of-season final. In the pre-match build-up, a group of twenty R&TC members and guests took to the court to compete in the USCTA target… Read the Full Story >
Feb 7, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
by Arthur Horowitz The 2019 Hickey Cup, 60s level tournament, was hosted by the Georgian Court University over February 1stweekend. The tournament drew a field of 16 players from Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New York, Tuxedo, Newport, and Georgian Court University. The Philadelphia players dominated the tournament play, but it was also the impressive debut of a number of Georgian Court athletes and athletic coaches. Kyle Reap from the Racquet Club of Philadelphia won the tournament by defeating Dave Christensen from Tuxedo in an outstanding 6-3, 5-6, 6-3 match. Both Kyle and Dave played with skill and determination. Dave often dominated the… Read the Full Story >
Feb 4, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
by Nick Howell Newport hosted the Burke Cup this year. We had twelve entries with six from Newport and the other six coming from DC & Boston. The Burke Cup kicked off with a great match between two of our members — Sewall Hodges & James Chamberlain. James is college student and the grandson of former NTC president, John Murphy. He has been playing the last few months and it’s hard to keep him off the court. Despite James being eight points weaker on handicap, he really made Sewall work hard to grind out a win 6-4 6-5. Four more… Read the Full Story >
Feb 1, 2019 | USCTA News
By John Lumley A Bathurst Academy training camp was held on December 15 and 16 at Georgian Court University (GCU) and Philadelphia. The camp was led by John Lumley. The first day was held at GCU, where John met up with Peter Cipriano (New York), Alex Spence and Todd Meringoff (both Boston). After a quick warm-up, John led the players through a series of doubles drills. Mixing up the teams, John created different scenarios encouraging the players to move and stand in more aggressive positions. It was very helpful to see how court positioning can allow a team to be… Read the Full Story >
Jan 21, 2019 | Tournament Results, US Events
From a keen observer…. The Etchebaster trophy was keenly contested at the Racquet Club of Chicago from January 18th-20th 2019. Although it was very cold with lots of snow falling over the weekend, we had 5 players coming in from New York and Washington. There was also a strong field of Chicago players and some notable performances go to Ben Olson and Jonathan Lewis who both had good runs to the semi-final. Chapin Lee, who was on the wrong end of a three-set thriller in the main event, went on to win the back-draw final against Trout Kinney 8-6. The… Read the Full Story >
