news of champions & finalists

2010

Six Jr. Team Tennis Teams Crowned Champions
At 2010 USTA Southern Jr. Team Tennis Section Championships

MOBILE, ALA. – Sunday, August 22, 2010 – Teams from four states were won the USTA Southern Jr. Team Tennis Section Championships 2010.


Georgia and North Carolina had two champions and North Carolina also had one finalist. South Carolina and Tennessee had a champion each.


Four teams from the 14-and-under and 18-and-under levels won the right to represent the USTA Southern Section at the USTA Jr. Team Tennis National Championships 2010 in October.


Competition ran from Friday, Aug. 20 through Sunday, Aug. 22 at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center, known as the world’s largest public tennis facility with 60 courts.


LEVEL

CHAMPION

FINALIST

SCORE

18-and-under Advanced

Wilmington, N.C.
Manager: Jon Ingham

Little Rock, Ark.
Manager: Mynra Olava

39-15

18-and-under Intermediate

Knoxville, Tenn.
Manager: Charlotte Ott

Cary, N.C.
Manager: Kevin Caccia

37-17

14-and-under Advanced

Alpharetta, Ga.
Manager: Adriana Bhole

Birmingham, Ala.
Manager: John Crawford

259-244

14-and-under Intermediate

Athens, Ga.
Manager: Mary McElhannon

Mt. Juliet, Tenn.
Manager: Robert Wood

37-23

12-and-under Advanced

Aiken, S.C.
Manager: John Tiffany

Ocean Springs, Miss.
Manager: Lance St. Amant

220-196

12-and-under Intermediate

Charlotte, N.C.
Manager: Dwayne Thomas

Columbia, S.C.
Manager: Heather Presnal

30-26


Teams represented the nine states in USTA Southern, by far the largest of the 17 sections in the country.


Teams play boys’ singles, girls’ singles, boys’ doubles, girls’ doubles, mixed doubles in each match. Advanced players are NTRP 3.5 and above. Intermediate players are NTRP 3.0 or below. The following levels were decided by round-robin play: 14-and-under Advanced and 12-and-under Advanced.


Approximately 28,000 or 40 percent of all Jr. Team Tennis players in the nation play in the Southern Section.


National championships will be played in Surprise, Ariz. with the 14s competing Oct. 21-24 and the 18s competing Oct. 28-31. There are no national championships for the 12-and-under age bracket.