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OCTOBER 1, 2014
Tennis Clinic Coming Up
Cape Breton Post October 1, 2014 - Community Post
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
Indoor tennis tournament hopes
to highlight need for facility
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T.J. Colello - Cape Breton Post
Eric Krause of Sydney,
chair of the proposed
Cromarty Community Indoor Tennis Centre, is
shown at the Cromarty Tennis Club in Sydney on
Monday. The club is hosting the second annual
CCITC National Living Healthy Senior Age
Invitational Team Tennis Doubles Tournament
this weekend at the Cape Breton Health Recreation Complex.
T.J. Colello
Published on November 24, 2014
Eleven teams to compete in two-day event at Cape
Breton Health Recreation Complex
SYDNEY — The group behind the proposed
Cromarty Community Indoor Tennis Centre is hosting a weekend tournament with the
hopes of highlighting the need for an off-season facility.
The second annual CCITC National Living Healthy
Senior Age Invitational Team Tennis Doubles Tournament will be played Saturday
and Sunday at the Cape Breton Health Recreation Complex dome. Unlike last year’s
inaugural event, this year’s tournament will be held indoors on the artificial
turf.
Organizer and CCITC chair Eric Krause said an
indoor tennis program was held at the multi-purpose dome last winter and had a
positive turnout.
“It’s a different surface,” he said. “Last year,
we had winter tennis here all year and it took a bit for players to get used to
the surface. It’s a different bounce and a different game.
“It’ll actually even it out a bit more. It’ll
take a bit away from the big servers and give a little bit to the faster
runners. It’s not a hard court. It’s pretty soft. It’s like a slow grass.”
Four indoor nets will be set up for this year’s
event. It will be the first one sanctioned by Tennis Nova Scotia.
Along with tournament play, children’s clinics
will also be held this weekend. Krause said he has about 50 kids registered, up
from 30 last year.
“The main group right now that’s supporting
indoor is retirees,” he said. “What we have to get is the younger crowd.
Retirees can go any time from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but the younger groups, ages
4-6, there weren’t enough children that we could put into a program to justify
the health complex giving us those solid hours. This is what we’re trying to
convince them with.”
The tournament will feature a double round-robin
tournament in the senior men’s division. Defending champions Bill Buckland of
Sydney and Norman Ross of Sydney Mines are looking for back-to-back titles.
The senior women will play a single round robin.
Claire Rogers of Blacketts Lake teamed up Helen Xia of Sydney River last year to
win the division. Rogers is back this year with new teammate Kathy MacIntyre of
Westmount.
“Originally, it was geared to seniors, but
they’ve opened it up to 40-and-older just to get out and be active,” said
Rogers. “Tennis is a wonderful sport for that you can play it a long time. I’m
sure that some of those players will be in their 70s who could be playing.”
An under-25 division will include three teams
taking part, and will include Cromarty instructor Kevin Hall among other
participants.
Competition will follow children’s clinics
starting at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Teams begin at 11 a.m. and wrap up
with the final matches at 3:30 p.m. each day.
Tournament Teams
Senior Women
• Tanya Fifield & Jane Fifield
• Shirley Hodgson & Carol Richardson
• Kelly MacNeil & Kathy MacNeil
• Claire Rogers & Kathy MacIntyre
• Christina Lamey & Belinda Campbell
Senior Men
• Bill Buckland & Norman Ross
• Kevin Thomas & Greg Spencer
• Peter Cloake & Mark Steadman
Under-25
• U25 Team 1
• U25 Team 2
• U25 Team 3
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DECEMBER 1, 2014
SYDNEY — New champions
were crowned on Sunday at the second annual CCITC National Living
Healthy Senior Age Invitational Team Tennis Doubles Tournament at
the Cape Breton Health and Recreation Complex.
In the women’s senior division,
the mother/daughter team of Jane and Tanya Fifield defeated the duo of
Claire Rogers, part of last year’s championship team, and new partner Kathy
MacIntyre, by scores of 6-1, 6-4.
The men’s senior division
titles went to Peter Cloake and Mark Steadman, who outlasted defending
champions Bill Buckland and Norman Ross in a three-set battle. The set
scores were 3-6, 7-5 and 10-5.
Cape Breton Post, December
1, 2014
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Cape Breton Post, December 17, 2014