The Prescott Tournament Results

Tennis Talk
By Joy Rem and Betty Olsen
Preview of The Villager 3/29/24 publicationOur first tournament of the season, The Prescott tournament, was held on Saturday, March 16.  We had a beautiful day and 32 tennis players signed up.  We also had many spectators in the viewing stand.  They enjoyed watching the tennis while enjoying the wonderful spread provided by the hospitality committee, made up of Nancy Domingo and Andrea Alvarez.
The registration fee was a $15 donation to VMA.  We also received some extra donations from tennis club members.

The tournament ran from 9am until 1 pm.  Each player played for 2 hours with a 1 hour break in between sessions. The players were divided into two groups (grouped red and group white).  Players played 12 games, 4 games with each player in the group or 20 minutes with each partner, whichever came first.  Each player had a printed card to keep track of the games they won with each partner.  At the end of play the games were added to determine the winners.  Here are the lucky winners.:

Red group (men)

1st place:  Marty Funcell and Paul Spisar (tie)
2nd place:  Brett Foreman

Red group (women)
1st place:  Karen Hillis
2nd place:  Mitzi Macon, Lolivic Shaw and Sharon Bartells (tie)
White group(men)
1st place:  Jay Desai
2nd place:  Don Clarke
3rd place:  Randy Shaw

White group(women) – sorry no photo 🙁
1st place:  Nancy Domingo
2nd place:  Shirley Mariani
3rd place:  Tina Parsley

Prizes were awarded to the top three winners in each group. The tennis club generously donated over $700 to the VMA through this event
A special thanks to Joy Rem and Cheryl Diltz, Tournament Directors, for such a well organized Prescott Tournament.

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Tennis is in full swing for the Villages Tennis Club.  The men have registered a USTA team and would enjoy a filled viewing stand of supporters for their home matches all at 3:30pm: Sunday, March 24, Saturday, April 6, Sunday, April 14, Sunday, April 28, and Saturday, May 11. Also, the women’s USTA team has 2 home matches left:  Monday, March 25 and Monday, April 8.