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The Tennis4All Board is excited to announce a Tennis4All club championship tournament, August 20-22 at the Beren Tennis Center at Harvard University!

The tournament will include both singles and doubles draws for all levels (Open, A, B, C, and D).  Draws will be either single-elimination or round-robin, depending on the number of entries for each event.

You must be a current Tennis4All member to play in this tournament.

Additionally, we have 2 pairs of tickets for 2 sessions of this year’s Laver Cup (September 24-26 at the TD Garden) to raffle off!  Just by entering the tournament, you will be entered in the drawing.  You will also have an opportunity to purchase additional raffle tickets during the tournament.

Cost is $70, which includes entry for singles and/or doubles, balls, trophies for winners,  one raffle ticket, and social events (TBD).

See the event page for additional information and registration form.

If you have any questions, please send an email to glta@tennis4all.org.

We hope to see you there!

Tired of your backhand volley? Wish you could serve like Serena? Join Tennis4All for a weekend tennis camp August 6-8 at the Cliff Drysdale Tennis School at Stratton Mountain in southern Vermont. You’ll get 6 hours of tennis drills & instruction in one weekend including a private lesson. All while hanging out in the Green Mountains of Vermont in the summer. Get more info and register for the weekend at Weekend Tennis Getaway

How would you like to improve your tennis game while hanging out with your Tennis4All friends in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont? Tennis4All is excited to announce our Weekend Tennis Getaway at Stratton Mountain August 6-8. The weekend will include 7.5 hours of tennis, including two 2.5-hour group clinics, a 1-hour private lesson, and a 90 minute round robin mixer on Friday evening. And if you can handle that much tennis, there is also a bonus option to compete in a ProAm tournament Saturday afternoon with 4-person team including a tennis pro.

All members and tennis levels are welcome. Spots will be filled on a first come, first served basis; registration and full payment confirms your spot. For more information and to register, see Weekend Tennis Getaway

Hi Tennis4All members!

For those who have already renewed their membership prior to the June 1st date, thank you!!!

This is just a reminder for those who have not renewed your membership for June 1st. You can still log into the Tennis4All website, but you will no longer have access to members-only pages…such a member directory, summer doubles and challenge ladder.
This is also a reminder that if you signed up for the summer challenge ladder you must renew your membership as well…don’t make me hunt you down!

We had about 200 members prior to June 1st and about half have renewed already.

So what are you waiting for! Log into the website Tennis4All.org , click on membership and for just $35 you’re good for another year!

Thanks!

Brian Bartoloni

Membership Director

Tennis4All

This will be my last message to the whole membership for a while.

I did want to let everyone know that you may join the ladder ANY TIME this summer. So, if June is a little too soon for whatever reason, join us in July or August. There is always space for you on the ladder.

Official matches may begin this Monday the 24th of May and the ladder goes to September 26. Review the rules around who you can challenge etc.

Report scores to me and please make sure to make it clear Who challenged Who initially as that makes a difference in points. (you get 2 for initiating a challenge and 1 for saying Yes)

Cheers

-Longlegs

Hi Tennis4All members,

It is that time of year, time to renew your Tennis4All membership! Your current membership ends May 31st. We did waive membership renewal last year due to COVID-19 given that we could not host league play and other events.

However, we just wrapped up a successful singles league season and are about to kick off both summer doubles and the challenge ladder. Unfortunately the Boston Tennis Classic this summer was canceled, BUT we are hoping to put together a T4All tournament at Harvard University later this summer.

Lots of upcoming tennis action so it is important to renew your membership. Members will have access to singles league, doubles league, socials, challenge ladder, Atlantic Cup (hopefully happening later this year in Philadelphia!) plus other exciting events in the works.

For those who already renewed your membership with sign up for summer doubles or the challenge ladder, thank you…you do not need to renew until June 1, 2022

For everyone else please renew your membership over the next few weeks so you stay on the email list for communications for all T4All events. Just go to Tennis4All.org, log in, click the members tab and you will see a link to renew your membership. The price is still just $35 for your yearly membership.

Thank you!

Brian Bartoloni

Membership Director

Tennis4All

 

I am pleased to announce that the Summer Challenge Ladder is already chock full of players, 21 current rungs are taken and there is always room for more!

A couple of reminders, as per the rules: you may challenge anyone who is 6 places above you or 4 places below you at the time of the challenge. I put that in italics because sometimes someone might end up dropping or rising and look to be ‘out of range’ by the time you play, so the important part is that at the time of the challenge, you are in each other’s range.

One thing I see that is NOT on the official rules is that there is no official rule about a third set. What I have found best is to speak with your opponent before the match begins and decide in advance what you’ll do if you split the first two sets i.e. play a third OR play a 10 point super tie breaker. Once in a while you will not agree (one player prefers to play a third, the other a super tie) In that event, I have found ye’ old classic coin toss to be the decider. I also think if you are playing at a venue that seems busy, people are waiting etc…be kind and play a Super Tie breaker. Again, there is no official rule there but…

Happy weekend! Good weather to practice!