2017 U.A. SPRING OPEN - COGP

The Upper Arlington Spring Open will be held on Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30 at Upper Arlington High School, address listed above, with map. REPORT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR MATCH AND COURT ASSIGNMENTS !! Jones Middle School and Hastings Middle School may be also used for some matches, depending on the number of matches.

The modified schedule for concluding this tournament this tournament has been posted since Wednesday night. A few of the matches may be slightly delayed due to Upper Arlington being one of four boys HS sectional sites. As their matches conclude, we will have access to all ten courts to conclude the tournament. Remember we are playing main draws including 3rd place matches as well as back draws in all divisions. Thank you for your support!

The UA Spring Open is a USTA sanctioned tournament for juniors, and all participants must be current, valid USTA members. The adult divisions and all doubles events are non sanctioned, and the results will NOT be included in your USTA rankings. Adults do not need to be USTA members, and their results will NOT be included in their USTA rankings.

Divisions offered for adults will be Men's Open, 35, 45, 55 and 65 singles, Women's Open and 35 Singles; Men's Open, 35 and 45 Doubles. Women's Doubles; Open Mixed and 35 Mixed Doubles. Entry fees for these divisions which are NOT USTA sanctioned is $20 for singles and $20 per doubles team which may be paid at your first match. To enter, please send an e-mail to ableinwohl@hotmail.com or wthieman@hotmail.com with your entry information which should include, Name, Address, e-mail, phone, division you wish to enter and doubles partner, if applicable. Note that the tournament committee may combine divisions if necessary.
Here is the new schedulefor Sunday:
Men's Singles
Jeff Conard vs Garrett LeDonne (Sun 10:30)
Men's 45 Singles
Round Robin
Jeff Conard vs Dan Bidwell (Sun 1:30)
Dan Bidwell vs Mark Xue (Sun 9)
Jeff Conard vs Mark Xue (Sun 4:30)
Men's Doubles
Doug Downey-Shawn Farnell vs Dan Bidwell-Garrett LeDonne (Sun 4:30)

The UA Spring Open Tournament Director is Walt Thieman, with his email address and cell phone number are listed above. If you have any questions about the tournament, please contact Walt.

The junior singles divisions will be FMLC (first match losers consolation), with each junior singles participant guaranteed at least two matches. Adult matches and doubles matches are single elimination, when you lose - you are out. All front draw matches are the best of three tiebreak sets, while backdraw matches will used the THIRD SET MATCH TIE BREAK in place of a full third set. A MATCH TIE BREAK IS THE SAME AS A SET TIE BREAK, EXCEPT THE WINNER IS THE FIRST PERSON TO 10 POINTS, INSTEAD OF 7.

This is only a 2 day tournament, with many participants, so there will be no scheduling requests honored, it is just not possible. All players should be prepared to play up to 2 singles matches and up to 2 doubles matches per day. All players must be able to participate from 9 AM to dark so we can finish all matches.

To withdraw from the tournament, before registration closes, go to the right sider of this home page for the tournament. This is the same web page upon which the player registered for the tournament. In the middle of the page there is a section called "Edit Registration". The third line down is labeled "Withdraw". The fourth line down is labeled "Find Confirmation Number", if you cannot find that number for withdrawal.

If the confirmation number the player received upon initial registration was lost or cannot be found, click on "Find confirmation number". Enter the players USTA number, and zip code of the players residence. A list of all the tournaments the player has ever registered for will appear. Write down the confirmation number of the tournament from which the player is withdrawing.

Go back to "Withdraw", and enter the players USTA number and confirmation number for the event in that tournament that you want to drop. Click to confirm the player is withdrawing form the tournament. Withdrawal will be done immediately, and the player is out of the tournament.

Alann Leinwohl will be assisting Walt with this tournament and will be available for stringing all weekend. To contact Alann for your racquet needs, his cell number is 614-902-0927 or inquire at the tournament desk.