USTA Midwest Level 2 Open Championships

Match Schedule Info - Future Match Info
Events - Alternates by Event

Congratulations to our Sportsmanship Award Players for the Midwest Open Girls 18's...
Day #1 Zoe Klapman (Chicago,Il.)
Day #2 Belen Nevenhoven (Northern Il.)
Day #3 Cassie Alcala (Ohio Valley)

All Consolation matches are being moved up to UINDY (7courts) in Indianapolis. Approx. 30-40 minutes from TLAC. The 930am matches will be changed to start times of 1000am for those not effected with Doubles.The rest will follow as check in. We will play 2 rounds of consolation at UINDY and then come back to TLAC this afternoon for the third round and Doubles. Main Draw matches will be at TLAC. Please check in early as we might try to get the 1100am matches started at 1030am if possible.

All DOUBLES matches come indoors to TLAC. Will start match play at 800am. SINGLES matches scheduled this morning at 930 and 1100 should check in at TLAC. Weather looks like we will be sending players up to UINDY.

All Doubles matches Round of 16 are scheduled for 800am at North HS. Except for just 1 match that will start at 830am. Please look at the updated Doubles draw for that information. IF we can not start at 800am Sunday morning outside because of the weather we will immediately go to TLAC to start matches at 800am.

All remaining Singles matches today will be played at TLAC. We have the order of matches to go on set and you should check with us on your time. Doubles Round #1 will not start till 500 pm. Please check in at TLAC before that time to see what match schedule we have. IF the weather clears then we may go outside to North. Otherwise all matches will be here.

There are no changes to the tournament draw schedule at this time. If in the morning we have rain issues we will update plans and changes as soon as possible. We have (4) courts at TLAC and possibility of (7) courts at UINDY in Indianapolis if needed. All players should plan on still doing Check In registration starting at 645 am in morning and first round of play at 800am.

URGENT and IMPORTANT information regarding hotels during our tournament. We have found out that hotels in our area are very limited and few rooms are available the weekend of our tournament. There are 3 major sporting events going on at the same time. YOU NEED TO LOOK FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS NOW. You may have to look as far as 30-60 minutes away from Columbus South on Interstate 65 and North towards Indianapolis on Interstate 65 and 465 up to I 69. Please check our tournament HOST HOTELS which our 10 minutes away from playing sites for updated availability... HILTON GARDEN INN 812-526-8600 , HAMPTON INN 812-526-5100 , HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS 812-526-4919 , and COMFORT INN 812-526-9899. Our local COLUMBUS VISITORS CENTER website is www.columbusin.us for more information and hotels. We will try to update this hotel information as we find out more and look into other hotels away from Columbus. Very sorry for this inconvenience and situation that has come up.
Additional Hotels to possibly contact...
City_ Scottsburg (30-40 min) Hampton Inn 812-752-1999. City_ Greensburg (30-40 min) Holiday Inn Express 812-663-5500 , Hampton Inn 812-663-5000. City_ Greenwood (30-40 min) Candlewood 317-882-4300 , Red Roof 317-887-1515 , Holiday Inn Express 317-881-0600. City_ Southport (30-40 min) Marriott Courtyard 317-885-9799.

SATURDAY... Player registration will ONLY be at the MAIN SITE/Columbus North High School. Please Check in at least 30-45 minutes prior to your first round match. You will receive your PLAYER MATCH CARD, t-shirt, player packet, sponsor coupons and general information. Registration will start by 7:00am Saturday. Please do this BEFORE YOUR FIRST MATCH

Doubles entries close, Thursday, July 19th at 6:00pm(EST). Please try to have BOTH players register online before the sign up deadline. If you did not sign up with your partner online and before the entry deadline has passed then PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR NAME AND DOUBLES PARTNER NAME(kchammel@gmail.com) to register. I will need a confirmation email from your partner also. If you are looking for a doubles partner please email me with that request and we will add your name to the looking for a partner list before the deadline has passed.

This tournament will use a combination of USTA/Midwest Points Per Round and Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) for player selection and seeding. Players will be selected for the tournament in the following order.
1 -44 Players based on the most recent USTA/Midwest Standings List in the age division of the tournament.
2 -20 Players based on UTR
Players will be seeded for the tournament in the following order:
1 -Top 8 seeds based on UTR
2 -Seeds 9-16 based on USTA/Midwest Standings List
If you have questions regarding player selection and/or seeding, please contact the USTA/Midwest Section office at jrtourney@midwest.usta.com.
For more informaton about UTR please click the following link xxxxx

Both the Main and Consolation Singles Draw will play best of 3 tiebreak sets with a 10-point super tiebreak in lieu of a third set.
Singles is 64 MFIC-R16 draw. Doubles will be a 32 SE draw. Feed-in consolation draw (through the Round of16). Quarter-final losers will be fed into a separate consolation draw to playoff completely through finals.. Semi-final losers from Singles Main Draw will playoff for 3rd and 4th place. FIC-16 draw stops at finals match. There is no Doubles playoff for 3rd/4th place.

First round report time information will be available by 6:00pm on the Wednesday before the tournament begins. Come back to this page and click on the blue "Future Match Info Report" to find out your first match time as well as your Win/Loss time. Please be careful when reading this. The W/L times are in parentheses. If possible, players from the same district will not play each other first round unless an alternate fills a spot or more than half the draw is from the same district.

The complete draws will be posted on the Friday before the event begins by 6:00 pm.
There are NO REFUNDS after the player selection is complete.
Player Selection and numbered Alternate List will be posted the Saturday after the Thursday deadline by 12:00 noon.

Saturday... Main Draw will play Rd of 64 and 32 followed by the first Rd of FIC. Doubles will be played the afternoon and will do 1 Rd and possibly 2 Rd depending on size of draw.
Sunday... Play 1 Rd of Doubles in morning. Followed by Singles Rd 2 of Consolations, Main Draw Rd of 16, Consolation Third Rd Qualifier, Main Draw Quarterfinal Rd, and Consolation Third Rd. Followed by 1 Rd of Doubles.
Monday... TBA

We will be using 3-4 court locations for this tournament. They are as follows...
MAIN SITE is COLUMBUS NORTH HIGH SCHOOL (CN) @ 1400 25th Street 47201.. #8 courts.
DONNER PARK (DP) @ 22nd & Lafayette 47201.. #4 courts.
COLUMBUS EAST HIGH SCHOOL (CE) @ 230 S Marr Road & Indiana Ave. 47201.. #6 courts.
HAMILTON LINCOLN PARK (LP) @ 2501 Lincoln Park Drive 47201.. #4 courts.
Tipton Lakes Athletic Club 4000 Goeller Blvd 47201.. #4 indoor courts.
All playing sites are approx. 10 minutes or less apart and located close to downtown area.

Practice courts will be available at Hamilton Lincoln Park (4) through the tournament. Also you can use Harrison Ridge Park@ Tipton Lakes Blvd / Coles Dr.47201 , Brown County High School @ 235 South School House Lane, Nashville 47488 , and any site we do not use during scheduled match play. There are courts available indoors at TLAC @ 4000 Goeller Blvd, 47201 for a $15.00 per hour fee. From Interstate 65, turn on 46 West at the Columbus exit and go to the first stoplight. TLAC club is located on the left corner. We are about 1 hour North of Louisville, KY and 45 minutes South of Indianapolis.

If you do not provide an email address and/or cell number(s) when you register for this tournament, then we will not be able to notify you about any possible changes in the tournament.

This tournament carries with it Level 2 USTA/Midwest points per round and Level 4 USTA National Singles points and Level 3 USTA National Doubles points per round. For more information on USTA/Midwest points per round, please visit the following link: more info xxxx

If you have questions about USTA/Midwest tournaments, please email jrtourney@midwest.usta.com. Also, please take a minute to tell us what you thought about this tournament using the following link: more info

1) If your credit card has been declined, please contact the tournament director immediately. You have until noon Monday to pay for the tournament. The tournament director has the option to withdraw you from the competitors list if you have not communicated with them. 2) No refunds after player selections.

Please see link if you have signed up for two tournaments on the same weekend. more info