December

Happy Holidays everyone.
The December play day was packed with jolly folks, wonderful baked goods, 5 courts in total and the Fahls' were able to keep the windy/cold weather at bay.

Some ATA members are heading to Surprise, AZ this coming week for their 65 and over sectionals. Congratulations to Linda and Joe, good luck to both teams.

 

Christmas party is Sunday, December 16th, 5:00pm, Sintra and Ruthven's home. Reminder to bring a side dish and a "tacky, yet nice gift".

 

SNM league tennis: Great opportunity for Alamo to put a team together, 1/2 the matches would be played right here in Alamo.  If you are interested in playing, contact Allison Deputy, SNM Leagues Coordinator

snmleagues@gmail.com

 

January 21st-March 10th; 40 and over league tennis.

March 31st-May 5th; 55 and over league tennis.

March 23rd; Alamogordo Cottonwood Tournament

For a master list of league and tournament information click below:

http://www.southernnewmexico.usta.com and

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-New-Mexico-District-USTA/177286374229. 

                              

December happenings

December play day: 12/1/18, hosted by Sabine and Wolfgang.

ATA Christmas party: Sunday, December 16 at 5:00pm, Sintra and Ruthven's home. ATA will provide meats and some drinks, everyone is asked to please bring a side dish. There will be a $10 tacky, yet nice gift.

League Tennis:
The SNM is having a Captain's meeting set for Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at the NMSU Tennis Center for all interested for the 40 & Over and the 55 & Over Adult Leagues for the 2019 season.
If anyone is interested in playing on a Women's or Men's 40 and over league, now's the time to think about it, as the 40 and over will begin in January.  One can contact Allison Deputy altennis21@hotmail.com 


                                                           

 

November Happenings

November Play day, November 3^rd, was for Turkeys and was hosted by Lee and Diane.  5 courts were full of players and the Turkey winners were: Sky (1st), David (2nd), Petra (1st), Gail (2nd); Nori and Fred took home bug zappers for their scores.

Regarding the elections, there were only 3 nominees: Greg and Charles agreed to run for another term, Diane Gustafson was the only member who wished to run. Therefore, there was no election needed for the 3 board positions. Come January 1, 2019 Diane will be our newest board member.

November 5^th @ 5:30/6:00pm for the Birthday celebration will be at the Cloudcroft Brewery, (behind the High School).

44th Annual Alamogordo Open Tennis Tournament

Non-Sanctioned Results
Men's Doubles Final - Rios, Rey/Sosin, Louis def Burns, Shane/Sawangacharatorn, Sky, 6-3;6-1

Men's Doubles Consolation Final - Pickering, Randy/Santackas, Joe (1) def Nicholson, Grady/Wells, Ron, 6-0;6-3  
Men's Singles Final - Schneider, Chris def Burns, Shane, 7-6;6-0
Men's Singles Consolation Final - Klump, John (1) def Nicholson, Grady 6-1;6-1
Mixed Doubles Final - Sampath, Sintra/powell, charles (1) def. Pickering, Randy/Pickering, Tammy, (2) 6-4;6-1
Mixed Doubles Consolation Final - Morgan, Nori/Morgan, Pat def Waggoner, Cathy/Wells, Ron, 7-5;6-1
Women's Doubles Final - Sampath, Sintra/Schneider, Petra def Gallent, Josephine/Jun, Melanie (1), 4-6;7-5;10-6
Women's Doubles Consolation Final - Pickering, Tammy/Taplen, Debra def Comon-Pearce, Paciencia/Tillery, Sue (2), 6-4;6-2
Sanctioned Results
Men's 35 Singles Final - Melville, Dustin (2) def. Crawley, Curtis (1) 6-0; 6-4
Men's 35 Singles Consolation - powell, charles def. Herrera, Michael 6-4; 6-3
Mixed Open Doubles Final - Jun, Melanie/powell, charles def. Gallent, Josephine/Jack, Robert 6-3; 6-3
Mixed Open Doubles Consolation Final - Tillery, Sue/Trujillo, John def Matteucci, Amy, Melville, Dustin - Def 

Congratulations to all entrants and winners and the Tournament Director Linda Gilliland.
Thanks to Greg for, well, you'll see in the picture, and Ron for all the shade

 

ATA Tournament party and October birthday celebration

                                                                      

 

There will be a party held at the Magnuson Hotel, 1021 S White Sands Blvd, Alamogordo, Phone: (575) 437-2110 after Saturday's matches, let's say 6:00pm. We are welcome to use their pool as well, however no GLASS beverages allowed at their pool. ATA will provide beverages. This is a potluck for all ATA members. All out of town players playing in the tournament are welcome to this, and they "ARE NOT" required to bring anything. We will also be celebrating all the October birthdays.  Should you have any questions, please contact a board member.

 

Alamogordo Tournament

Tournament Date: October 13-14, 2018

Tournament ID:  You can jump straight to this tournament by entering the tournament identification number: 750002918 from a searchable schedule homepage.

Lodging:   One of our local hotels, MAGNUSON, is offering special rates to all tennis tournament players and families. One Queen bed for $55.25/night, two Queens for $73.10/night, one King for $62.90/night. All rooms are smoke free, free wifi, pool and free hot breakfast. Players need to call, 575-437-2110, mention the tournament and "advanced rate offered by Battina".  Players need to call by the tournament deadline, October 7, 2018.

Tournament Home - Alamogordo OPEN Tennis Tournament

Tournament Home - Annual Alamogordo Non-Sanctioned

2018 55 and over Sectionals

Congratulations to Gail, Diane, Janet & Joe for their ladies and men's 55 and over teams won their division and made it to Sectionals for the Southwest, held this past weekend in El Paso. I was fortunate enough to see tons of great tennis played by our folks as well as others. Next weekend Gail, Joe & Janet are off to Tucson for another Sectional's event, their 40 and over Mixed won their divisions. We also ran into a former ATA member at this event. Nice catching up with Laurie Frappier.

Alamo/Roswell Exchange

You may already know this, but this event is cancelled for this year. However, there will be a PLAY DAY on 9/22.

A successful RoadRunner tournament

We had a great turnout for the 2nd RoadRunner tournament held here in Alamogordo. 27 kids participated, 4 from Alamogordo. Big Thank You to Jamie, Evelyn, Greg, Gail Patsy, Sintra, Curtis, Pat, Joe, Ron, Lori, Bernice, Nell and Grady for all their help.

RoadRunner Jr. Tournament

This Saturday, 9/8/18, we have 29 kids coming to play in this event, coming as far as Juarez. Matches start at 10:00am, come out to watch and support junior tennis. Come out and volunteer, it's not too late, contact Evelyn or Janet if you can help.   ALL COURTS WILL BE IN USE.

Later this month 9/22 is the exchange with Roswell, taking place here in Alamo, so if you'd like to play, please let a board member know, we really do want a headcount, so take too long in deciding to play or not.

Newsworthy

Nice article and picture Elaine Wedgeworth submitted to the paper.

Reminder, if you haven't contacted Evelyn or Janet to help out at the Jr. Tournament coming up 9/8, please do so.

September birthday gathering will take place at the courts on 9/13, this is an ATA board sponsored social. You can bring your dinner if you eat on the later side, the board will provide a cake, lots of September birthdays so we hope to see you there.

If you want to play in the 9/22 ATA/Roswell exchange, please contact a board member.

Alamogordo RoadRunner Jr. Tournament

Come on out and support this tournament for the kids. If you wish to help, please contact Jamie, Evelyn or Janet.

 

ATA and Alto Lakes Tennis day

This past Saturday, August 4th, some of our members headed to the beautiful, cool country of Ruidoso to engage in an exchange with the folks of Alto Lakes Country & Golf Club. After playing, we all gathered outside for lunch. Great job by Evelyn and her friend Elaine.

 

 

REMINDER: this Thursday is the ATA social tennis at 7:00pm, though many show up earlier. 

Sr. Summer Olympics

In Albuquerque last week, Grady, Ron, Domingo and Charles all participated in the Olympics. 

Grady took second place in singles in his age group -  Congratulations Grady.

Charles took third place in his age group - Congratulations Charles.  Domingo took second and Ron took fourth in their age group - Congratulations to Domingo and Ron.
August 6th birthday dinner will be held at the Wild Game Bistro on Highway 82, right before/next to the Apple Barn.
PICKLEBALL - starting Monday, August 13th at 6:30pm, all are welcome, Chuck Kime has requested some night playing.

July Play Day

Saturday's play day filled up 3 courts. Random prizes were drawn. Sandy S was the receipient of a gift as the oldest player to show up. Lots of good breakfast burritos, German cakes and salsa. Thanks Sintra for hosting and she thanks Ron, Charles and Sal for helping set up play day.

June/July Items

Hope everyone is staying cool.  Just a few items.

6/29. Good luck to Ron and Grady at the Carlsbad tournament this weekend.
~ 2nd session of tennis camp starts this Monday, 25th. 8:00am - 10:00am, M, W, F.

~ Thursday, June 28th, 4th Thursday, evening tennis social at 7:00pm.

~ July birthday dinner is July 2nd at 6:00pm at Carino's.

~ July 7th play day will be hosted by Sintra Sampath, 9:00am. (4th of July theme) 

 

Gail and Janet made their way to Sectionals in Tucson this past June. Janet captained a 40 and over ladies team, "The Terminetters" who won their league. Great tennis. I will say and I know I speak for the rest of our team, Gail was amazing. (Sorry no pics, we were too busy playing). 😊

Some shots of the kids at the tennis camp.

 

 

June Play Day

June PLAY DAY is set for this Saturday, June 2nd, at the Cloudcroft tennis courts with play starting at 9:30.  Please bring along chairs (as there is no seating available there), sunscreen, and plenty of water.  We will be playing in the cool mountains at 9000 feet elevation, so you might want a light jacket. We'll be using USED tennis balls because of the elevation. After play, everyone is invited to the Genta's cabin for lunch.

There are lots of activities that weekend (Rails to Trails stations, an organized run, etc.), so feel free to just come for lunch if that fits your schedule better.  A map to Genta's cabin will be available at play day (its just a few minutes drive from the Cloudcroft courts), or call Evelyn or John.  

Hope to see you then!!!

40 and over Mixed Doubles

Hi all, just a reminder that it's not too late to put together a team from Alamogordo, half the matches would be played here if a team is put together. Good, fun tennis with the chance to go to Sectional's in Tucson,  September 27-30, 2018, Tucson, AZ - Hilton El Conquistador 
Contact Daniel Avila.

Thursday night tennis

Tonight's turnout was pretty good, 3 courts of mostly mixed doubles. Thanks so much for your participation. Joy made Ceviche which is always yummy, snacks and water provided by your board members.

We will do this again next Thursday at 7pm since everyone thought the time was perfect.

Thanks again everyone for your participation.

May Play Day

May Play Day

Beautiful, windless morning, for our May play day. Great job by Joy and Sal. Food was DELICIOUS, 1st watermelon of the season was yummy, prizes were great. Winners: Rick, Pat, Ron, Nori, Diane and Janet.

 

May Happenings

Congratulations to Coach Powell and crew, for the AHS tennis teams are District 3-5A Champs. They are off to ABQ. 
     Melanie Jun – District Champ, Mackenzie Sherwood – runner up and her sister Abby Sherwood – 4^th.  Cammie Wallace and Hailey Moehlmann – runner ups for doubles, Keanu Tran – runner up and Spencer Moezzi – 4^th for the boys.

This coming Saturday is our May play day: Joy & Sal are hosting. See you all at 9:00am. 

May Birthday dinner: May Pizza Patio @ 5:30 

Senior Olympics: Contact Ron Wells for entry forms.

USTA SNM Junior Slam Series #3 of 6 is May 19^th at Lion’s Park. (Ask Janet for more information)

**ATA EVENING TENNIS SOCIAL:
Folks, whose interested in playing some evening mixed doubles?? We’d like to give this a go starting May 23^rd. Don’t fret, for if Wednesday’s DO NOT work for you, give us another evening, I know we can’t please everyone by picking the right evening, but we sure will try.  If interested, please let Janet know, as well as if a different evening works for you.**

Summer city camp: Schedule:
6-14 age group; June 4-15, M,W,F and
June 25-29, 9:00-10:30am.  City will provide monies/help for those in need. Linda is hoping the H.S. kids can help.  Pricing and scheduling coming soon. Contact Linda if you are interested.
Las Cruces tournament: 6/16-6/17 all are invited to play.
 
Southern New Mexico tennis leagues: there’s still plenty of tennis to be played if interested.  SNM FB Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/Southern-New-Mexico-District-USTA-177286374229/
Or Contact Daniel Avila if interested in playing. SNM Tennis League Coordinator, 915-479-2301 or aviladdaniel@yahoo.com. 
Next up is 65 and over, GREAT opportunity for Alamogordo to put a team together.

***Keep in mind, if ALAMO puts a team together, ½ the matches would be played here in Alamogordo.***

April information

Cottonwood tournament results - Congratulations to our winners.
     NTRP 4.0 Singles; John Trujillo def John Klump 6-1, 6-4

        NTRP Men’s doubles; Charles Powell/Joseph Westover def Patsy Comon-Pearce/Gail Richardson 6-1, 6-3

        NTRP Men’s Open Singles; Dustin Melville def Charles Powell 6-2, 6-1

NTRP Mixeds doubles; Patsy Comon-Pearce/Sal Olayo def. Sue Tillery/John Trujillo 6-1, 1-6, 10-8

May play day: Joy Gallent, May 5th, 9:00am
May Birthday dinner: Pizza Patio @ 5:30

Las Cruces tournament: 6/16-6/17 all are invited to play.

Southern New Mexico tennis leagues: there’s plenty of tennis to be played if interested.  SNM FB Webpage: https://www.facebook.com/Southern-New-Mexico-District-USTA-177286374229/

Leagues are going on: 55 and over men’s and women’s. Contact Daniel Avila if interested in playing. SNM Tennis League Coordinator, 915-479-2301 or aviladdaniel@yahoo.com.

April 8 - June 3	55 & Over USTA League
May 19	SNM Junior Slam Series: Rollin' Cruces
May 19	The Rollin' Cruces L6

High School District tournament: 4/27–4/28 *NO COURTS AVAILABLE*

Summer city camp: Schedule TBD; possible the 1st week in June will be an introductory to this camp.  City will provide monies/help for those in need. Linda is hoping the H.S. kids can help. Contact Linda if you are interested. 6-14 age group; M, W, F.