Beyond the Baseline Tennis Blog ----------------JV (pghtennis) wrote, @ 2003-05-04 12:00:00

Promoting Area College Tennis
I guess we should thank Phil Axelrod for mentioning regional college tennis in his article in this morning's PPG.

If you don't subscribe to the PPG, the article is available here: http://snurl.com/1a8m.

However, the publicity he gives to college tennis is after the fact, it's history, the season is over. It will be forgotten and have little impact on stimulating the popularity and support of collage tennis when the 2003-2004 season comes around.

Here's what we need BEFORE the area's men's and women's collegiate tennis seasons begin:

1) Home match schedules available on Web sites and in print pubs. All schedules must be collated together in one place for convenient reference.

2) A communications mechanism that ensures all regional high school and junior tennis programs know about these schedules as well as the Atlantic 10 Conference and National Collegiate Clay Court Championships.

3) Articles featuring the area's primer players and teams. (Can we get area college, or even high school, newspaper sports writers to write them? Have a contest?)

4) Constant reminders of upcoming matches (where, when & who).

5) College tennis night at the Women's Challenger. (Structured so it's not just for varsity players.)

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