Virginia State Indoor Tennis Championships
December 12-15, 2009
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Each player will receive a tournament shirt & gift ($75 value). This year's gift is a 30-can cooler on wheels with a built-in radio (also compatible with MP3 or CD player.)
Players' Luncheon on December 12.
Players' Brunch on December 13.
Hospitality room with food & beverages throughout the entire tournament.
"FINAL 4" awards for all semi-finalists (Gift Baskets: $50 value.)
Events offered: Men's and Women's Singles and Doubles
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Friday, October 23, 2009
RTA, Fraziers introduce program to city elementary schools
A Tennis Topics article by JOHN PACKETT, RTA Staff Writer
It’s been a while since the likes of Junie Chatman, Rodney Harmon, Rozzell Lightfoot and Koren Fleming came out of the city schools to make their mark on the local tennis scene.
If a program initiated by the Richmond Tennis Association and given a boost by Elizabeth and Michael Frazier’s generosity works out, there may be many more developing from Richmond’s inner city in the future.
The seed has been planted in the city’s 26 elementary schools through a U.S. Tennis Association program called Quick Start, which uses a smaller court and racquets with a foam ball --- as well as modified scoring --- to get kids hooked on the sport at an early age.
But the most important aspect of the program, according to Cris Robinson, is simply giving kids who wouldn’t otherwise have the chance an opportunity to enjoy the game without paying for the high cost of lessons and equipment.
“Getting a really good player out of the city, to me, is really far down on the priority list,” said Robinson, a former Clemson University standout who is now the director of tennis at Willow Oaks Country Club.
“Getting the introduction to tennis and having some adult hold the tennis racquet with them and smile at them and say hello. Ask them how they’re doing that day. I think that’s the bigger goal of this whole program.”
The RTA paid for USTA membership ($50 per school) for each of the elementary schools, so they can have access to the Quick Start format and curriculum. The Fraziers, who are co-owners of the new Richmond Raiders indoor football team that begins play at the Coliseum in January, donated the equipment for the program.
“We’ve always been community-service oriented,” said Elizabeth Frazier, whose husband, Michael, is chairman and CEO of Genworth Financial Inc., a global financial security company based in Richmond.
The Fraziers founded the Mary and Frances Youth Center, which is located on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University and offers an after-school program called Lobs and Lessons for inner-city children featuring tennis instructions and life skills.
“I love tennis,” continued Elizabeth Frazier. “My parents met on the tennis court. I didn’t start playing myself until I was an adult. One thing led to another and, all of a sudden, you find yourself delivering equipment to city schools.”
Through the Fraziers, Genworth was also responsible for bringing several exhibitions in recent years to the Siegel Center involving Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf (the two of whom have given clinics as well as played), James Blake, Anna Kournikova, Andy Roddick and Lindsay Davenport.
The Quick Start equipment, which included nets, racquets and balls, was given to the schools last month, and Robinson and his wife, Melissa, held a clinic at the Mary and Frances Center to instruct physical education teachers how to conduct a curriculum.
“We did a whole day of taking them through all the teaching formations and different drills,” said Cris Robinson. “One of the things that was pretty neat was, at the very end, one of the ladies said they had done a lot of in-services in their careers but this was the best one they had ever been a part of.
“And she said the reason for that was what we taught them and using the materials, they could implement with whatever space they had available, whether it was a lot or a little. Very few of them have tennis courts but they do have blacktops they can use.
“Some of them can only use half of a cafeteria or a stage. One guy said they have no hard surface at all, just a grass field. But he said he was going to use half of what we taught them, things that could be done in the air [without a court].
“The majority really received it well. They were excited about it and they loved the fact that the kids could be successful at it.”
The RTA is also hoping to get area clubs involved in the process by sending volunteers to the schools to help with the project.
“The plan is to take each of the schools that have an interest and find volunteers through one of the club’s USTA League teams or maybe a Suburban League team. We’re still working on it, but the idea would be for the team to adopt a school and help with the classes on certain days.”
The VCU Sports Center, which is a graduate school for sport management, is scheduled to be involved in the process and help conduct a Quick Start tournament among the elementary schools sometime in the spring, possibly in April, at the Mary and Frances Center.
“For some of these kids, when a club member comes in and spends 30 minutes or so, showing they care about the kid and gives them attention and helps boost their confidence and self-esteem, I think it’ll be a really positive experience they might not get on a daily basis,” said Robinson.
There is no doubt in Elizabeth Frazier’s mind that a program like this will be successful.
“I think two things,” she said. “With tennis and hopefully, through volunteers and Lobs and Lessons, when you spend time with some of these kids, they just really need some positive feedback. And the fact that they can get on a tennis court and have a little bit of success is great.
“We’re going to stress that positive feedback with the volunteers. You plant seeds and you grow them. I think this is a good start.”
It’s been a while since the likes of Junie Chatman, Rodney Harmon, Rozzell Lightfoot and Koren Fleming came out of the city schools to make their mark on the local tennis scene.
If a program initiated by the Richmond Tennis Association and given a boost by Elizabeth and Michael Frazier’s generosity works out, there may be many more developing from Richmond’s inner city in the future.
The seed has been planted in the city’s 26 elementary schools through a U.S. Tennis Association program called Quick Start, which uses a smaller court and racquets with a foam ball --- as well as modified scoring --- to get kids hooked on the sport at an early age.
But the most important aspect of the program, according to Cris Robinson, is simply giving kids who wouldn’t otherwise have the chance an opportunity to enjoy the game without paying for the high cost of lessons and equipment.
“Getting a really good player out of the city, to me, is really far down on the priority list,” said Robinson, a former Clemson University standout who is now the director of tennis at Willow Oaks Country Club.
“Getting the introduction to tennis and having some adult hold the tennis racquet with them and smile at them and say hello. Ask them how they’re doing that day. I think that’s the bigger goal of this whole program.”
The RTA paid for USTA membership ($50 per school) for each of the elementary schools, so they can have access to the Quick Start format and curriculum. The Fraziers, who are co-owners of the new Richmond Raiders indoor football team that begins play at the Coliseum in January, donated the equipment for the program.
“We’ve always been community-service oriented,” said Elizabeth Frazier, whose husband, Michael, is chairman and CEO of Genworth Financial Inc., a global financial security company based in Richmond.
The Fraziers founded the Mary and Frances Youth Center, which is located on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University and offers an after-school program called Lobs and Lessons for inner-city children featuring tennis instructions and life skills.
“I love tennis,” continued Elizabeth Frazier. “My parents met on the tennis court. I didn’t start playing myself until I was an adult. One thing led to another and, all of a sudden, you find yourself delivering equipment to city schools.”
Through the Fraziers, Genworth was also responsible for bringing several exhibitions in recent years to the Siegel Center involving Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf (the two of whom have given clinics as well as played), James Blake, Anna Kournikova, Andy Roddick and Lindsay Davenport.
The Quick Start equipment, which included nets, racquets and balls, was given to the schools last month, and Robinson and his wife, Melissa, held a clinic at the Mary and Frances Center to instruct physical education teachers how to conduct a curriculum.
“We did a whole day of taking them through all the teaching formations and different drills,” said Cris Robinson. “One of the things that was pretty neat was, at the very end, one of the ladies said they had done a lot of in-services in their careers but this was the best one they had ever been a part of.
“And she said the reason for that was what we taught them and using the materials, they could implement with whatever space they had available, whether it was a lot or a little. Very few of them have tennis courts but they do have blacktops they can use.
“Some of them can only use half of a cafeteria or a stage. One guy said they have no hard surface at all, just a grass field. But he said he was going to use half of what we taught them, things that could be done in the air [without a court].
“The majority really received it well. They were excited about it and they loved the fact that the kids could be successful at it.”
The RTA is also hoping to get area clubs involved in the process by sending volunteers to the schools to help with the project.
“The plan is to take each of the schools that have an interest and find volunteers through one of the club’s USTA League teams or maybe a Suburban League team. We’re still working on it, but the idea would be for the team to adopt a school and help with the classes on certain days.”
The VCU Sports Center, which is a graduate school for sport management, is scheduled to be involved in the process and help conduct a Quick Start tournament among the elementary schools sometime in the spring, possibly in April, at the Mary and Frances Center.
“For some of these kids, when a club member comes in and spends 30 minutes or so, showing they care about the kid and gives them attention and helps boost their confidence and self-esteem, I think it’ll be a really positive experience they might not get on a daily basis,” said Robinson.
There is no doubt in Elizabeth Frazier’s mind that a program like this will be successful.
“I think two things,” she said. “With tennis and hopefully, through volunteers and Lobs and Lessons, when you spend time with some of these kids, they just really need some positive feedback. And the fact that they can get on a tennis court and have a little bit of success is great.
“We’re going to stress that positive feedback with the volunteers. You plant seeds and you grow them. I think this is a good start.”
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Middle schools offer future glimpse at high school stars
A Tennis Topics article by JOHN PACKETT, RTA Staff Writer
If you want to watch the future of high school tennis in the area, look no further than the middle schools of Henrico and Hanover counties.
The Henrico/Hanover Middle School League encompasses 15 schools, with another one coming on board next year.
Unfortunately, neither Chesterfield County nor the Richmond city schools include middle-school tennis among their sports, although there is a move afoot to add it in Chesterfield in the future.
For the time being, Henrico and Hanover counties are the places to go to witness the up-and-coming stars on the courts.
Martha Hodges, who coaches the girls and boys at Tuckahoe Middle, has seen many of the area’s best players come through her program, but has watched as the balance of power has moved west to Short Pump and Pocahontas middle schools.
“A lot of the Short Pump kids play at the Dominion Club, and they play a lot,” said Hodges, who is in her 23rd year at Tuckahoe.
Emily Hahn, who played No. 1 at Douglas Freeman High School last spring as a freshman and won the Central Region title, was one of Hodges’ star pupils before dominating at the next level.
Hodges also coached Bridget and Jay Bruner, and Becky Gunn, among others, over the years, feeding some excellent players to Douglas Freeman, when the Rebels frequently challenged Mills Godwin High School for area and state supremacy.
“I think it was due to the fact that a lot of the kids belonged to the neighborhood recreation associations, where there was swimming and tennis,” Hodges said. “Some of these kids had taken tennis lessons for years and years and years.
“The Hanover schools are good, too, because a lot of them play at Burkwood,” where director of tennis Ed Butterworth has one of the area’s top junior programs.
Another rising middle-school program is at Moody, which draws students from all parts of Henrico County to its IB (International Baccalaureate) program. Shyam Venkatasubramanian was Moody’s top boys’ player last spring.
Mary Ellen Lahy, who played for Hodges at Tuckahoe, is now the girls coach at Short Pump, and has enjoyed watching the younger players develop under her guidance.
“It’s tons of fun,” she said. “I love teaching the game and love seeing them develop friendships at that age. At that age, they’re still having more fun than having that competitive nature. They just enjoy going out there and playing,
“Teaching them the love for the game is one of the big things that I try to do. Once you get to high school, even I remember, you have more pressure and it’s very, very competitive. At the middle-school level, it’s competitive, but they have fun, win or lose.”
Most of Lahy’s girls go on to Deep Run High School, which has joined Godwin as one of the premier female teams in the Central Region.
Short Pump will play Pocahontas on Thursday at Short Pump in a match that could decide this year’s girls’ champion. The boys’ league competes in the spring.
The format for middle-school tennis differs from the high-school level. The middle schools play four singles matches and five doubles, while a high-school match features six singles and three doubles matches.
Players can’t compete in both singles and doubles in middle school like they can in high school. “You need 14 people for a starting lineup, so our teams are a little bit bigger than high-school teams,” said Hodges.
“This gives a few more people a chance to play, but that means five through 14 are playing doubles in a team match, and you can win a match by winning all the doubles. That gives them a chance to learn how to play doubles, because a lot of them don’t play doubles, unless they’re tournament players.”
Hanover has four middle schools that play tennis: Oak Knoll, Chickahominy, Liberty and Stonewall Jackson. The Henrico members of the league are Byrd, Tuckahoe, Elko, John Rolfe, Moody, Brookland, Short Pump, Pocahontas, Wilder, Fairfield, Hungary Creek, with Holman joining next year.
“I know there have been some efforts, especially in recent years, to get Chesterfield schools to put tennis in their program,” said Hodges. “Their [high school] teams will have one or two kids who play in private clubs, but that isn’t enough to have a strong team.
“You need more depth than one or two players. If you have kids that started playing when they were little and then keep playing and really get into tennis in middle school, then they’re willing to do the extra work and practice [to help their high school team].”
That’s the way the Henrico/Hanover Middle School League has operated for years, and it shows when the players they feed into the high-school programs help their teams win regional and state championships.
If you want to watch the future of high school tennis in the area, look no further than the middle schools of Henrico and Hanover counties.
The Henrico/Hanover Middle School League encompasses 15 schools, with another one coming on board next year.
Unfortunately, neither Chesterfield County nor the Richmond city schools include middle-school tennis among their sports, although there is a move afoot to add it in Chesterfield in the future.
For the time being, Henrico and Hanover counties are the places to go to witness the up-and-coming stars on the courts.
Martha Hodges, who coaches the girls and boys at Tuckahoe Middle, has seen many of the area’s best players come through her program, but has watched as the balance of power has moved west to Short Pump and Pocahontas middle schools.
“A lot of the Short Pump kids play at the Dominion Club, and they play a lot,” said Hodges, who is in her 23rd year at Tuckahoe.
Emily Hahn, who played No. 1 at Douglas Freeman High School last spring as a freshman and won the Central Region title, was one of Hodges’ star pupils before dominating at the next level.
Hodges also coached Bridget and Jay Bruner, and Becky Gunn, among others, over the years, feeding some excellent players to Douglas Freeman, when the Rebels frequently challenged Mills Godwin High School for area and state supremacy.
“I think it was due to the fact that a lot of the kids belonged to the neighborhood recreation associations, where there was swimming and tennis,” Hodges said. “Some of these kids had taken tennis lessons for years and years and years.
“The Hanover schools are good, too, because a lot of them play at Burkwood,” where director of tennis Ed Butterworth has one of the area’s top junior programs.
Another rising middle-school program is at Moody, which draws students from all parts of Henrico County to its IB (International Baccalaureate) program. Shyam Venkatasubramanian was Moody’s top boys’ player last spring.
Mary Ellen Lahy, who played for Hodges at Tuckahoe, is now the girls coach at Short Pump, and has enjoyed watching the younger players develop under her guidance.
“It’s tons of fun,” she said. “I love teaching the game and love seeing them develop friendships at that age. At that age, they’re still having more fun than having that competitive nature. They just enjoy going out there and playing,
“Teaching them the love for the game is one of the big things that I try to do. Once you get to high school, even I remember, you have more pressure and it’s very, very competitive. At the middle-school level, it’s competitive, but they have fun, win or lose.”
Most of Lahy’s girls go on to Deep Run High School, which has joined Godwin as one of the premier female teams in the Central Region.
Short Pump will play Pocahontas on Thursday at Short Pump in a match that could decide this year’s girls’ champion. The boys’ league competes in the spring.
The format for middle-school tennis differs from the high-school level. The middle schools play four singles matches and five doubles, while a high-school match features six singles and three doubles matches.
Players can’t compete in both singles and doubles in middle school like they can in high school. “You need 14 people for a starting lineup, so our teams are a little bit bigger than high-school teams,” said Hodges.
“This gives a few more people a chance to play, but that means five through 14 are playing doubles in a team match, and you can win a match by winning all the doubles. That gives them a chance to learn how to play doubles, because a lot of them don’t play doubles, unless they’re tournament players.”
Hanover has four middle schools that play tennis: Oak Knoll, Chickahominy, Liberty and Stonewall Jackson. The Henrico members of the league are Byrd, Tuckahoe, Elko, John Rolfe, Moody, Brookland, Short Pump, Pocahontas, Wilder, Fairfield, Hungary Creek, with Holman joining next year.
“I know there have been some efforts, especially in recent years, to get Chesterfield schools to put tennis in their program,” said Hodges. “Their [high school] teams will have one or two kids who play in private clubs, but that isn’t enough to have a strong team.
“You need more depth than one or two players. If you have kids that started playing when they were little and then keep playing and really get into tennis in middle school, then they’re willing to do the extra work and practice [to help their high school team].”
That’s the way the Henrico/Hanover Middle School League has operated for years, and it shows when the players they feed into the high-school programs help their teams win regional and state championships.
Autumn Cup Challenge opens Friday at Avalon with four teams
A Tennis Topics article by JOHN PACKETT, RTA Staff Writer
Three years ago, when Rob Johnson was the director of tennis at Avalon Recreation Association, he tried to get his club into the Anthem Challenge.
That’s the city-wide, doubles-only competition conducted annually among the area’s largest clubs to determine the best of the best. The Country Club of Virginia won this year’s event at the Westwood Club last month.
Avalon challenged Brandermill Country Club, which finished last among the 12 teams in the Anthem that year, for the final spot in the field for the coming year.
“I brought a team over to Brandermill and challenged them but lost,” Johnson said.
“But our team was so excited about doing something like that, so I thought why not get the rest of the smaller clubs that aren’t participating in it and let them have their own event. That winter, I called around to a lot of the clubs close to Avalon to see who wanted to do it.”
Johnson thought he had six clubs lined up for the first event but it turned out only three -- Avalon, Ridgetop and Kanawha recreation associations -- took part in the first one at Avalon.
“It was an incredible amount of fun and everyone had a great time,” Johnson said.
The third annual affair gets under way -- weather permitting -- on Friday at Avalon with a new name and a fourth team in the draw. It is scheduled to run through Sunday.
The name of the event for the first two years was the Recreation Club Challenge but it’s been changed to the Autumn Cup Challenge for 2009. Wendy Daniels of Kanawha created a logo and designed the T-shirts. Avalon won the initial tournament while Ridgetop claimed last year’s title.
The fourth team will be Richmond Country Club, which is known more for golf but has increased its tennis-playing membership in recent years under the direction of former city champion Jamie Hevron.
At first, Hevron was reluctant to commit the club to the event because he wasn’t sure if there were enough players to field a team.
“We were just worried about not having enough people to play,” Hevron said. “We just didn’t want to say we’d be involved and then realistically be 20 players short or something. That’s why we didn’t get in it last year.
“This year, our tennis committee chair, Susan Evans, took a good lead in recruiting people, and we filled the numbers and we’re pretty excited about it. We’ve had some of our ladies teams and mixed teams go to districts, so I think we’ve got a shot at it.”
Each club is required to field 22 teams and contribute $1,000 in sponsorship funding. Proceeds go to the Richmond Tennis Association’s inner-city junior program.
Much like the Anthem Challenge, the Autumn Cup Challenge uses the U.S. Tennis Association’s rating system to pair doubles teams. In this event, the teams range from the 2.5 to 4.0 levels.
For the purpose of involving more players, the levels for competition are 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0. The 5.0 level, for example, will combine two 2.5 teams and has two men’s teams, two women’s teams and one mixed.
The 6.0 level, which will combine either two 3.0 teams or a 2.5 and a 3.5, will be composed of three men’s teams, three women’s teams and one mixed. The 7.0 level, which could be two 3.5s or a 4.0 and a 3.0, will also have three men’s, three women’s and one mixed.
The 8.0 level, which features two 4.0s, has one men’s, one women’s and one mixed. Teams receive two points for a win and one for a loss, with the team with the most points at the end of three days taking home the trophy.
There is a social Friday evening at Richmond CC and a pro challenge match scheduled for Saturday evening.
In case of inclement weather, the Autumn Cup Challenge will be postponed two weekends to Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
Charlie Palmer, director of tennis at Avalon, said the event committee is interested in adding more clubs in the future.
“We’re trying to expand it,” he said. “We’d like to have some clubs like Bon Air or Three Chopt and some others join us. Six would be nice and maybe one day even get it to eight. But that might be tough to do, since we only have eight courts here.”
Three years ago, when Rob Johnson was the director of tennis at Avalon Recreation Association, he tried to get his club into the Anthem Challenge.
That’s the city-wide, doubles-only competition conducted annually among the area’s largest clubs to determine the best of the best. The Country Club of Virginia won this year’s event at the Westwood Club last month.
Avalon challenged Brandermill Country Club, which finished last among the 12 teams in the Anthem that year, for the final spot in the field for the coming year.
“I brought a team over to Brandermill and challenged them but lost,” Johnson said.
“But our team was so excited about doing something like that, so I thought why not get the rest of the smaller clubs that aren’t participating in it and let them have their own event. That winter, I called around to a lot of the clubs close to Avalon to see who wanted to do it.”
Johnson thought he had six clubs lined up for the first event but it turned out only three -- Avalon, Ridgetop and Kanawha recreation associations -- took part in the first one at Avalon.
“It was an incredible amount of fun and everyone had a great time,” Johnson said.
The third annual affair gets under way -- weather permitting -- on Friday at Avalon with a new name and a fourth team in the draw. It is scheduled to run through Sunday.
The name of the event for the first two years was the Recreation Club Challenge but it’s been changed to the Autumn Cup Challenge for 2009. Wendy Daniels of Kanawha created a logo and designed the T-shirts. Avalon won the initial tournament while Ridgetop claimed last year’s title.
The fourth team will be Richmond Country Club, which is known more for golf but has increased its tennis-playing membership in recent years under the direction of former city champion Jamie Hevron.
At first, Hevron was reluctant to commit the club to the event because he wasn’t sure if there were enough players to field a team.
“We were just worried about not having enough people to play,” Hevron said. “We just didn’t want to say we’d be involved and then realistically be 20 players short or something. That’s why we didn’t get in it last year.
“This year, our tennis committee chair, Susan Evans, took a good lead in recruiting people, and we filled the numbers and we’re pretty excited about it. We’ve had some of our ladies teams and mixed teams go to districts, so I think we’ve got a shot at it.”
Each club is required to field 22 teams and contribute $1,000 in sponsorship funding. Proceeds go to the Richmond Tennis Association’s inner-city junior program.
Much like the Anthem Challenge, the Autumn Cup Challenge uses the U.S. Tennis Association’s rating system to pair doubles teams. In this event, the teams range from the 2.5 to 4.0 levels.
For the purpose of involving more players, the levels for competition are 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0. The 5.0 level, for example, will combine two 2.5 teams and has two men’s teams, two women’s teams and one mixed.
The 6.0 level, which will combine either two 3.0 teams or a 2.5 and a 3.5, will be composed of three men’s teams, three women’s teams and one mixed. The 7.0 level, which could be two 3.5s or a 4.0 and a 3.0, will also have three men’s, three women’s and one mixed.
The 8.0 level, which features two 4.0s, has one men’s, one women’s and one mixed. Teams receive two points for a win and one for a loss, with the team with the most points at the end of three days taking home the trophy.
There is a social Friday evening at Richmond CC and a pro challenge match scheduled for Saturday evening.
In case of inclement weather, the Autumn Cup Challenge will be postponed two weekends to Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
Charlie Palmer, director of tennis at Avalon, said the event committee is interested in adding more clubs in the future.
“We’re trying to expand it,” he said. “We’d like to have some clubs like Bon Air or Three Chopt and some others join us. Six would be nice and maybe one day even get it to eight. But that might be tough to do, since we only have eight courts here.”
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
USTA Tennis/Local 5.0 Team Takes Nationals by Storm
ACAC Fitness & Wellness Center is pleased to announce that tennis director Jason Kinder, along with his 5.0 team, took the USTA Adult Championship home. The tournament, held October 2-4, 2009, was held in Indian Well, California. The team has been together for seven years and have scored victories at the USTA Greensboro Local Adult League, the USTA North Carolina District Tournament and the USTA Southern Tennis Association Sectional Tournament before taking the big win at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Kinder says, “This is a great group of men that travel all over the country to play and train with each other. When the team visits ACAC they really enjoy cross training and using the entire club. From group exercise classes to strength training equipment to the sauna and steam rooms, every little bit helps in winning a National Championship.”
The entire team is made up of tennis professionals that are friends on and off the court. It is crystal clear that this teams’ dynamic is on point. Congratulations!
ACAC has a vast array of tennis programs, starting at age 3 to age 103. ACAC boasts 17 total tennis courts, including clay and hard courts as well as indoor courts. For more information, or to inquire about enrolling in a tennis program or setting up a tennis lesson, please call the ACAC Tennis Desk at 464-0980 or visit us at the web at www.acac.com.
About ACAC Fitness & Wellness Centers
ACAC Fitness and Wellness Centers has been providing quality fitness and wellness services since 1984. With clubs in Charlottesville and Midlothian, VA as well as in West Chester, PA, ACAC features comprehensive fitness facilities complemented by tennis programs, aquatics programs, personal training, medical programs, summer camps, senior fitness and wellness, kids’ programs and corporate fitness programs. Often referred to in national and international industry publications as creating benchmark facilities and recently ranked #38 in the nation by Club Industry’s Top 100, ACAC continues to break new ground in the development of fitness and wellness.
From left: Matthew Rowe, Jason Kinder, Michael Weidl, Toby Curtis, Damon Martin, Tony Mule and Dipesh Surathu Rao (Photo Joe Murphy/USTA)
Kinder says, “This is a great group of men that travel all over the country to play and train with each other. When the team visits ACAC they really enjoy cross training and using the entire club. From group exercise classes to strength training equipment to the sauna and steam rooms, every little bit helps in winning a National Championship.”
The entire team is made up of tennis professionals that are friends on and off the court. It is crystal clear that this teams’ dynamic is on point. Congratulations!
ACAC has a vast array of tennis programs, starting at age 3 to age 103. ACAC boasts 17 total tennis courts, including clay and hard courts as well as indoor courts. For more information, or to inquire about enrolling in a tennis program or setting up a tennis lesson, please call the ACAC Tennis Desk at 464-0980 or visit us at the web at www.acac.com.
About ACAC Fitness & Wellness Centers
ACAC Fitness and Wellness Centers has been providing quality fitness and wellness services since 1984. With clubs in Charlottesville and Midlothian, VA as well as in West Chester, PA, ACAC features comprehensive fitness facilities complemented by tennis programs, aquatics programs, personal training, medical programs, summer camps, senior fitness and wellness, kids’ programs and corporate fitness programs. Often referred to in national and international industry publications as creating benchmark facilities and recently ranked #38 in the nation by Club Industry’s Top 100, ACAC continues to break new ground in the development of fitness and wellness.
From left: Matthew Rowe, Jason Kinder, Michael Weidl, Toby Curtis, Damon Martin, Tony Mule and Dipesh Surathu Rao (Photo Joe Murphy/USTA)
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