JTC 2021 TOURNAMENTS

JTC had a great tournament season in 2021. Here is a summary of the results:

Sept 11 - Fall scramble

The appreciated beautiful day was started with a remembrance

of a day of infamy we will never forget Sept 11, 2001.

We ended this season with a great fun scramble on

a perfect weather day. Tennis play will go on at JTC deep

into October but the last tournament of our four

tournament summer was fitting to be a very social and lively

play of doubles matches.

Many thanks to John Tanzman. our Tournament Director who

once again dedicated his day to ensuring the JTC players

have some varied competition and a lot of fun, as he did

for the opening year scramble, the mixed doubles tournament,

the Challenge Cup and the mens womens doubles.

The skillful players of the day who won the final match set

were a nicely matched couple Scott Kaplan and Alena McDonough.

Taking second place today was a dynamic duo (or trio?)

Laurie Gabriel and Alli Hefferan.

By the time the final match was played out our participants

were able to devour 24 burgers and even a few beers. Thanks

to Joanne Green bringing the salads and others too many

to mention who brought pasties, brownies and cookies ...all very appreciated.

Yes, after some vigorous play on the courts, comfort food

was a great finish.

The scramble format was a hit and we are sure will continue

next year on the tournament list.

aug 21 - the challenge cup

JTC won the annual Challenge Cup tournament between JTC and Bridgton Highlands Tennis Club at Bridgton Maine! A Mens, Womens, and Mixed tournament with A, B and C teams in each category. The cup now returns to its rightful place on the JTC clubhouse mantel until next year. JTC won 5 matches to 4 over Bridgton....a very close competition. John Tanzam and Jason Cicero mens was the deciding match for JTC.

JTC wins 5 matches to 4:

Women’s

1. Carol Kelley/Mikita Orsoz 6-0, 6-2 over Gail and Lorraine

2. Anna Romer/Phoebe Smith 6-3, 6-4 over Diana and Sue M

3. Lynn Fusco/Megan Goldsmith 6-1, 6-1 over Julie ad Susan K

Mixed Doubles

1. Bridget and Mike M over Mary Johnson/Henry Coons 6-2, 6-2

2. Mark G and Janet L over Kathy Brown/Art Goldsmith 6-1, 6-2

3. Tom and Alena over Kathy Brown/Mike Fusco 6-2, 6-1

Men’s Doubles

1. John and Jason over Joe Twer/David Chaffee 7-6, 7-5

2. Nubi and Jeremy over Jose Azel/John Russell 6-2, 6-3

3. Rick Siegrist/Chuck Wilcoxen over Paul and Daryl 6-2, 6-0

Aug 14 Mens womens doubles guest tournament

We had another beautiful day and a great turnout for our third tournament of the year. This time it was men's and women's open doubles with 9 women's team and 6 men's team competing.

The men kicked off the day with two 3 team flights competing in a round robin competition. Joe Twer and John Waldie won their flight and then defeated the other flight winners Bob Yanuck and John Tanzman in the finals. Mark Guerringue and Mike Mallet took third place with a victory over Dave Chaffee and John Russell.

The women's tournament saw a number of very competitive matches. Flight winners were Alena McDonough and Sue MacIver, Bridget Herlihy and Laurie Gabriel and Carolyn Wachnicki and Judy Teehan. Bridget and Laurie won in the finals over Alena and Sue, while Carolyn and Judy had an amazing comeback against Lorraine Dokas and Diana Doyle to capture third place.

The day got off to a rocky start with the net post on court 1 giving way. Thanks to some ingenuity by Paul Pacenka and John Russell we were able to keep play moving with a truck holding the post up throughout the day.

Thanks to everyone that participated and helped make this a great day. A number of the players brought food with them and everyone involved seemed to pitch in somehow, support the players and have a great time.

Special thanks to Laurie for offering up her court so we could keep the tournament moving along and to Paul Packenka (with some help from Joe Twer) for taking care of the grill.

3rd annual mixed doubles vintage tournament

2021 3rd Annual doubles scramble was a crowd pleaser!

With full participation of 24 competitors, our opening season tournament of a mixed doubles

scramble was great fun and had plenty of competitive play by all. Tournament Director John Tanzman

set up a great mix of matches. We witnessed some great games that had the crowd

applauding. And our tournament tradition of delicious burgers seemed to be the real

draw to this very social JTC event, thanks to grill chef Bill Pruschinski.

The finals brought on the top four highest point scorers of Bob Yanuck and Anne Pillion versus

Hadley Champlain and Frank Murphy. It was exciting to see couple Anne and Hadley play

against each other. The level of tennis went up a notch.....but "gets everything" Bob and Anne

prevailed as the Scramble Winners for 2021. Congratulations.

Also presented was Carolyn Wachnicki's beautiful framing of the 1981 water color print of the

crowd at the Volvo International Tournament, Mt. Cranmore Tennis Club Stadium where Ivan Lendl lost in the finals against Jose-Luis Clerc now on display in the JTC Clubhouse tennis museum. The print

was donated to JTC by Stan and Dan's Sports North Conway. Stan and Dans was a sponsor

of the Volvo tournament from 1974 to 1984 and Stan was a linesman at the time. Stan and Dans

gives JTC members a 20% discount on tennis equipment.

The 2020 covid-19 season of JTC tournaments has come to an end. Here are the memories:

2020 2nd Annual doubles scramble

On Sunday Sept 13 we had a field of 24 players on a beautiful beginning of fall day. Everyone played 4 rounds of 4 game sets. The top 8 in number of games played in a playoff.

First place team accepting the coveted JTC glass mugs

were Bridget Herlihy and Diana Doyle.

The best part was that all players got to play with a different randomly picked doubles

partner for each of the 4 rounds, making for a very fast moving, varied and challenging

tennis and social experience.

Thank you again to John Tanzman for the idea, the coordinating and setting up this 2nd annual

scramble tournament. Thanks to the great food providers.... Judy Crofts getting us

morning coffee, ample delicious burgers with trappings and cookies, Lorraine Dokas for also amazing cookies,

Nancy and Bill Watts for crazy good desserts, Paul S. got the beer (yea!), and OMG Deb White

bringing an awesome chacuterie board. And of course Paul Pacenka custom cooking

to order the burgers. Thank you to everyone attending and making it a fun event...the

tennis watching was as good as playing.

2020 jtc vs bridgton highlands annual challenge

Congratulations to Bridgton Highlands winning the 4th held Challenge Cup.

Bridgton took the final two matches this morning thus scoring 6 matches versus Jackson total of 3.

The last matched played was a womens doubles nail bitter.... Bridgton's Carol Kelley/Mikita Orsoz team

defeated Jackson's Carolyn Wachnicki / Alena McDonough in a come from behind tie breaker 3rd set 12-10!!

Paul Schuepp passed the Challenge Cup trophy back to Justin Chaffee, Tennis Director of BH, where it will reside until the next Challenge in 2021.

The 9 matches, 3 womens teams, 3 mens teams and 3 mixed teams, provided very competitive tennis which was exciting to watch. Spectator turn out and camaraderie was strong from both sides for all matches spread over 4 days due to the rain out when the tournament started last Saturday.

Thank you Bridgton Highlands teams and Justin Chaffee for great competition and fun. Thanks to the Jackson Tennis Club teams for fierce play and efforts putting on a good show and thanks to John Tanzman for coordination of JTC.

Next year the Challenge will be held at Bridgton.

JTC will be back!

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Final Tournament Results: Bridgton 6. Jackson 3

MENS: JC 2, BH: 1

Jeremy Muench/Jose Azel (BH) def. Mike Mallet / Mark Guerringue (JC)

Jason Cicero / Kent Hemingway (JC) def. Michael Coleman/John Russell (BH)

Bob Yanuck / Tom McDonough (JC) def. Rick Siegrist/Dave Bernier (BH)

WOMEN: JC 0, BH 3

Carol Kelley/Mikita Orsoz (BH) def. Carolyn Wachnicki / Alena McDonough (JC)

Anna Romer/Sherri Bernier (BH) def. Diana Doyle/Lorraine Dokas (JC)

Lynn Fusco/Phoebe Smith (BH) def. Paula Hart / Susan Kent (JC)

MIXED: JC 1, BH 2

Bridget Hurlihy / John Tanzman (JC) def. Mary Johnson/John Waldie (BH)

David Chaffee/Christine Rothman (BH) def. Judi Crofts / Paul Pacenka (JC)

Bev Chalmers/Jack Youngelston (BH) def Hadley Champlain / Peter Benson (JC)

2020 Vintage Tournament July 25th results..

Our now annual Vintage Tournament was a wonderful JTC event yesterday on a beautiful July day with 12 mixed doubles teams participating.

(See photos at https://photos.app.goo.gl/tXTnbPcr7Ds6bedz9 )

The competition was fierce thanks to the pair ups and including a consolation bracket arranged by our tournament committee leader John Tanzman.

The matches were even more interesting as each player was required to use a vintage wooden racquet for at least one game within each set played.

This years' champions were Bridget Hurlihy and Evan Hurlihy receiving the coveted JTC glass beer mugs.

Note President Schuepp not shaking hands but rather giving a congratulatory elbow bump.

Almost as much fun as the tennis competition was the gala of vintage and whites fashion

from all teams. The members were really in the spirit of culture and history that tennis

came from, especially here in the Valley going back to the Cranmore International Volvo

tournaments.

Special recognition was given for classic tennis outfits well done to Scott Kaplan as John McEnroe with

authentic hair do, Carolyn Wachnicki in classic Sergio Tacchini, John Campbell as Bjorn Borg Fila

outfit using Borg racquet, Judi Crofts with an actual 37 year old beautiful pleated silk Chrissy

Evert skirt, and Danielle Kastrati in class white elegant dress:

2019 tournaments

2019 was a great season of fun tournaments including the June Scramble, the July Vintage Tournament, the August Mens and Womens Doubles, and the September Doubles Championships. JTC doubles teams also won the Bridgton Highland vs Jackson Cup Challenge this year.

August 10th - Mens and Womens Doubles Member Member, Member Guest Tournament RESULTS...

4 teams for Men

Steve Pietrow and Jason Cicero Guest

Paul Schuepp and Bob Barnesky

Aleks Lazarev and Michael Costa

Bob Yanuck and Arash Mostafi

4 teams for Women

Judy Crofts and Joan Pearson Guest

Carren Webber and Leanne Campbell Guest

Diana Doyle and Lorraine Dokas

Margie McLellan and Julie Conlon

Round Robin format....results... the champs are...

MEN: Steve Piotrow and Jason Cicero

WOMEN: Diana Doyle and Lorraine Dokas

Congratulations.... great time, some really good tennis!

JULY 28th - 1st Annual Vintage Mixed Doubles Member Guest Tournament - RESULTS...

1st Place: Bridget Herlihy and John Tanzman

2nd Place: Steve Piotrow and Judi Crofts

3rd Place: Diana Doyle and David Chaffee

Best Vintage Outfit... Judi Crofts

June 29th - Scramble Tournament Results

Champions: Steve Piotrow and JJ Green

Runners Up: Bridget Herlihy and Fiona Treacy

2018 tournaments

August 19th - 2nd Annual Bridgton Highlands & Jackson Club Tennis Tournament

JTC lost 5 to 4 matches against BHT... it was close. BHT retains the trophy.

Thanks to some help from friends of JTC to join the membership in this battle.

I think we are well positioned to take BHT next year, but Congratulations to Bridgton for 2018.

Mixed Doubles: JTC Wins 2, BHT Wins 1

Jim DiTrollo/Leanne Campbell vs Larry Mitkus/Patricia Mitkus

JTC Win

Dave Chaffee/Terry Butler vs Chris Siegrist/Rick Siegrist

BHT Win 6-4, 6-4

Grey Maloberti/Amy Maloberti vs Jerry Heart/Danielle Rowland

JHT Win 7-5, 4-6 (10-7)

Mens Doubles: JTC Wins 2, BHT Wins 1

Jim DiTrollo/Graham Brown vs Alan Souza/Greg Roberts

JTC Win 6-0, 6-0

Paul Pacenko/Eric Schandor vs Jose Azel/Paul Romer

BHT Win 6-0, 6-2

Bob Yanuck/JJ Green vs Jeff Rydman/David Chaffee

JTC Win 6-4, 6-3

Ladies Doubles: JTC Wins 0 , BHT Wins 3

Diana Doyle/Leanne Campbell vs Anna Romer/Kathy Brown

BHT Win: 6-2, 6-4

Alena McDonoguh/Margie McLellan vs Sherri Bernier/Carol Kelley

BHT Win: 6-2, 6-4

Robin Kosstrin/Joanne Green vs BeverlyChalmers/Kathyt Souza

BHT Win: 6-0, 6-1

Aug 5th, 2018 - Members Guests Doubles Mens and Mixed Tournament Results:

Mens First Place Mike Anderson & Paul Schuepp

Runners Up Al Griffin & Joe Allis

Mixed First Place Leanne DiTrolio & Rick Siegrist

Runners Up Sooji & Paul Schuepp

July 21, 2018 - Members Doubles Mens Womens Tournament

Mens First Place Steve Pietrow, Bob Barnesky

Runners Up Jim Egan, Mike Brophy

Womens First Place Margie McLellan, Julie Conlon

Runners Up Robin Kosstrin, Maryann Selling

June 16th - Doubles Member Guest Tournamet - Mixed, Womens, Mens Results

Mens: First Place Steve Pietrow, Bob Yanuck

Runner Up Tom McDonough, David Chaffee

Womens: First Place Diana Doyle, Allie Hefferan

Runner Up Mauran Soraghan, Andrea Murphy

Mixed: First Place Terry Butler, Michael Anderson

Runner Up Allie Hefferan, Joe Allis

Closing May 22nd 2021. for the Season.

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