2010 PAcific Coast Senior/family Championships

Photos here

There’s no tournament quite like the Pacific Coast Senior/Family Championships. It provided competition in categories for men and women in singles and doubles ranging from 35 to 85 years of age. And this year the tournament added a Family component with Father and Son and Father and Daughter events. While the competition was just as fierce in all categories, adding the Family events gave the tournament a warm and novel texture with expectation of expanded participation in the coming years. After last year’s event the Committee, chaired by Steve Cornell, made the canny decision to move the tournament to late May with expectations of a more weather friendly week thus avoiding April’s rain. As if not to be trifled with, the weather gods brought rain on Wednesday and Thursday anyway, postponing matches and compelling a decision to move the players reception from Thursday to Friday afternoon. By Friday, however, the tournament was in full swing with the finest conditions prevailing throughout the finals on Monday.

As in past PCS tournaments, BTC members made their presence felt in a variety of events. Those winning titles were Mai Ichikawa-Abel (W35 S), Leslie Rose and Alisa Yee (W35 D), Kim Lackey (W50 D), Brent Abel (M55 & 60 D), Steve Cornell (M60 D), Judy Martine (W65 D) and Doug Kurdys (M70 S) … a 19 year string of victories was broken when perennial winner Doug Sykes was forced to withdraw with an injury before the M65 Singles finals. Finalists included Carolyn Wei and Ichikawa-Abel (W35 D), Erika Smith (W40 S - withdrawal), Lackey (W50 S), Linda Peltz and Esther Roitman (W65 D), and Rollie Odell (M75 S).
Jeff and Doug King defeated Steve and Chris Cornell in the Father/Son finals. Jim and Jenny Budd won in a tough 3 set battle over Jim Gay and Meghan Wardlaw in the Father/Daughter finals. An exceptional match of note was the one with Harold and Erika Smith, who came from 4-1 down in the 3rd set to win and exciting tie-breaker against considerably younger opponents.

No tournament can be run successfully without planning, coordination and committed volunteers. Credit goes to Steve Cornell and Lynne Rolley as well as Vivian Scharlach, Andy Salonen, Kay and John Lyman, Bill Rodgers, John Schelling, Steve Booth, Tom Richardson, Rich Green, Linda Peltz, Bill Wagley, Nick Baker, Mai Ichikawa-Abel, Steve Langmaid, Wendell Pierce, Harold Knutson and special thanks to Betty Cookson for offering so much of her time to manning the tournament desk. Finally thanks to the hard working Café personnel… Brian, Joan, Laura, Gaby, Malia and Andrew for the great Tournament Reception and BBQ.

See Photos of the 2008 ITF Pacific Coast Seniors Championship here.

See Photos of the 2007 ITF Pacific Coast Seniors Championship here.

Doug Sykes

Carolyn Wei

BTC Junior
Evan Rose
Exhibition Match