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APTA Court Grants Proving Successful in Growing the Game
Mindful that a stated mission of the APTA is to grow the great sport of Platform Tennis, as well as the quandary that it’s hard to justify courts if you don’t yet have players, and yet it’s hard to attract new players if you don’t have courts for them to play on, the Board of Directors of the APTA decided several years ago to experiment with a Grant Program. The concept was and is to solicit proposals for grants to help build publicly accessible platform tennis courts in areas where the sport has great growth potential. More |
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UNC Gains 3 New CourtsHow do you give a recreation director the goose bumps? Give him the space of eight tennis courts and let him create a multi-purpose recreational facility for a major university. Marty Pomerantz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, had just that opportunity. His new facility includes tennis, sand volleyball, basketball, in-line skating and three new platform tennis courts. More |
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Platform Tennis Goes to School
Platform tennis creates committed players, including young players. At Georgetown University, Yale University and McDonogh School in Maryland, enterprising students have created platform tennis programs they hope will spread the word to other athletes and endure after they depart. More |
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Paddle Shack
Sunset Ridge Country Club (Northfield, IL) member Betsy Noxon writes about her introduction to platform tennis in the February 2009 issue of North Shore Magazine. She had the fortune to get her start on the court with Sunset Ridge's pro Peter Berka - PPTA professional and accomplished top tier men's player. More |
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Resident Elected to Hall of Fame
The Garden City News Online covers the induction of Sharon Hummers and Winnie Hatch into the Platform Tennis Hall of Fame. More |
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3 Steps to Winning Your ServeFrom the PTM Archives - by Todd Ward, PPTA Professional and APTA Board Member
The most feared shot in the game is the return of serve. I see many servers get unnerved before ever putting a ball in the court. The game of platform tennis is a game of routine. Often times, many of the same shots are hit again and again. Defending the return of serve should be no different. More |
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Lob ThoughtsFrom the PTM Archives - by Adam Boyce, PPTA Professional
As the platform tennis season grows near, it is time to set goals for the upcoming year. One simple, but important, goal should be to cut down on the frequency of missed lobs. More |
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What would you do?
The results of the Chicago Charities men's tournament could have been much different were it not for the exemplary sportsmanship of Mike Stulac and Mike Marino. More |
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