Various videos of tennis activities in and around Pensacola, FL and Gulf Breze, FL during 2011.
November 20112011 Pensacola Pro Men's Futures Championships: We got a couple of videos of the final sets and/or tie-breakers from several of the various matches...
Doubles Final (set 2 - 43:14) Kamil Pajkowski (CAN) / Maciek Sykut (USA) [1] def. Chris Letcher (AUS) [3] / Brendan Moore (AUS) 6-3 6-4
Singles Final (set 3 - 49:33) Benjamin Balleret (MON) [3] def. Maverick Banes (AUS) 6-1 6-7(2) 6-4
Two QuickStart Match Demos (8:21) In between the Doubles and Singles Futures Finals, the kids put on two demo QuickStart Tennis Matches so that parents and spectators could learn a bit about the equipment used and see the reduced court sizes employed by QuickStart Tennis.
NOTE: HD available if you full screen a video
November 20112011 Pensacola Men's Futures Panel Each year, a couple of the guys playing in the Futures will join us for a little panel discussion to answer questions for the local tennis juniors and parents. This year, the guys were Nate Schnugg, Matt Short, Christian Harrison and Liam Broady. You can watch the 2011 Panel:
... The audio is a bit low - so you'll need to crank up the volume a bit ;-) NOTE: HD available if you full screen the video
November 2011Brock Sakey and Blaze Schwartz win the Doubles Wildcard into the 2011 Pensacola Men's Pro Futures! Brock and Blaze held off Scott Baehr and Whitney Mann to win the Men's Open Doubles at the 2011 City Clay Court Championships Nov 6, 2011 at The Club. You can watch the last set of the finals (44:32) ... NOTE: HD available if you full screen the video
Come watch Brock & Blaze play in a 1st Round Match Tuesday night at Roger Scott in the PENSACOLA FUTURES! Nightly feature matches begin at 5pm. Food and Drinks available Tues-Sun from Nancy's haute affairs.
November 2011Welll, the 2011 Pensacola Pro Men's Futures Championships are underway. The second singles wildcard finished up on Thrusday the 3rd. You can watch the last set of the finals (50:41) ... NOTE: HD available if you full screen the video
September 20112011 Bike Raiser: We got some video from rounds on court 7. There are 8 clips in all, some full rounds, others partial. ...for the best viewing, click the "full screen" control once the video starts
July 20112011 Summer Slam: Video of the Men's 0pen Division Final for your viewing pleasure. Finalists: Brock Sakey, Blaze Schwartz (wearing black & white) Winners: Taylor Fogleman, William Boyles. ...for the best viewing, click the "full screen" control once the video starts
May 20112011 Cattails: Only got one video - the finals were actually played on another court - but here's a 16 or so minute clip of the final games of an earlier match: Shaner & Rick vs Diana & Pete.
March/April 20112011 Pensacola Open Wheelchair Championships Video: Working on how to best record and present the match play videos.
Here's one of Houdet/Ammerlaan in the Men's Open Final - first game and most of the second in the second and final set.
Here's another of the final set of the Houdet/Vink Men's Open semi.
p.s. As with all the WMV videos, once the video starts, you can right-click and select full screen for a better view.
March 20112011 Pink Ribbon Tennis Tournament Video: Pink Magnolias East Final: E.Bothwell & I.Velkovska vs R.Dotson & D.McCuiston - Full Match Video.
NOTEs: Because this is our first attempt at getting full match videos, a couple of notes might be in order...
I didn't have a wind screen - sorry - so you'll hear the wind on Sunday.
It's a WMV played in media player. I'll try to compress the MOV version for mac folks who can't watch it as WMV - or try to find a good SWF compressor - but the MOV file is larger (3GB+) than I care to stream from the server and larger (and longer) than YouTube will allow. BTW, if you do watch, you can right-click and select zoom then fullscreen once it starts for a better view.
March 20112011 Calcutta For a Cure: The 2011 Pink Ribbon tourney kicked off on Thursday the 24th with the Calcutta For a Cure. Plenty of players and hecklers - and, even though most of the tennis wouldn't give Rafa nightmares (or maybe it would ;-), everyone seemed to have a GREAT time! Here are a couple of rounds (only 16 points each) - if you do watch, be SURE to click the fullscreen control once it starts for a better view 8-)
George, Pat, Terrie & Derick - only got the first 2:40 minues of this one before the camera batteries died - sorry.
Little Footwork Drill
March 20112011 USTA QuickStart Jamboree: Roger Scott Tennis Center in Pensacola, Fl. hosted the 2011 QuickStart Jamboree this year. All the kids had a great time, plenty of tennis instruction, plenty of prizes and stuff - and plenty of cake and refreshments. A visit from the Mayor Ashton Hayward topped thing off.