Hello TCD members,

It’s time to get back in your tennis and pickleball routines as you regroup with

your teammates and hit the courts!! Fall TCD is just around the corner!!

The TCD Membership meeting is this Thursday, August 22nd and we would love for you to join us.

We are currently accepting nominations for The Cindy Brinker Simmons

Sportsmanship Award, Volunteer of the Year and Captain of the Year

Award. Keep your eyes and ears open for the person you think would be

perfect for these prestigious accolades. Just CLICK HERE to access the nomination submission forms.

Speaking of sportsmanship, we have now made the Team Sportsmanship

Award “a permanent fixture within the TCD organization.” Being a good

sport is simple, gracious and rewarding. Go forth and be kind!!

KEY UPCOMING DATES/EVENTS:

• General Membership Meeting: August 22, 10:00 a.m., Bent Tree Country Club, Dallas ** We will vote on our proposed Bylaw amendments at this meeting. **
• Captains' Appreciation Event: August 23, ** RSVP required **
• Ladies Tournament: September 5, **Location information will be posted a week prior to the tournament **
• Mixed Season begins: September 8
• Love-60 Season begins: September 10
• Love-50 Season begins: September 11
• Ladies Season begins: September 12
• Ladies & Mixed Pickleball Seasons begin: September 13

Please read each league Directors articles as well as other important dates

and deadlines that pertain to each league.

Happy tennis!!

Gail Trostel

Presiding Director

presiding@tcdtennis.org

Hello ladies,

Hope everyone has had a wonderful summer and is ready for the fall season! Our amazing volunteers have been working very hard to get us

through registration, placement, and preparing for our Ladies Tournament

on September 5th!

Many thanks to all the captains for getting your teams registered! Our league has 342 teams for the upcoming season.

Our Fall General Membership meeting is August 22nd, 10:00 a.m., at Bent Tree

Country Club. This is a very important meeting to hear about all the

activity within our organization and get your questions answered, so we

hope you can join us!

Placement has been finalized. Please check the Ladies website for your

assigned flight. Scheduling is in the works and will be posted by August 20th.

Wishing everyone a great fall season!

Shelley Vick

Ladies Director

ladies@tcdtennis.org

Fall registration is closed and team placement is final. Welcome back all of our existing teams and our new Love-50 and Love-60 teams!

Please be sure to check league websites for your team’s Fall 2024 flight, as they have been updated with new flight assignments according to placement.

As we prepare for the upcoming season, please start hydrating NOW. Also, start practicing during the same time of day you will be playing matches so your body will be heat acclimated by the time we begin match play. Please take time to review the rule changes regarding extreme temperature thresholds that were put in place last year.

Please don’t miss the TCD General Membership Meeting on August 22 at 10:00 a.m. at Bent Tree Country Club. The Board of Directors will have lots of important information and announcements, and we will go over recent Bylaws changes. It’s a great opportunity for you to ask questions, and meet our board members in person!

Looking forward to seeing you on the courts soon!

Shelley Wainer

Love-50/60 Director

love50and60@tcdtennis.org

Hello fellow tennis enthusiasts!

Welcome back Mixed Doubles players and a big welcome to our new teams!

Placement is complete, and our fall flights are posted on the website. There are a lot of things happening over the next few weeks.

Key dates to keep in your calendar:

• August 20th: Schedules will be available on the TCD website
• August 22nd: General Membership meeting will be at Bent Tree CC, 10:00 a.m. (All are welcome)
• September 4th: All Mixed home match times must be entered on the website. 
• September 8th: Mixed League season begins
• October 4th: Player Add/Frozen Player Deadline - Last day to add players/ freeze players in Mixed

These past few weeks have brought us some extreme temperatures so please continue to hydrate. Remember to have fun, competitive and amazing sportsmanship when stepping onto the courts.

Captains, if you need a few extra players, please check the TCD website as we have several players of all skill levels looking for teams.

Looking forward to another great season of Tennis!



See you on the courts!

Alma Gomez

Mixed Director

mixed@tcdtennis.org

Kids are gearing up for school and vacations are ending. Ready, set…Fall Season 2024 begins Friday, September 13! Fingers crossed it’ll start cooling down in the next few weeks…whew, it’s hot!

Schedules will be posted Tuesday, August 20. Your Flight Coordinators have been assigned and will be reaching out to all captains in the next couple of weeks.

Hope to see you at our General Membership Meeting at Bent Tree Country Club at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, August 22. This venue provides an opportunity where Rules are reviewed, and captains/players can ask questions. If you are unable to attend, the Meeting will be recorded and posted on our TCD Facebook page.

Stay cool and remember to hydrate!

Renee Hinterlong

Pickleball Director

pickleball@tcdtennis.org

“You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is your respect for others."-- Steffi Graf

TENNIS! TENNIS! TENNIS! It is time to play tennis again!! I don’t know about you but I am ready for some fun Fall tennis! Have a great season and I will see you at the General Membership Meeting.

Rule Change/Update:

Section III.TEAM PLACEMENT, B.1 (Replace a-j with below)

a. First Place Finishers:

i. A team finishing first in its division will automatically move to the division above. The first-place finisher would be considered as the sixth position in a 9 or 10 team flight or fourth position in a 5 or 6 team flight in the division above.

ii. A team finishing first in two (2) consecutive seasons will be placed two (2) divisions higher UNLESS that division is to an Open division.

iii. A team finishing first in three (3) consecutive seasons will be placed three (3) divisions higher UNLESS that division is to an Open division.

b. Decisive Flight Wins:

i. Any team, winning a season by 16 or more points in the Ladies and Mixed Leagues and by 12 or more points in the Love-50 and Love-60 leagues OR a team completing a season without losing any lines, will be considered, at the discretion of the Tennis Placement Task Force, for new placement into a more appropriate flight.

ii. A team finishing first by 10 or more points in its first season, and first in its second season, will be placed three (3) divisions higher UNLESS the division is to an Open division. 

c. Last Place Finishers:

i. A team finishing last in its division will move to the division below. The last place finisher would be considered as the fifth position in a 9 or 10 team flight or third position in a 5 or 6 team flight in the division below.

ii. A team finishing last in two (2) consecutive seasons will be placed two (2) divisions lower.

iii. A team finishing last in three (3) consecutive seasons will be placed three (3) divisions lower.

d. Decisive Flight Losses:

i. A team finishing last by 10 or more points in its first season, and last again in its second season, will be placed three (3) divisions lower.

e. Other Potential Movement:

i. A team finishing second in its division may move to the division above, subject to openings in that higher division.

ii. A team finishing second-to-last in its division will move to the division below, unless an opening remains in the division in which it competed after all other team movements have been made.

Karen Eubanks

Rules Director

rules@tcdtennis.org

MEMBERSHIP NEWS!

NOMINATIONS BEING ACCEPTED FOR

VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR 

Officially named "The Phyllis Brennan Award", the prestigious VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD was created in 1992 by the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation and is presented annually to an outstanding volunteer for TCD. The recipient, nominated by the TCD Membership and selected by the TCD Board of Directors, will typically have served countless hours and be known to go "above and beyond" in their volunteerism and service to Tennis Competitors of Dallas.

Phyllis Brennan was a volunteer for MCB for over 20 years including being the ball girl chairman for the MCB sponsored Virginia Slims of Dallas. Phyllis passed in 1992 and this award honors her memory and love of tennis. This year's Volunteer of the Year will be announced at the Volunteer Luncheon in October. I hope many of you will complete the Volunteer of the Year award nomination form so we can honor an outstanding TCD volunteer.

Laura Schussler

Membership Director

membership@tcdtennis.org

Cate Brennan, Renee Hinterlong (2023 Volunteer of the Year), Cindy Brinker Simmons, and Suzie Brennan

TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP UPDATES

Hello TCD Captains! We hope everyone has had a wonderful summer and is as excited as we are to get back on court! As we prepare to begin our fall season, we wanted to share some of the updates with our newest award……THE TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD.

We had such great participation and feedback from the spring season, that it was a unanimous decision to make this award a permanent fixture within the TCD organization. We did make some updates and changes we’d like to share:

1. This is a VOLUNTARY award, meaning you DO NOT have to participate if you do not wish to. If you choose not to participate in the rating of your opponents, your team will not be considered as a possible winner in your flight.
2. When finalizing potential winners, comments are considered. We are looking at the OVERALL rating of each team and read each comment left in the comment boxes. This is extremely important in the event of a tie.

Let me share how I as a captain of three TCD teams have participated in this new process:

1. At each match, when I gather my team to give out balls and tell them who their opponents will be, I tell them to start off with a 5 (which is the highest rating listed). If after the match, they feel that their opponents were pleasant, gave fair line calls, shook hands at the net and the overall experience was good, the line stays with a five.
2. If there are issues, the points go down.
3. I do that for each line played and at the end, I average the number.

This is YOUR system to use, and we want you to use it in a way that makes sense to YOU! The comments should pertain to the players, how they treated your team and how you felt playing them, NOT the facility, as the players cannot control things like how clean the bathroom was or if the courts were damaged or whether or not the pro shop had my favorite Gatorade flavor!

AGAIN, this is supposed to promote GOOD OVERALL TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP! We know this is an extra step and we deeply appreciate the efforts you as Captains give to your team as well as TCD! THANK YOU!

TCD WANTS YOU!!!

Calling ALL POTENTIAL VOLUNTEERS!!! It’s that time of year again where we are in the process of gathering the Nominating Committee to interview and select the slate of Officers for the 2025 TCD Board of Directors.

If you’ve ever thought, “I could get more involved with an organization that is so AWESOME”, then TCD wants YOU!!! Please reach out to me for more information, I LOVE TCD and would LOVE to share with you all the great

opportunities that we have available on the TCD Board.

Best Wishes for an AMAZING Fall Season!

Lesa Wracher

Past Presiding Director

pastpres@tcdtennis.org

IMPORTANT DATES...

August 20: Schedules Available Online

August 22: General Membership Meeting

August 23: Captains' Appreciation Event

September 4: All Mixed Tennis home match times must be entered

September 5: Ladies Tennis Tournament

September 6: All Love-50/60 Tennis home match times must be entered September 8: All Ladies Tennis home match times must be entered

September 8: Mixed Tennis League Begins

September 9: All Ladies/Mixed Pickleball home match times must be entered

September 10: Love-60 Tennis League Begins

September 11: Love-50 Tennis League Begins

September 12: Ladies Tennis League Begins

September 13: Ladies/Mixed Pickleball Leagues Begin