CMS Hosts Campus Showdown Oct 8

The Biszantz Family Tennis Center at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges served as host site for a USTA / ITA One Day Campus Showdown Saturday, October 8, featuring a compass draw of 24 male collegiate, junior, and open players.

CMS was the first collegiate tennis program to host a Campus Showdown in March of 2008.  Saturday's was the fifth event of its kind that CMS has organized.

Event details:

Men's Singles - every player gets four (4) sets of tennis; open to any male junior, collegiate, or open player.

Draw Size: 32 - limited to the first 32 entered and paid before the entry deadline

Entry Fee: $15

Entry Deadline: Thursday, Oct 6 at 11:59 PM

Play Begins: 11:00 AM sharp (Player meeting at 10:55 AM)

Other:
* One Day Campus Showdowns are a joint USTA / ITA program designed to bring together junior, collegiate, and open players for competition on college campuses.
* Compass draw format with 1st round winners and 1st round losers separated and then playing out in their sections.
* This is an unattached, individual, open event that does not count against a student-athlete's or team's dates of competition
* No coaching allowed
* No umpires, no prizes, and no declared winner

For more info, contact tournament director Paul Settles