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  • LOCOS GRAND PRIX

Indoor Inter Club Championships

Jan 17 - Feb 25

Colorado Springs, CO

INTER

Players

Singles

92

Doubles

118

Inter Open

LOCOS Grand Prix Tournament

Open
Draws

  • tennis Men's Singles
  • tennis Women's Singles
  • Men's Doubles
  • Women's Doubles
  • Mixed Doubles

Tournament Rules & Format

  • The LOCOS Grand Prix® tournaments – Inter Open, El Paso, Quackenbush and CS Open – are the most prestigious individual competitions in LOCOS tennis.
The Inter Open is an open-level tournament with a B Draw and C Draw. The Open Draw is staggered so that lower-level players compete vs other lower-level players in the opening rounds before feeding into a match vs a higher-ranked player. Players who lose in any of the early rounds of the Open Draw (up until the quarterfinals) get relegated to the B Draw. Players who lose in the early rounds of the B Draw enter the C Draw.
 
There will be three separate champions: Open Champion, B Champion, and C Champion. Lower draws do not feed back into the upper draws; relegated players remain relegated.
 
Matches are regular best of 3 sets, 10 point match tiebreaker in lieu of a 3rd set.

COURT LOCATION

RANCHO TENNIS

Ranch-themed park, complete with a “Hay Loft” pavilion to sit under as you wait for a court. And, alas, pretty likely that you will have to wait: busy courts, with a constant stream of junior tennis instruction on weekend mornings and adult USTA on weeknights. Windscreens on the fences (though not always unfurled for use), good views of the mountains, and the occasional low-flyover by a plane taking off from the nearby Air Force strip, which kind of gives a taste of what it might be like to play at the US Open in Flushing Meadows, right next to La Guardia.

 

 

 

VENEZIA EST. 2017

Apparently a group of elementary school kids got together and started writing letters to the mayor of Colorado Springs, demanding a new park in what was at the time (and still is?) the fastest growing area in the city. Good to know that city planning around here is being spearheaded by 9 year old children! Venezia Park (named after a former El Paso County Commissioner, John Venezia) was the first new park built in the city in almost 15 years. Multiple playgrounds, courts, pavilions for special events, and a splash pad. And take a look downhill from the courts to the soccer pitch: watching soccer players running footwork drills should get you thinking why you never see tennis players out on the courts with cones and whistles running footwork drills. My excuse? Burritos!

BLUE & GREEN

Medium-light grit hard courts. There are some developing surface cracks and spots where the paint is peeling, but nothing to hinder play. Great visibility on court and relatively low noise, which is a little surprising given the busy road just above where the courts are (be wary driving by: shanked tennis balls can cross four lanes of traffic, which seems more than a bit treacherous). Also, there are four separate pickleball courts, which doesn’t mean pickleballers won’t try to play on the tennis courts, but it does mean that they at least have somewhere else to go.

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