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Turnstone players like playing for home fans.
As new French Open champions are crowned this weekend and depicted as role models for tennis players to follow, Fort Wayne will showcase on the IPFW tennis courts for shining examples of players for everyone to follow.
The nearly 20 athletes to emulate are competing in the third IPFW Wheelchair Tennis Open presented by Turnstone and IPFW on Saturday and Sunday.
Turnstone is helping prepare three of eight tennis players in its program for this weekend's competition. The IPFW Open is the first of eight tournaments the group is set to compete in this summer throughout the Midwest.
“The first tournament kind of gets you built up for all the future tournaments in finding those key things I really need to focus on,” said Kevin Hughes, one of five organizers for the event and who is playing in the tournament's B division.
The tournament is sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and consists of a men's and women's open division and men's and women's B division competitions. The divisions are marked by ability level from how players have done at previous competitions with open being the highest level followed by A, B, C and D divisions. The rules of wheelchair tennis are the same as stand-up tennis except that wheelchair players are “allowed two bounces of the ball” as stated in the USTA rulebook.
