YTF Hosts Three Collegiate Events

The Youth Tennis Foundation of Florida (YTF) hosted three collegiate events this Fall, as it has for several years now. Two of the events were Bedford Cup tournaments for all D-1 college teams in the state.

The first tournament was the Women’s event, which had some weather problems. The event was scheduled to take place at Florida Gulf Coast but a hurricane forced a postponement. The tournament was rescheduled to take place at the University of Miami a few weeks later. After a full day of play on Friday, rains caused the entire tournament to be canceled for this year, unfortunately.

The second event was the men’s tournament which was held at the University of Florida complex over the weekend of October 25-27. Every D-1 team in the state participated. Fortunately, sunshine and blue skies were present for all three days. This event began in 2011 and has been held every year since then at various locations ever since, except for a Covid year.

The third event was the YTF “Small College Championships.” Tournament Director Andrew Dickens, head men’s and women’s coach for Southeastern University, reports that it was best year ever. It is in its sixth year.

The tournament was held at the Dave Beerman Tennis Center in Lakeland. This Eve is sponsored and funded, in part, by the YTF. It involves D-2 schools; NAIA schools and a Junior College team from St. Petersburg College. Over 100 players from a dozen colleges competed.

Photo Gallery

Above: Florida National won the red draw and were the runners up. Alara Juelide defeated Stefani Evgenieva 6-3 4-6 10-4. Saint Leo Theo Renoux won Red draw / Florida southerns Hunter Nussbaum was the runner up. Score: 7-6 5-7 10-6. At the time the most recent issue was sent to the printer, Florida Southern was in finals for singles in black draw - match still needed to be played.

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Source: YTF