Addison Independent of Middlebury, Vermont
November 22, 2007
MIT plays host to tournaments
MIDDLEBURY - A high-level tennis tournament attracted sixteen of the stronger
tennis players in New England to Middlebury Indoor Tennis on
November 16, 17 and 18.
Errol Nattrass,
originally of South Africa and since 2001 Tennis Director at
the Windridge Tennis Camps in Roxbury and Craftsbury Common,
won the singles title in a 6-2, 6-3 final over
Conrad Olson, a junior at Middlebury College from Waterloo, Belgium.
On the way to the final, Nattrass overcame
a cramping Kord Schwarz, a 1997 all-American from Wheaton College, now
assistant men's tennis coach at Middlebury College,
by 6-3, 6-0.
Olson won his semi-final from Andrew Peters, who is also on the Middlebury
College men's team, 6-4, 6-1
Jeremy Howard,
a former varsity player at the University of Richmond presently
with Grand Slam Tennis Tours of Stowe, teamed with Nattrass to win the
doubles title 7-5, 6-2 over Schwarz and Olson.
With those wins, Natrass and Howard repeated their performance
of last year.
On November 3 and 4, the Rolling Thunder Series
began with draws being offered to intermediate players
only.
Donna and Bruce Baldwin of Vergennes
won the intermediate mixed doubles by defeating
Linda and Charles Peake of Orwell, 6-2, 7-6.
Lee Randlett of Middlebury defeated Chris Dayton ofCornwall
in advanced intermediate men's singles 6-2, 6-3.