Tennis: USTA Senior Father-Son titles on the line

Richard Dunn

NEWPORT BEACH - A record 120 players will participate in the sixth

annual United States Tennis Association Senior Father-Son Hardcourt

Championships today through Sunday at the Newport Beach Tennis Club.

The national father/son event features a tournament-record 35 teams in

the 60s age division, where fathers must be at least 60 to be eligible.

Sons can be any age.

It is the first year the 70s division is sanctioned by the USTA. Fathers

in that division must be at least 70.

The sixth-seeded team in the 70s is 70-year-old Bill Davis of Seminole,

Okla., and his 17-year-old son, Chris. Charlie Cox and his son, Bud, are

seeded first.

In the 60s, Dave Grant and his son, Geoff, are seeded first, while Corona

del Mar’s Scott Davis and his father, Gordon, are seeded second. Scott

Davis is the head professional at Newport Beach Tennis Club.

Jim Nelson of Newport Beach Tennis Club and his son, Brad, and former

Adoption Guild Tennis Classic men’s open champion Bruce Man Son Hing and

his father, Ivor, are playing in the 60s.

Newport Beach’s John Appleby and his father, Addison, are in the 70s.

Norma Veal is the tournament director. The public is welcome to attend at

no cost. The finals are scheduled for Sunday, with opening rounds today

and quarterfinals and semifinals Saturday.Details: (949) 644-0050, ext.

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