Pearl River To Host Boys League IVB Tennis Tournament

Pearl River High School will be the scene of the 2011 Boys Tennis League IVB Tournament Tuesday and Wednesday, with matches starting at 3 p.m. both days.

Section IVB includes Albertus Magnus, Nanuet, Nyack, Pearl River and Tappan Zee.

The number of players and specific match-ups will be determined by the coaches shortly before the opening serve on Tuesday.

At the same time, the League IVA tournament will be played at Clarkstown South, with Clarkstown North, Clarkstown South, Suffern, East Ramapo and North Rockland competing. 

The top eight singles players and doubles teams advance from the league championships to the conference championships to be held at Clarkstown South on May 17 and 18. The top three in singles and doubles from that tournament go on to the Section 1 Tournament May 24-27 at A.F. Veteran Town Park in Ardsley.

Strategy in this tourney can be critical and may result in players who have competed in singles throughout the regular season being paired up as doubles partners.  The alignment of each team’s competitors is determined usually based on where the coaches thinks their players are best suited to advance to conference play. 

The tournament is single elimination in both singles and doubles with the top four players and doubles teams in each classification receiving seeds into the conference championships.  Matches are determined by the best two out of three sets and no player can compete in more than two matches on either day of the tournament.

The advantage of being seeded is the certainty of a more advantageous position in the first round of the conference tournament and the opportunity to avoid being matched with a highly-rated foe.