Metro Corporate League Recap: 2014 Winter Season Now Underway
The Metro Corporate Tennis League, presented by Advantage Tennis Clubs is a joint initiative of the Metrotennis Community Tennis Association (MCTA) and USTA/Eastern–Metro Region. Our League is divided into three levels of play, Intermediate (3.0-3.5), Advanced Intermediate (4.0) and Advanced (4.5+). We also offer an Advanced Beginner Clinic program for teams that are not ready to compete.
We are delighted to announce that we just finished playing the finals for the Fall 2013 season. We would like to congratulate the winners of our leagues, HBO (Intermediate Division), Credit Agricole (Advanced Intermediate Division) and Deloitte (Advanced Division).
Our finals and end-of-season parties took place at Roosevelt Island Racquet Club. To help culminate the Fall 2013 season we rented the entire Club for all guests to enjoy a tennis round-robin, buffet dinner and an open bar!
While we are excited that the Fall 2013 season is behind us, we are just as excited to start taking teams for the Winter 2014 season. We are expecting to have more than 50 corporate teams. The season will run from February to April. For more information regarding the League, please contact Luis Espinoza by e-mail at luis@metrotennis.com.
2014 Winter Season set to launch
The 2014 Winter Metro Corporate Tennis League will begin late January and run through April and includes a minimum of six matches. Each match is played for two hours on two courts, and tennis balls are provided. The 2014 Winter Season will conclude with an end-of-season party where all League participants will enjoy a buffet dinner and open bar, tennis, dancing, and other activities. The winners of all divisions advance to the semifinals or finals for their League.
Play format for each match consists of six individual matches played as regular “no-ad” sets:
►One women’s singles
►One men’s singles
►One women’s doubles
►One men’s doubles
►Two mixed-doubles
Levels of play are Advanced, Advanced Intermediate, Intermediate and Advanced Beginner (which consists of four matches and two teaching clinics.) Games won are totaled cumulatively throughout the season. The winners of all divisions (except the Advanced Beginner) advance to playoffs at the end-of-season party. In case of a tie, the head-to-head scores will be the tie-breaker. Coaching and player substitutions are permitted during the match. This allows for more players to get involved and creates a fun atmosphere.
All League Champions have the opportunity to advance to the National WTT playoffs.
The Corporate League emphasizes networking and social occasions, as well as opportunities to improve your tennis game. Each League night, refreshments are served after the matches, including hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer.
Special group tennis lessons are also available for teams at an additional fee at the Advantage Tennis Clubs—Manhattan Plaza, New York Tennis Club and Roosevelt Island Racquet Club.
Matches for the 2014 Winter League will be held weekday evenings at the following locations:
►CityView Racquet Club, located at 43-34 32nd Place, Penthouse in Long Island City, N.Y. ♦ (718) 389-6252
►Roosevelt Island Racquet Club, located at 281 Main Street in Roosevelt Island, N.Y. ♦ (212) 935-0250
►West Side Tennis Club, located at 1 Tennis Place Forest Hills, N.Y. ♦ (718) 268-2300
The fee is $2,100 per team for the season. Each team requires a minimum of four players, two women and two men to play an entire match, but you can carry as many players as you would like.
Present and past participants include:
ABN AMRO
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Allen & Overy
AMC Networks
AXA
Julius Baer
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd.
Barclays Capital
Bloomberg
BNP Paribas
Brown Brothers
Citibank
Citigroup
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Coleman Research Group
Colgate Palmolive
Colliers
Credit Agricole
Credit Suisse
Curtis Brown
Davis Polk & Wardell LLP
Deloitte & Touche LLP
D.E. Shaw & Company
Deutsche Bank
Dewey & LeBoeuf
DoubleClick
Ernst & Young LLP
Finra
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Forbes
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Gerson Lehrman Group
Goldman Sachs
Group SJR
HBO
Horizon Media
IBM Americas
ING Capital LLC
Integrity Financial Group
Investment Technology Group
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Lend Lease
McKinsey & Company
Merrill Lynch
Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation
Moody’s Investors Services
Nielsen
Nera
NYJTL
NYSE
Opera Solutions
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
Pfizer
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Proskauer Rose LLP
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Rockefeller & Company
Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & From LLP
Societe Generale
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Sullivan Cromwell LLP
TheStreet.com
Thomson Reuters
Tiffany & Company
Time Warner Cable
Turner Construction
Unilever
White & Case LLP
Yahoo
For more information, please visit www.metrotennis.com/corporate/main.html.
