"I'm a huge tennis fan, and of course can't get away
from the beach and volleyball, so
it was only natural that I try beach tennis-
and I loved it!"
Last year, Beach Tennis USA
held tournaments and "learn and play" events
in cities along the East Coast.net.com
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There also will be a
"Fun Division" for those who are more interested in
learning a new sport while enjoying a fun day
at the beach.
"Given Southern California's fitness-minded culture and extended beach
season
, we're confident that beach tennis will be embraced by both serious
athletes as well as recreational
beachgoers this year," said Marc Altheim,
Founder and Commissioner of Beach Tennis USA.beachtennisusa
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Australian Rules Football, known alternatively as "Aussie rules" and
"footy," is a high-energy
, physical game played between two teams of 18
players. There are 80 minutes in which to do this.
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Beach Tennis Open Championship held last Labor Day weekend in Long
Beach, NY, featured players from
Virginia, Massachusetts, South Carolina,
Aruba and Holland as well as New York City.
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America's Newest Sport Kicks Off 2006 National Tour On California Sand
NEW YORK, Beach
Tennis USA, the organization that
launched the sport of beach tennis in North America last year,
will kick off
its much-anticipated 2006 National Tour in April with two weekend events in
Southern
California. Once
you start playing, you can't stop.beachtennisusa.In 1895, when 12 clubs decided
to split from the Northern Rugby Football Union, few could have envisaged that 100 years later, the
game of rugby league would become the second most popular spectator sport in Britain and spread as far
and wide as Australia, New Zealand and even Papua New Guinea.
The backs are generally regarded as the
attacking players and usually have more pace than the bigger more powerful forwards who are usually
the 'yard' makers.
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Players wishing to compete in either of Beach Tennis USA's California
weekend
tournaments should contact James Russo at (212) 318-1828 or
jrusso@beachtennisusa.allsportsmarket
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Company founders Marc Altheim and Fredric Finkelstein also
established a governing body, the National
Beach Tennis Association, in
anticipation of the sport being played competitively throughout the
U. Each team also have 4 substitutes/replacements available to bring on at any appropriate moment in
the game.
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Beach tennis is played on a regulation beach volleyball court.
Two teams take
part in a game of rugby league with 13 players on each team at 'kick off'.
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"I don't think anyone
ever thought you could get sandy playing tennis. For a full listing of events on the Beach Tennis
USA
2006 National Tour, visit http://www.rl guinea
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newscom. Both California events will feature high-caliber play
by local
tennis pros as well as top-ranked players from last season's tour. Using
regulation
tennis rackets, two players on each team try to hit a tennis ball
back and forth, directly over the
net, without letting it hit the sand."
After the California events, Beach Tennis USA will head
cross-country to
Florida and then work its way up the East Coast.guinea clock
I
found out first-hand and look
forward to the beach tennis events in 2006,
especially when they come to the West Coast," said Sinjin
Smith, beach
volleyball legend and former president of the Association of Volleyball
Professionals
(AVP). Through an aggressive grass-roots campaign,
the company introduced beach tennis to people
of all ages and skill levels as
over 25,000 Americans played the sport between last May and September
.S. They started the company
with the ultimate goal of making beach tennis a mainstream American sport
. "This game is addictive.net. The Australian Rules Football season begins
with an exhibition game
on March 1st, during the Australian summer season.com is dedicated to increasing the exposure and
popularity
of a variety of sports across the globe through its international
derivative-based sports financial
exchange," said Chris Rabalais, CEO of
AllSportsMarket.
spectator forwards
(Photo: http://www. Only
one
hit per team is allowed on each volley and scoring is the same as in
tennis: 15 - 30 - 40, with no
-ad at deuce. To
learn more, visit http://www.com. "ASM is happy to welcome Aussie Rules fans into
the
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And
the U.com (ASM), the world's
first global sports financial exchange
, announced today its initial public
offering (IPO) for Australian Rules Football on Sunday, February
26, at
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For additional information about the upcoming AllSportsMarket.
The object of the game is for one team to score more points than the other team.
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ASM is a rapidly
-
expanding market, and has forged a number of league partnerships with major
international sports
teams. A team can score points through scoring a 'try' or kicking a 'goal'.
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If a player's serve hits
the net
and goes over, it counts-just as in beach volleyball. From then on ASM traders will be able
to buy and sell sports
derivatives tied to the performance of Australian Football League (AFL) teams
,
including the Adelaide Crows, Sydney Swans, and West Coast Eagles.com family, and expects the sport
to excite and captivate
current enthusiasts as well as those who have yet to be introduced to the
game.com .kick replacements
Each teams '13' is made up of 7 'backs' and 6 'forwards' .
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Beach Tennis Invades West Coast
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Santa Monica will host the tour's first tournament, April
8-9, while Long
Beach has been chosen as the site for Beach Tennis USA's April 22-23
tournament
.S."
ASM is the world's first sports stock market, allowing global users to
trade self-sustaining
performance-based sports derivatives on a worldwide
marketplace.rl emerging
About Beach Tennis USA
Based in New York City, Beach Tennis USA is committed to introducing
Americans of all ages
to the competitive excitement and recreational benefits
of beach tennis. Relatively unknown in the
United States, Australian Rules Football
traces its roots to Rugby and early Gaelic football, and
is defined by the
fast and free movement of the game's ball, which is slightly larger than the
traditional
American football.league replacements
Latest Offering by World's First Global Sports Financial Exchange Allows
'Aussie Rules' Fans to Buy, Sell Derivatives Tied to Team Performance
MIAMI, AllSportsMarket
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The founders of Beach Tennis USA are Marc Altheim, a New York City real
estate developer
, and his uncle, Fredric Finkelstein, a New York marketing and
advertising executive, and Sjoerd de
Vries, of Aruba.substitutes replacements
Tennis rackets
and tennis balls will be provided and there is no fee to play.
For the
tournaments, Beach Tennis USA will draw its talent pool from 2005's top-ranked
players
as well as newly recruited pros in the cities that will host the tour
events.net.kicking pace
In addition to
pro level
competition, events in each city along the tour will include teaching clinics
for adults
and children who want to learn how to play beach tennis.spread substitutes
AllSportsMarket.com Sets the Stage for IPO of
Australian Rules Football
Traders buy and sell sports derivatives and benefit from
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