Tryzub hosts spring tennis tourney (05/25/97)

Tryzub hosts spring tennis tourney

HORSHAM, Pa. - The first Ukrainian outdoor tennis tournament of the 1997 season was held here at Tryzubivka during the very rainy and windy weekend of May 3-4. The tournament, which started at the nearby upper Dublin Racquet Club's indoor courts and later moved to Tryzubivka, was played in two categories, men's singles and mixed doubles.

In the men's singles the winner was George Hrabec of Boston, who in the final matched defeated Stephen Sosiak from Northern New Jersey by the score of 7-6 , 6-4. In the semifinals Mr. Hrabec won over Ihor Buhaj of Bethlehem, Pa., 6-2, 1-6, 6-0, and Mr. Sosiak won over Jerry Tymkiw of Philadelphia 6-4, 6-4.

Mr. Tymkiw won third place with a 8-6 pro set win against Mr. Buhaj in the feed-in consolation tournament final. Other notable matches in this category were Alexander Mychaluk's win over Boris Tatunchak, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, and George Popel's win over Anatol Pytlar, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

In the mixed doubles finals, the daughter-father team of Tania and George Sawchak, who could not play in singles competition due to other USCAK activities, defeated the team of Melany Sarachman and Mr. Hrabec by the score of 6-1, 6-0.

In the semifinals the Sawchaks defeated Luba and Ihor Buhaj, 6-0, 6-3, and Sarachman-Hrabec team won a hard three-setter over Slava Lee and Mr. Tatunchak 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Third place went to Lee-Tatunchak when the Buhajs had to withdraw from the tournament.

Tournament was sponsored by USO Tryzub and directed by Messrs. Hrabec and Sawchak, who presented trophies to winners, finalists and third-place finishers.

The next Ukrainian tennis tournament will be the Eastern Championships of the Ukrainian Sports Association of the U.S.A. and Canada (USCAK) at Soyuzivka during the Fourth of July weekend. The next tournament at Tryzubivka will be the fall tournament scheduled for the weekend of October 4-5.

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