Tennis News

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The ICC Spring Pickleball Battle 2023

The ICC’s first ever Spring Pickleball Battle was at the end of March and was quite a lot of fun! The weekend event started with a party and pickleball exhibition with our Director of Pickleball Andrew Curtis and Tennis Professional Tiffany Davis playing with some of George Mason’s best!

Our champions in the three categories, Women’s Doubles, Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles, made pickleball history for the club.

Spring 2023 Pickleball Battle Champions

Steve Plott & Fred Guminner – Men’s Doubles

Lorena McCalister & Michele Krisandra –

Women’s Doubles

Steve Plott & Teresa Plott – Mixed Doubles

DMV Pickleball League Starts

With the significant growth of pickleball in the area, we have joined a new competitive interclub program! This pickleball league will play on Saturdays at 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. The season will start May 6th and teams will play other DMV area clubs for 5 weeks. June 10th will be a rain date/makeup week. The playoffs will be on June 17th, at 1:00 p.m. at Kenwood Country Club.

If you are interested in finding out more about the DMV pickleball league or would like to come watch a home match, please contact the Pickleball Director, Andrew Curtis at (571) 241-9155 or the tennis shop at (703) 449-3432 or tennis.shop@internationalcc.com

New Pickleball Machine

The club has purchased a pickleball machine. The pickleball machine rates are the same as our current tennis ball machine rates, $12 for a half-hour, and $24 for an hour. We also offer a Ball Machine Club annual fee of $250/per individual or $300/family. Membership allows you to have unlimited use of the ball machine and covers the court cost during ball machine use.

Outdoor Courts Are Open

The four outdoor Har-Tru tennis courts are open and in use! There is no charge for an outdoor court reservation, but guest fees still apply to the indoor courts. Remember, you can always get some extra practice on the backboard on the north side of court 7 or schedule the ball machine indoors.

If you are moving indoors from the outdoor courts, please be sure to clean your tennis shoes properly before entering the tennis bubble.

Junior Tennis Summer Camps Begin

June 19th

Junior tennis summer camps begin immediately after the end of the Spring Session of the junior tennis clinics and have similar groupings based on age and level. The summer tennis camps are scheduled around the weekday swim team practices so that kids can participate in both, and camp dates/times are subject to change with swim team practices.

Summer Tennis Camp Dates:

Camp 1 | June 19th, 20th and 22nd

Camp 2 | June 26th, 27th and 29th

Camp 3 | July 10th, 11th and 13th

Junior Summer Tennis Camp Groups:

• QUICKSTART/BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE:

Ages: 5-12 Years | Cost: Members $81 Times: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

• INTERMEDIATE/TOURNAMENT:

Ages: 9-16 Years | Cost: Members $114 Times: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Sports Camps Begin July 17th

The popular weekly sports camps runs for four weeks beginning Monday, July 17th, and is designed to encourage kids to experience all the activities that the International Country Club has to offer.

Sports Camp 2023 Dates:

Week 1 July 17th – 20th

Week 2 July 24th – 27th

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

July 31st – 3rd

August 7th –10th

August 14th – 17th

The full-day camp begins at 9:30 a.m. with a golf lesson, continues with tennis instruction and play, and ends at

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