{"id":41967,"date":"2019-01-23T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=41967"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:07:15","slug":"piercys-win-kennett-sq-cc-platform-tennis-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=41967","title":{"rendered":"Piercys win Kennett Sq. CC Platform Tennis doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Hannah Christopher<\/strong>, <em>Special to The Times<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8917\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50133367_10157065542247458_3782390952409169920_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8917\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50133367_10157065542247458_3782390952409169920_n-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KSGCC.com club champions Todd and Paula Piercy and Runners Up Kim Alicknavitch and Walter Puddifer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 If you happened to drive down Rt. 82 this past Monday you may have seen some people outdoors playing &#8220;paddle&#8221; on \u00a0the mini courts on a day where the temperature was 13 degrees! \u00a0Platform tennis is a game that was developed in 1928 and was created so that people could continue playing their racquet sports in all types of weather and get outside during the winter months. \u00a0The game is addictive and the sport \u00a0is conducive for all ages. \u00a0In fact recently at Kennett Country Club the championships for the mixed doubles was held and the majority of the people playing were over the age of 50.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Part of the attraction of the game of Paddle is that you get fresh air and you can play this game off the wires and have points that can last a very long time. \u00a0There are plenty of opportunities to learn the game locally. \u00a0At Kennett Country Club\u00a0they offer clinics for young people, and will offer lessons to those interested by our Professionals. \u00a0 In order to learn\u00a0the game it is helpful if you have\u00a0some decent hand\/eye coordination but you do not need to be a former tennis \u00a0or squash player. Indeed\u00a0many of the players are older individuals who used to play lacrosse, or field hockey, as well as runners, football players and many other sports.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday the Mixed Club\u00a0Championships were held\u00a0at KSGCC and the dynamic duo of Todd\u00a0and Paula Piercy won in a two setter in the finals over Kim Alicknavitch and Walter Puddifer. Todd\u00a0and Paula are a married couple who played tennis in their younger years at Lehigh University. \u00a0Alicknavitch played lacrosse\u00a0when at University of Delaware, and Puddifer was a former Jockey in the horse arena.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/ksgcc.com\/\">KSGCC.com<\/a> or contact Hannah <a href=\"mailto:CHristopher@comcast.net\">CHristopher@comcast.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannah Christopher, Special to The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 If you happened to drive down Rt. 82 this past Monday you may have seen some people outdoors playing &#8220;paddle&#8221; on \u00a0the mini courts on a day where the temperature was 13 degrees! \u00a0Platform tennis is a game that was developed in 1928 and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11880,7496,11879],"class_list":["post-41967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-championships","tag-kennett-square-country-club","tag-paddle-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41968,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41967\/revisions\/41968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}