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Collecting Free World Team Tennis Autographs By Mail

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Each year, twelve teams compete in the World Team Tennis (WTT) Pro League and are comprised of some of the sports top athletes. The season runs for three weeks during summer and attracts over 150,000 fans annually.

If you would like to request a signed photo from any of the players, you may do so by writing in care of their World Team Tennis team. When preparing your request, always handwrite a brief letter and be complimentary to the addressee. A SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) will help to increase your chances of receiving a response and, if requesting a signed photo, a 9×12 envelope would be ideal. The best way to prepare an autograph request is to fold the 9×12 SASE, with postage affixed, three ways and place it inside of a #10 business sized envelope. Be sure to place your letter inside, as well. Address the #10 envelope to the proper athlete in care of his/her World Team Tennis team and take it to the post office for mailing.

Below is a list of the current twelve teams and rosters, which can be used for the purpose of fan mail. While there is no guarantee of receiving a response, following the above guidelines and using the correct mailing address will help to increase your chances of building an autograph collection from some of the top superstars of tennis.

Team Name: Boston Lobsters Address: P.O. Box 381985, Cambridge, MA 01238-1985 Roster: Thomas Blake Amir Hadad Todd Martin Martina Navratilova Andy Perianu Nicole Pratt Kristen Schlukebir

Team Name: Delaware Smash Address: 1007 Market St., DuPont Building D-1083, Wilmington, DE 19898 Roster: Tres Davis Angela Haynes Liezel Huber Eric Nunez

Team Name: Hartford FoxForce Address: 21 Waterville Road, Avon, CT 06001 Roster: Goran Dragicevic Lisa McShea Meghann Shaughnessy Abigail Spears Glenn Weiner

Team Name: New York Buzz Address: Parks/Tennis, c/o City Hall, 105 Jay Street, Schenectady, NY 12305 Roster: Viktoriya Kutuzova K.C. Corkery Scott Lipsky Julie Ditty

Team Name: New York Sportimes Address: c/o Sportime at Harbor Island, P.O. Box 783, Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Roster: Alex Bogomolov Jr. John McEnroe Ashley Harkleroad Martina Hingis David Martin Vladka Uhlirova

Team Name: Philadelphia Freedoms Address: 1007 Market St., DuPont Building D-1083, Wilmington, DE 19898 Roster: Casey Dellacqua Freddy Neimeyer Daniel Nestor Lisa Raymond Chanda Rubin Rennae Stubbs Jim Thomas Venus Williams

Team Name: Houston Wranglers Address: c/o Westside Tennis Club, 1200 Wilcrest Drive, Houston, TX 77042 Roster: Mardy Fish Jan-Michael Gambill Anna-Lena Groenefeld Graydon Oliver Ahsha Rolle Bryanne Stewart

Team Name: Kansas City Explorers Address: P.O. Box 1521, Mission, KS 66222 Roster: Mike Bryan Bob Bryan Scott Doerner Lilia Osterloh David Macpherson Brian MacPhie Corina Morariu Caroline Wozniacki

Team Name: Newport Beach Breakers Address: c/o Airport Plaza Center, 4540 Campus Dr., Suite 100, Newport Beach, CA 92660 Roster: Ramon Delgado Tina Krizan Rick Leach Anastassia Rodionova Pete Sampras Jeff Tarango

Team Name: Sacramento Capitals Address: 2483 Sunrise Blvd., Suite C, Gold River, CA 95670 Roster: Brandon Coupe Mark Knowles Anna Kournikova Elena Likhovtseva Bethanie Mattek Travis Parrott Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Nicole Vaidisova Sam Warburg

Team Name: St. Louis Aces Address: 6300 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO 63117 Roster: John Paul Fruttero Maria Emilia Salerni Aleke Tsoubanos Brian Wilson

Team Name: Springfield Lasers Address: Springfield Greene County Park Board, 1923 N. Weller, Springfield, MO 65803 Roster: Victoria Azarenka Nick Monroe Anastasia Myskina Kaysie Smashey Andreea Vanc Alex Vlaski

How Indirect Sport Lighting Fixtures Illuminated An Indoor Tennis Court And Two Racquetball Courts

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A client in McQueeny, TX went online and found on the Internet. He contacted us for a very sophisticated sport lighting system for an indoor facility he owned. This was one of the most challenging, and ultimately rewarding, projects that we have worked on to date.

It involved the development of very complex photometric designs and very special equipment made only in the USA.

The facility itself housed an indoor single tennis court and double racquetball court. For the tennis court, the client wanted tournament level lighting, which calls for a minimum 100 foot candles. For the racquetball court, he wanted general sport court lighting.

There were some special considerations to take into account on this project. To begin with, the roof was built at a pitched angle. In order to install suspended indirect sport lights, the lighting design and equipment company had to provide a special junction box that allowed them to hang perfectly true and straight from the ceiling.

They also had to install extension stems at different lengths to ensure that all fixtures were suspended at the same height.

The racquetball court lighting system was different. It required that all fixtures be mounted flush with the ceiling. It also called for a sturdy impact resistant glass that would withstand direct strikes for high speed balls.

The racquetball court lighting system also had to be fitted with emergency quartz back-up lights in the event of a power failure. This would also the system to instantly come on prior to the metal halide lights re-strike time and allow players to find their way to the door.

Such complex sport lighting systems obviously require advanced photometric design planning. It was necessary for the lighting designers to develop a full three-dimensional model of the building interior. Because they involved indirect lighting, calculations had to be made to determine the reflectance of walls, ceiling, and the floor.

We then rendered a complete installation diagram for both sport lighting systems. This diagram was intended for the contracted that the client had chosen to handle putting in the actual equipment. Support was provided to this contractor by the design staff of the lighting design and supply company.

By rendering the system as a model first, the designers were able to actually exceed the expectations of the client. By calculating reflectance as well as luminance, they ended up with a system that exceeded, on the average, 150 foot candles on the tennis court. The racquetball court was lit at 80 foot candles with near perfect uniformity.

Once the model was constructed in our software, designers knew exactly what type of sport lighting fixtures to supply the client with. For the tennis court, designers provided the client with indirect court lighting fixtures. These fixtures operate off remote ballasts, are designed to tru-hang from sloped ceilings, and house 1000W metal halide lamps.

They also supplied him with SPT series racquetball court lights. These fixtures house 320W Pulse-Start Metal Halide lamps and feature high impact resistant glass. They also have an emergency backup quartz lighting system to compensate in the event of a power outage.