City tennis tourney reviving this week

The Chattanooga City Championships tennis tournament returns to Manker Patten this week after a long absence, and entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EDT Monday at www.usta.com (tennis link) ID number 700133417. The Thursday-Sunday tournament is restricted to players who live within about a 30-mile radius of Chattanooga. It will award $500 in prize money to each of the open singles champions and $250 to each of the singles open runners-up. There also will be men’s and women’s doubles divisions with 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 combined rankings (ages 18-over), plus open, and mixed doubles for 7.5 and lower (18-over) and open entrants. Entries cost $40 for singles and $25 per player for doubles.

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Former Baylor School standout Chase

Roswall from Bristol and fellow incoming Tennessee Volunteers freshman golfer

Spencer Cross from Sevierville won the 2017 Tennessee Four-Ball Championship on Saturday at The Country Club of Morristown. Roswall already was the 2017 Tennessee Match Play champion. He and Cross beat two sets of former champions 1 up on Saturday: Lee Maxwell and Wes Korth with Cross’s 15-foot birdie putt on No. 18 in the semifinals and Jack Smith and Ryan

Greer with Roswall’s 40-footer from the fringe on No. 18 in the final match. Smith and Greer won the first two holes, but Roswall and Cross got square on No. 5 and took their first lead on the next hole. The 2016 champs got even at No. 8, and the match stayed square until Roswall’s eagle on No. 16. Greer birdied No. 17, setting up the final drama.