Sunday, July 16 – Sunday, July 23, 2006

This tournament will be published on both USTA.com and ustaclay.com. You can find the tournament quickly on either website.

Boys' 16 Singles: Born on or after August 1, 1989.
Boys' 18 Singles: Born on or after August 1, 1987.

Singles – Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 12:00 noon Eastern time
Doubles – Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 6:30 pm Eastern time

These deadlines are strictly enforced and no exceptions will be made.

The online registration process does not provide the National Championships with a signed copy of the USTA Release required of all participants. Therefore, we are asking that you complete the USTA Waiver and Medical Release that was either printed as part of the online registration process, provided by your Section, or obtained by going to the download area of this site.

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Please complete this form and return it as soon as possible, so that it's received no later than July 1, 2006. It may either be sent to the following address or faxed to the following number:

Jeff Szekely
USTA Boys' National Clay Court Championships
Woodmont Office Center
1401 Rockville Pike, Suite 560
Rockville, MD 20852
Fax No: (301) 309-2271

On page 165 of the 2006 Friend at Court, the USTA Regulation III.A.4.l. states the following about "Seeding."

The Director of USA Tennis Junior Competition or the Director's designee shall seed the tournament after consulting with the Tournament Committee.

For the past two years the College Coaches Expo has been a huge success for the eligible players, parents, and college coaches. It provided a non-intimidating and casual venue for players, parents, and college coaches to meet and exchange information. Click on the link below for Information for the College Bound Student Athlete.

Download Forms and Information Packets

The Tennis Channel will be providing a taped-delay program of the semifinals and finals of the USTA National Boys' 18 & 16 Clay Court Championships. The Tennis Channel reaches 14 of the top 15 US markets and more than 350 nationwide. The Tennis Channel has between 8-10 million subscribers and the network is already in 43 states and 2900 communities. The channel is available to all Comcast, Insight Communications, Adelphia Communications, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Brighthouse Networks, Shenandoah Cable Television, and Starpower subscribers. The name of the program will be "Inside Tennis with the Koz." Check your local listings for the times and dates. The program will be shown 12-15 times during August and September.

RadioTennis.com will live web cast the USTA National Boys' 18 & 16 Clay Court Championships from July 20th-23rd. Starting with the round of 16, there will be approximately 40 hours of live coverage.

RadioTennis.com is live-streaming audio, play-by-play of professional and top level tennis from around the world via the Internet. It is a FREE service. All you need to do is log on to the Internet, type in RadioTennis.com. Once it comes up, simply input your e-mail address and select a password, and you're ready to listen to the action.

Bob Greene, one of the premier journalists in the sport of tennis, is joining our staff this year. In his four decades of service with the Associated Press, Greene has covered everything from Grand Slam events to junior tournaments. During that time he has written about many of the great players well before they were household names -- players like Arthur Ashe and Jimmy Connors.

This will be the first year that the tournament will officially have a charitable foundation. The CATF was accepted by the Board of Directors as a charitable project by the National Heritage Foundation on 3/21/2006 and therefore shares their nonprofit 501 (c)(3), 509 (a)(1) federal tax status (Tax ID Number 58-2085326). All donations to CATF are tax deductible and can be made payable to Capital Area Tennis Foundation.

In the past the tournament has made charitable contributions to the Montgomery County Wheelchair Association and has supported inner city youths. The CATF was founded to achieve the following goals:

• To provide the area with high caliber tennis championships;
• To organize the USTA National Boys’ 18 & 16 Clay Court Championships;
• To create an environment for student athletes to become informed about the college scholarship opportunities available to them;
• To provide NCAA college tennis coaches the means to efficiently and effectively recruit potential student athletes;
• To involve community members in volunteer positions;
• To partner with the corporate community in the operation of The Clay Courts; and
• To make a contribution out of the profits from The Clay Courts to a charitable organization that promotes opportunities for local, area children.

If you want to make a donation, please make the check payable to Capital Area Tennis Foundation and send it to the following address:

Jeff Szekely
USTA Boys' National Clay Court Championships
Woodmont Office Center
1401 Rockville Pike, Suite 560
Rockville, MD 20852

TennisRecruiting.net is a great way for you to market yourself to college coaches in the United States. Even if you are only a freshman or sophomore, you should start paying attention to tennis recruiting -- since college coaches tell us that they often look at talent several years in advance. TennisRecruiting.net has a set of web pages for more than 100,000 junior players worldwide -- for every junior who has played in a top-tier USTA or ITF tournament. These web pages include basic player information, tournament results, and rankings by graduation class. And these web pages are used today by U.S. college coaches at all levels to identify recruiting targets!