Longboat Key's tennis champions

 Sarasota County, in the form of the Public Tennis Center's Mixed 40 & Over 8.0 team, remains tied for first place in the race for the 2019 USTA Florida League Championship Cup. 

The Longboat team recently defeated Hillsborough County for a sectional title in Orlando and gained enough points to stay even with Duval County. 

The team of Captain Janet Sperling, Coquina Homer, Jeffrey Stern, Nick Hardy, Calvin Hac, Eric Abbott, Jim Capazola, Babette Paige, Dean Dancer, Ann Lammers, Jill Lyons, Rosa Rojas Weis, Jane Hancock, Margaret Wieczerzak and Sandra Poston qualified as the Florida Sectional champions to compete in the USTA National Championships Nov. 15-17 in Orlando.