Women’s Pro Doubles Tour Picks Up Today In St. Louis 
by Rob Dinerman

Dateline February 28 --- The WDSA women’s pro doubles tour resumes this weekend with the fourth event on the 2013-14 schedule, the inaugural $10,000 St. Louis Open, hosted by the Missouri Athletic Club. This tournament, the first on the WDSA circuit since the early-December U. S. Open, will jump-start a busy spring/summer period in which there will be forthcoming stops in Denver, Sea Island, Florida, Chicago, New York and South Hampton. Six teams will compete in St. Louis, with the sister duo of Narelle Krizek and Natarsha McElhinny the top seed and No. 2 seeds Heidi Mather and Victoria Simmonds also byed to Saturday evening’s semifinal round. There will be two quarterfinal matches Friday night, with the Philadelphia pairing of Amy Milanek and Dawn Gray leading off against Fernanda Rocha and Karen Jerome, following which Meredeth Quick --- making her return to the competitive fray after missing the fall tournaments with a shoulder injury --- and Steph Hewitt will contest the bottom-half quarterfinal against Joyce Davenport and Larissa Stephenson. The final is scheduled for Sunday morning at 11 AM.









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