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$30K WDSA Turner Cup Begins Today In NY, To Benefit Cancer Center
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May 11, 2012 - The top-seeded teams of Steph Hewitt/Meredeth Quick and Narelle Krizek/Suzie Pierrepont headline the 2012 WDSA Turner Cup which gets underway today at the New York Athletic Club.

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The WDSA's Narelle Krizek posts the following:

Dear Doubles Enthusiasts,

   On behalf of the WDSA and the Turner Cup committee I want to welcome you all the 3rd Annual $30,000 Turner Cup benefiting the Smilow Cancer Center at the Yale Cancer Hospital. We hope you enjoy the multiple draws offered featuring the world’s best doubles players: the $30,000 pro draw featuring WDSA #1 Steph Hewitt/Meredeth Quick and #2 Suzie Pierrepont/Narelle Krizek , 3 pro am draws and the Under 30 women’s amateur draw.
 
              We are excited this year to partner with the Smilow Cancer Center at the Yale Cancer Hospital. Benefits from this years Turner Cup will directly support their Breast Cancer unit. We are also honored to recognize CNN Hero Andrea Ivory for her dedication to supporting underprivileged women, giving them the opportunity to have free mammograms through her foundation The Women’s Breast Health Initiative. We hope you will take the opportunity to research both of these important foundations.

               This season marks the WDSA’s 5th year, where we kicked things off with a new event in Philadelphia this past October, benefiting the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The women then traveled to Denver and Chicago where both events benefitted local Urban squash programs, Mile High Squash and METROsquash. After the Turner Cup, the WDSA tour heads to Los Angeles for the 2nd Annual Crescent Capital Open benefiting Santa Barbara School of Squash. This is the last chance for players to qualify for the inaugural Wilson Cup at the Elmaleh-Stanton Squash Center in Southampton, NY. This event will see the top 16 women in action and will crown the ultimate number one ranked team for the 2011-2012 season.   We are thrilled to have each event linked with a charity because while our mission is to grow women’s doubles on both professional and amateur levels, we also feel it’s important to join forces with the communities in which we play and leave no woman behind.

             We hope you all enjoy this very special weekend, especially Sunday for Mother’s Day. While this day will be busy with brunches, squash and time spent with those we love, please share a special prayer for the mothers that are not with us today. I will share this day with my sister Tarsh, knowing that my efforts both on and off the court will help cure a disease that has affected so many of us and in particular our mother Lynne, who lost her battle to breast cancer at the young age of 47. She would have been proud to be a part of this event and would have loved watching all of the squash!

          Thank you to all of our sponsors and patrons, as well as US Squash. Without our partners, this tournament would not be possible.
 
Narelle Krizek and the Turner Cup Committee

Patrick Turner   
Scott Wilson      
Bryan Fitzpatrick              
Patricia Han    
Sarah Odell  
Chris Oberbeck