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Inner City Handball Association
What: Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament
When: July 12-13, 2008
Where: Early round matches at 4 sites:
West 5th St. Courts Coney Island for Brooklyn residents
West 96th St. Courts Central Park for Manhattan and Staten Island residents
Van Cortlandt Park for Bronx and out of state residents
Beach 105th Far Rockaway for Queens and Long Island residents
Where: Sunday, July 13 - CHAMPIONSHIPS
North Meadow - Central Park

The Mayor’s Cup Handball tournament featured 150 of the best male and female handball players from around the country in both professional and amateur divisions. Defending champion Satish Jagnandan of the Bronx once again captured the men’s pro singles title, while Tracy Davis of Brooklyn defended her title on the women’s side.

Jagnandan, a former national champion, defended his title by winning a tiebreaker over Brooklyn’s Tyree Bastidas in the championship match. Davis prevailed over Theresa McCourt in an all-Brooklyn final in the women’s pro singles championship.

The Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament is the largest small-ball, one-wall handball tournament in the world and has been held in New York City since 1994. The tournament is organized by the Inner City Handball Association (ICHA) in cooperation with the United States Handball Association. The ICHA awarded $8,000 in total prize money to both Pro and Pro-Am Champions, with a portion of the proceeds going towards the Jim Jacobs Fund for Leukemia/Lymphoma Cancer Research in an effort to aid cancer research and promote cancer awareness.

First round matches were contested at the West 5th Street Courts in Coney Island for Brooklyn residents, the West 96th Street Courts for Manhattan and Staten Island residents, Van Cortlandt Park for Bronx and out of state residents and Beach 105th St. Far Rockaway for Queens and Long Island residents.

The ICHA donated a portion of the tournament proceeds to the Jim Jacobs Research Fund for Leukemia/Lymphoma in order to save lives by promoting cancer awareness.

For additional information, please visit www.icha.org.

For information regarding last year's Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament, please visit our 2007 Mayor's Cup Handball Tournament page.


Last Updated On: Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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