The Sportscenter would like to welcome our new Director of Tennis, Mark Allen ! Before joining the Sportscenter family, Mark was the Head Tennis Professional and Membership Director at Charlotte Racquet Club North. Mark and his wife, Leah , have been married for twenty-seven years. They have three children : Greg (24), Meredith (22), and Paige (17).

 

     Mark is originally from Charlotte and was a state ranked junior player growing up. He graduated from and played Division I tennis at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a USPTA certified professional in good standing and currently signed as one of Team YONEX’s Advisory staff professionals. He currently has a NTRP benchmark rating of 5.0 and finished 2010 as the #1 ranked Men’s 4.5 doubles player in the state of North Carolina. He also finished 2010 as a member of the #3 ranked Men’s 5.0 doubles team in the USTA Southern Region and is the current North Carolina Soft Court Closed Men’s 4.5 doubles champion. Mark has been a member of several championship and sectional finalist Men’s 4.5 USTA league teams, most recently in 2006 and 2009. Mark looks forward to serving the Sportscenter members and sharing his many years of tennis experience with them.

  

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