Young In New Haven To Promote Pilot Pen

By LORI RILEY | Courant Staff Writer DONALD YOUNG, at 18 the youngest player in the top 100, helps Daveion Gormany, 5, with her stroke during a tennis clinic in New Haven. (MICHAEL MCANDREWS / HARTFORD COURANT / July 9, 2008) NEW HAVEN - — At age 18, Donald Young is the youngest player ranked in the top 100. But Wednesday morning, he lost a few times to players much younger than himself. "A couple of the losses, I took pretty hard," he said. "Two or three of them were to girls." Young, of course, was joking. About taking the losses hard, that is. His ranking — 93rd — was unaffected. That's because he was playing Wii virtual tennis against kids from the New Haven Park and Recreation summer camps at Union Station, part of media day for the Pilot Pen tennis tournament, which will take place Aug. 15-23. Sydney Hall, 10, of New... [read full story]