BRIEFLY: RYANS REACH FINAL ROUND

Richard and Donna Ryan of Jackson advanced to the final round of the Couples Resort Mixed 55 Doubles competition during the recent United States Professional Tennis Registry's International Tennis Symposium held in Hilton Head Island, S.C.

The week-lone USPTR International Symposium attracted more than 1,000 tennis teachers, coaches and tennis enthusiasts from more than 50 countries. The USPTR is the world's largest international tennis teaching organization with more than 10,200 members in 122 countries.

Donna Ryan, Southeast Missouri State University's women's tennis coach and also the head teaching professional at St. Francis Universal Health and Fitness, has won the women's division at the symposium five times.

-- From staff reports