For Vickie Hicks, the captain of the Chattanooga women's 4.0 USTA tennis team, repeating the same results this season as she had in 1990 would be just fine.

"As captain of the 3.0 team, I helped carry that team to the 1990 national championship," she said after her current team won their division of the League Adult and Senior Tennessee State Championships on Sunday at the Champions Club. "We plan to do it again with this team."

Hicks' 2009 squad beat Nashville 5-0 in the final, a win that was sealed when Heidi Ozawa Contractor defeated Emily Joyce 7-6, 0-6, 1-0 in the No. 1 singles match -- she was down 4-2 in the tiebreaker before winning seven of the next eight points -- mere seconds before LeeAnn Bailes Foster and Anne Rochester won at No. 2 doubles. Hicks and Sandy Probst secured a win at No. 3 doubles to complete the sweep.

Gina Salisbury and Leah Aileen Cooper earned the first win at No. 1 doubles. Stephanie Caudell had a win at No. 2 singles.

This team, together since 2000, dominated the tournament, losing three games and dropping only 11 sets in five matches. The uncommon group of assembled players features six left-handers, two that are left-handed but play with their right.

"We've just had a team of competitors -- regardless of age," Hicks said, noting that the team age ranges from 32 to 58. "You have to have those who are dedicated and good under pressure. We've been together for a long time -- we know each other's games and can play with anybody. You've got players on this team that will play when asked, will sit when asked; they're great team players and you must have those."

Hicks said the uproar from Contractor's championship-clinching victory didn't bother her.

"You assume good things are happening, but I'm trying to concentrate on the court," she said. "I'm fine when I'm on the court. It's when I'm sitting there watching the matches that I'm a nervous wreck."

Two senior teams -- the 3.0 women and the 3.5 men -- joined the women's 4.0 team as local teams to advance to the sectional tournament. Hicks believes her team has a few things to work on before heading to Birmingham, Ala.

"The first thing we're going to have to do is to get acclimated to the heat," she said. "A lot of us work full-time jobs and the only chance we get to play is at night, so we're probably going to have to start playing some on weekends so we're used to this 90-degree heat."