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Seena Hamilton, a Pioneer in Youth Tennis, Is Dead at 92

Seena Hamilton, a tennis mom who founded and directed the junior tennis tournament known as the Easter Bowl, a leading testing ground for young players on their way to college and pro careers, died on Saturday in Kingston, N.Y. She was 92.

The cause was cardiac arrhythmia, a complication of Alzheimer’s disease, her son, Bryan Fineberg, said.

A trade journalist and a marketing specialist, Ms. Hamilton found in the 1960s that she was the mother of a tennis prodigy, Fineberg, who was ranked among the top 12-year-olds in the Eastern United States. At the time, however, there were no national tournaments for junior players in the East, so Ms.