12/6/16:
"Frank/John host 11 at The Bubble!:"
There was just one session of GTA Tuesday Night Tennis: the Night Owls session up at The Wayne Bubble. Co-hosts and cohorts "Hollywood" Frank Samara and "Mr. Arizona" John Incognito arrived together at 8:35.
It was a slow build to eleven official competitors as the last two members to arrive around 9:25 were "Steppin' to the AM" Anish Mehta and Dennis "The Menace" Cabanatan. And "Drill Instructor" Don Moya was only able to leave his post and play with the group around 10:25.
Let's get to those scores now.
The Wayne Bubble Results:
Lou La Forgia/Senthil Kumar over Chris Chiaro/Joe Rodrigues, 6-3! Chris: 2 Aces (one on each and back-to-back in the same game)! They played this on Court Two from 9:25 to 10pm.
Frank Samara/Syed Rashid over John Incognito/Mike Sindler, 7-5! No Aces. We made the changeovers, but in an effort to save time...I only noted the flow of the game...not who hit what winners and when. So it went as follows: Syed was broken (Triple Game Point was reduced to Deuce, then it was Game Point again, 2nd Deuce, Game Point again, Double Fault into 3rd Deuce, Break Point and then another Double Fault to break himself) and John held serve (Love-15 shifted straight to Double Game Point, but that got cut down to Deuce, but then another Game Point and the hold) for a 2-0 lead. Frank held (Love-15 went right to Double Game Point and the hold) and then Mike was broken (30-Love, 30-15, Double Fault for 30-All, Game Point, Double Fault for Deuce, Break Point and the break) to level things at 2-2. Rashid was broken again (Love-30 shifted to 30-All, but then came Break Point and the break) and Incognito held again (begins up 30-Love only to see it go right down to Break Point, but then it went to Deuce, Game Point and the hold) to bring his team up to 4-2. Samara held again as well (15-Love, 15-All then onto Double Game Point, Game Point and the hold) and Sindler was broken again (started with a Double Fault on a straight trek to Triple Break Point which would get brought down to Break Point, but then came the break) to knot the score once more at 4-4. Sadistic Syed was broken yet again and this time it was at Love, but then Mr. Arizona was broken for the first time (15-Love shifted to 15-30, then it went to 30-All, Break Point, Deuce and all Break Points through to 3rd Deuce, another Break Point and finally the break) to tie it up again, this time at 5-5! Hollywood held again (Triple Game Point, the hold came on Double Game Point), but The Sin Man was broken once more and this time around it was at Love as this one ended on Triple Break/Match Point! We played this one on Court Three from 9:26 to 10:22...just four minutes short of an hour!
The Skinny: This was a close contest throughout, but the pivotal game came when John was broken for the first time as that was the only true difference in this match as Frank always held while Syed and Mike were never able to muster a hold (despite bombing in some nice serves). Incognito said that he felt like his timing was off, yet he made many great gets. Rashid was also quite speedy in his movement around the court. While Sindler was a steady presence at the net, it was Samara who was most effective there even though he only approached it in a shark-like fashion...whenever he smelled blood!
Dennis Cabanatan over Anish Mehta, 6-2! No Aces. This One-Setter was played on Court Four from 9:35 to 10pm. After this one, they saw the other two courts (Two and Three as Court One remained vacant the entire session) were still occupied by Doubles action. So they went into an unofficial Super Tiebreak until the opportunity arose for them to get involved in some Doubles as well.
Lou La Forgia/Senthil Kumar over Chris Chiaro/Joe Rodrigues, 7-5! No Aces. Chris and Joe had a 5-3 lead only to see Lou and Senthil then take four straight games for the comeback victory! This one was also played on Court Two and it lasted from 10:03 to 10:38.
Anish Mehta/Mike Sindler leading Dennis Cabanatan/Syed Rashid, 6-6 (8-7)...Incomplete! No Aces (apparently). They got this one started on Court Three at 10:26 and they wrapped it up when John and Don announced it was 11pm and time to shut it down. It is a shame they did...especially when you see what took place a little later on another court.
Don Moya over John Incognito, 6-2! Don: 4 Aces! After a hitting session that had also included Samara on Incognito's side before Frank got called to duty over on Court Two, this one was played on Court Four from roughly 10:40 to 11pm (give or take a little either way).
Chris Chiaro/Frank Samara tied with Lou La Forgia/Senthil Kumar, 5-5 (Incomplete)! Chris: 1 Ace on Mike. Since we did not get this one underway until 10:45, we decided to forego the changeover in an attempt to save time and possibly get one done in time (even though we knew that was likely to be Mission Impossible). I memorized the flow of the games and wrote them down once we were done. Here we go: Lou held serve (Love-15 went straight to Double Game Point and the hold), Chris held (Love-15 once again went straight to Double Game Point, but the hold came as the result of a big Ace up the T against Senthil), but Senthil was the first to be broken and it was a battle (15-Love shifted to 15-30, then it went to 30-All, Break Point, Deuce and then all Break Points to 3rd Deuce, one more Break Point and finally the break) that put his team down 1-2. Frank was also broken (Triple Break Point, the break came on Double Break Point) and then La Forgia held again (it looked like a ditto service performance as he once again took it from Love-15 to Double Game Point, but this time around the hold came on Game Point) to go up 3-2. Chiaro also held again (15-Love, 15-All and then onto Double Game Point, the hold came on Game Point), but then Kumar held at Love to restore the lead for his team at 4-3! Samara managed to hold as well as it went from 15-Love to 15-30 to Game Point and the hold, but then The Lethal Lefty logged his third straight hold (15-Love, 15-All and onto Double Game Point and the hold) for a 5-4 lead. At this moment, John called out to us to wrap it up as it was now 11pm. We said we just wanted to play one more game as that way it would either be a 6-4 win for La Forgia/Kumar or it would end in a 5-5 tie. Who knew that this next game would be a marathon?!?! King Crush was on service and he started off just like Lou did as it went from 15-Love to 15-All and then straight to Double Game Point. But here is where it took a different path as it was then cut down to Deuce and then it was all Game Points all the way to 4th Deuce, then one more Game Point and finally the hold at 11:11!
The Skinny: Chiaro could not hand the opposition their first loss of the night (Rodrigues, by the way, had felt tired and asked Samara to replace him in this one), but at least he did not lose to them a third time. La Forgia and Kumar were quite a force to be reckoned with on this particular night and Samara found that he had to quickly get into battle mode just to keep up with the other three guys on the court. Thankfully, he did enough to hold up his end of the bargain.
The shame of it is the fact that had we known how long we were about to go on Court Two, the Tiebreak One-Setter on Court Three could have come to its proper conclusion. It may have ended up becoming a likely Nominee for One-Set Doubles Match of The Year at season's end. Dennis said that Anish was about to go on serve, so it likely would have ended as a 9-7 Tiebreak. But it is unfair to make that assumption, no matter how big the server is. Too bad this one was aborted as abruptly as it was...potentially just one point away from its full finish. Or it may have gone onto be an amazing 17-15 TB score. Now we will never know. Oh well!
Nonetheless, it was another fun and solid session up at The Bubble.
All the best,
Frank Samara
"Frank/John host 11 at The Bubble!:"
There was just one session of GTA Tuesday Night Tennis: the Night Owls session up at The Wayne Bubble. Co-hosts and cohorts "Hollywood" Frank Samara and "Mr. Arizona" John Incognito arrived together at 8:35.
It was a slow build to eleven official competitors as the last two members to arrive around 9:25 were "Steppin' to the AM" Anish Mehta and Dennis "The Menace" Cabanatan. And "Drill Instructor" Don Moya was only able to leave his post and play with the group around 10:25.
Let's get to those scores now.
The Wayne Bubble Results:
Lou La Forgia/Senthil Kumar over Chris Chiaro/Joe Rodrigues, 6-3! Chris: 2 Aces (one on each and back-to-back in the same game)! They played this on Court Two from 9:25 to 10pm.
Frank Samara/Syed Rashid over John Incognito/Mike Sindler, 7-5! No Aces. We made the changeovers, but in an effort to save time...I only noted the flow of the game...not who hit what winners and when. So it went as follows: Syed was broken (Triple Game Point was reduced to Deuce, then it was Game Point again, 2nd Deuce, Game Point again, Double Fault into 3rd Deuce, Break Point and then another Double Fault to break himself) and John held serve (Love-15 shifted straight to Double Game Point, but that got cut down to Deuce, but then another Game Point and the hold) for a 2-0 lead. Frank held (Love-15 went right to Double Game Point and the hold) and then Mike was broken (30-Love, 30-15, Double Fault for 30-All, Game Point, Double Fault for Deuce, Break Point and the break) to level things at 2-2. Rashid was broken again (Love-30 shifted to 30-All, but then came Break Point and the break) and Incognito held again (begins up 30-Love only to see it go right down to Break Point, but then it went to Deuce, Game Point and the hold) to bring his team up to 4-2. Samara held again as well (15-Love, 15-All then onto Double Game Point, Game Point and the hold) and Sindler was broken again (started with a Double Fault on a straight trek to Triple Break Point which would get brought down to Break Point, but then came the break) to knot the score once more at 4-4. Sadistic Syed was broken yet again and this time it was at Love, but then Mr. Arizona was broken for the first time (15-Love shifted to 15-30, then it went to 30-All, Break Point, Deuce and all Break Points through to 3rd Deuce, another Break Point and finally the break) to tie it up again, this time at 5-5! Hollywood held again (Triple Game Point, the hold came on Double Game Point), but The Sin Man was broken once more and this time around it was at Love as this one ended on Triple Break/Match Point! We played this one on Court Three from 9:26 to 10:22...just four minutes short of an hour!
The Skinny: This was a close contest throughout, but the pivotal game came when John was broken for the first time as that was the only true difference in this match as Frank always held while Syed and Mike were never able to muster a hold (despite bombing in some nice serves). Incognito said that he felt like his timing was off, yet he made many great gets. Rashid was also quite speedy in his movement around the court. While Sindler was a steady presence at the net, it was Samara who was most effective there even though he only approached it in a shark-like fashion...whenever he smelled blood!
Dennis Cabanatan over Anish Mehta, 6-2! No Aces. This One-Setter was played on Court Four from 9:35 to 10pm. After this one, they saw the other two courts (Two and Three as Court One remained vacant the entire session) were still occupied by Doubles action. So they went into an unofficial Super Tiebreak until the opportunity arose for them to get involved in some Doubles as well.
Lou La Forgia/Senthil Kumar over Chris Chiaro/Joe Rodrigues, 7-5! No Aces. Chris and Joe had a 5-3 lead only to see Lou and Senthil then take four straight games for the comeback victory! This one was also played on Court Two and it lasted from 10:03 to 10:38.
Anish Mehta/Mike Sindler leading Dennis Cabanatan/Syed Rashid, 6-6 (8-7)...Incomplete! No Aces (apparently). They got this one started on Court Three at 10:26 and they wrapped it up when John and Don announced it was 11pm and time to shut it down. It is a shame they did...especially when you see what took place a little later on another court.
Don Moya over John Incognito, 6-2! Don: 4 Aces! After a hitting session that had also included Samara on Incognito's side before Frank got called to duty over on Court Two, this one was played on Court Four from roughly 10:40 to 11pm (give or take a little either way).
Chris Chiaro/Frank Samara tied with Lou La Forgia/Senthil Kumar, 5-5 (Incomplete)! Chris: 1 Ace on Mike. Since we did not get this one underway until 10:45, we decided to forego the changeover in an attempt to save time and possibly get one done in time (even though we knew that was likely to be Mission Impossible). I memorized the flow of the games and wrote them down once we were done. Here we go: Lou held serve (Love-15 went straight to Double Game Point and the hold), Chris held (Love-15 once again went straight to Double Game Point, but the hold came as the result of a big Ace up the T against Senthil), but Senthil was the first to be broken and it was a battle (15-Love shifted to 15-30, then it went to 30-All, Break Point, Deuce and then all Break Points to 3rd Deuce, one more Break Point and finally the break) that put his team down 1-2. Frank was also broken (Triple Break Point, the break came on Double Break Point) and then La Forgia held again (it looked like a ditto service performance as he once again took it from Love-15 to Double Game Point, but this time around the hold came on Game Point) to go up 3-2. Chiaro also held again (15-Love, 15-All and then onto Double Game Point, the hold came on Game Point), but then Kumar held at Love to restore the lead for his team at 4-3! Samara managed to hold as well as it went from 15-Love to 15-30 to Game Point and the hold, but then The Lethal Lefty logged his third straight hold (15-Love, 15-All and onto Double Game Point and the hold) for a 5-4 lead. At this moment, John called out to us to wrap it up as it was now 11pm. We said we just wanted to play one more game as that way it would either be a 6-4 win for La Forgia/Kumar or it would end in a 5-5 tie. Who knew that this next game would be a marathon?!?! King Crush was on service and he started off just like Lou did as it went from 15-Love to 15-All and then straight to Double Game Point. But here is where it took a different path as it was then cut down to Deuce and then it was all Game Points all the way to 4th Deuce, then one more Game Point and finally the hold at 11:11!
The Skinny: Chiaro could not hand the opposition their first loss of the night (Rodrigues, by the way, had felt tired and asked Samara to replace him in this one), but at least he did not lose to them a third time. La Forgia and Kumar were quite a force to be reckoned with on this particular night and Samara found that he had to quickly get into battle mode just to keep up with the other three guys on the court. Thankfully, he did enough to hold up his end of the bargain.
The shame of it is the fact that had we known how long we were about to go on Court Two, the Tiebreak One-Setter on Court Three could have come to its proper conclusion. It may have ended up becoming a likely Nominee for One-Set Doubles Match of The Year at season's end. Dennis said that Anish was about to go on serve, so it likely would have ended as a 9-7 Tiebreak. But it is unfair to make that assumption, no matter how big the server is. Too bad this one was aborted as abruptly as it was...potentially just one point away from its full finish. Or it may have gone onto be an amazing 17-15 TB score. Now we will never know. Oh well!
Nonetheless, it was another fun and solid session up at The Bubble.
All the best,
Frank Samara
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