Mole-Ortega at HP, Bernard-Santos in Mt.Clair, Pathan-Tailor (7) at C.G.!”:
GTA Friday Night Tennis took place at three locations: Holster Park in Clifton (featuring The Grove Cup Round of 32 Match between “Holy Moly” Mike Mole and “Eddie O” Edwin Ortega, as reported by Mike), The Mountainside Park Courts in Upper Montclair (featuring The Grove Cup Round of 32 Match between “Big Returns” Ralph Bernard and “Stealth” Omar Santos, as reported by Ralph) and The Cedar Grove Courts (“Papa K” Kris Srinivasan was the host, but it also featured The Grove Cup Round of 32 Match featuring “Instant” Moka Pathan versus “Tailor Made” Raj Tailor, as reported by Moka).
Let’s first go to HP for the score sent in by Mike.
The HP Result:
Grove Cup Round of 32 Match:
Mike Mole over Edwin Ortega, 6-3, 6-4, to successfully defend both his # 23 Rank in the Advanced Division and his # 12 Rank in the Intermediate Division while also advancing to The Round of 16 of The Grove Cup Tournament! No Aces.
The Holy Moly Memo: Good match, but it was hot as hell! Edwin played well, just made a few too many Unforced Errors. In the 2nd Set, I was up 5-2, but he broke back to make it 5-4 before I served it out. We played at Holster Park from 4:10 to 5:40.
The Holy Moly Memo: Good match, but it was hot as hell! Edwin played well, just made a few too many Unforced Errors. In the 2nd Set, I was up 5-2, but he broke back to make it 5-4 before I served it out. We played at Holster Park from 4:10 to 5:40.
Samara’s Notes: I thank Mike for his timely reporting of that result. Now we head to Montclair for the score sent in by Ralph.
The Mountainside Park Results:
Grove Cup Round of 32 Match:
Ralph Bernard over Omar Santos, 6-1, 6-3, to successfully defend his # 19 Rank in the Advanced Division while also advancing to The Round of 16 of The Grove Cup Tournament! Ralph: 3 Aces (2 in the 1st Set and 1 in the 2nd Set)!
Ralph Bernard over Omar Santos, 6-2! No Aces.
Samara’s Notes: Like Mike, I thank Ralph for his very timely reporting of the results. We now head up to Cedar Grove where we will first get the result from Moka before we let Kris finish off the balance of the report.
The Cedar Grove Results:
Grove Cup Round of 32 Match:
Moka Pathan over Raj Tailor, 6-2, 7-5, to advance to The Round of 16 of The Grove Cup Tournament! This was not a rank defense for Pathan as Tailor is solely in the Intermediate Division. Raj: 3 Aces in the 2nd Set; and Moka: 1 Ace in the 2nd Set!
A Drop of Moka: It was a pretty competitive match, especially in the 2nd Set. We both had to adjust to the heat and to each other's game.
Samara’s Notes: Like the others above, I thank Moka for very timely reporting in this regard. We will now let Papa K take it away!
Kris Srinivasan/Senthil Kumar over Edwin Ortega/Raj Boddu, 6-1! No Aces.
It was a good warm match and one that started late after 8pm.
Edwin Ortega/Raj Boddu over Kris Srinivasan/Doinks Srinivasan, 6-1! No Aces.
Both Boddu and Edwin started playing well and Doinks, with her knee pain, was immobilized to some extent.
Kris Srinivasan/Senthil Kumar over Edwin Ortega/Raj Boddu, 6-3! No Aces.
It was a good match and it was more competitive than the first one.
Sairaj was just involved in a hitting session with Doinks.
Samara’s Notes: As always, I thank Kris for all he does for our league up at Cedar Grove. And much like Thursday night, it truly was a monumental night of GTA Tennis in multiple locations. The Grove Cup Tournament is off and running to its fastest start in GTA history! Thanks to all involved in the participation of this event and especially those that take the time to report the results.
Sincerely,
Frank Samara
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