3/8/17:
"Kris/Doinks host 10 at C.G., Kevin hosts 4 at The Bubble!":
GTA Wednesday Night Tennis took place at both The Cedar Grove Courts (co-hosted by "The K Man" Kris Srinivasan and "The Marathon Woman" Doinks Srinivasan) and then at The Wayne Bubble (a Night Owl session) with "Kevlar" Kevin Doyle acting as the host. I thank all three for their participation in this report.
We will first go to the report from Kris with a contribution from his wife Doinks along the way. And then we will close out this overall report with the recap from Kevin.
We now let The K take it away!
After a hectic day, the beautiful weather and invitations from couple of players drew me to the tennis courts just after 6pm, starting early with the intent to finish early as well.
After initiating the call to play and stringing together a bunch of e-mails and messages, Dean Delgado was a "no show" stuck at work.
The women were more organized as they coordinated well to play their planned match. A few didn't get to play as Alex Roumi didn't wait for a few more minutes. Raj Tailor and Natalia Sout ended up having a hitting session along with Doinks and Omar Santos.
The Cedar Grove Results:
Doinks paired with Kathy Sheldon to take on Brenda Jordan and Dawn Peterson. Here's the result from Doinks.
2 out of 3 Set Women's Doubles Match:
Doinks Srinivasan/Kathy Sheldon over Brenda Jordan/Dawn Peterson, 4-6, 6-2, 10-2 (Super Tiebreak), as both teams entered the Women's Doubles Division as the New # 8 and # 9 Ranked Teams respectively! No Aces (apparently).
The K Man has his say: Brenda was solid at the net with good plays and placements while Dawn was manning the baseline. Their steady play earned them the 1st Set, but it also had tired Brenda's hands as her team went down in the next set and the STB.
Dan Martinelli/Jorge Solano over Sairaj Srinivasan/Omar Santos, 7-5! No Aces.
It was a great comeback match for the veterans as they rallied superbly from being down 2-5! Sairaj and Omar were dominant for the most part till they were up 5 games. Spin (aka Dan Martinelli) was the first to hold for his team, but not without some scares. Serving 40-15, it was soon Deuce…but a couple of silly errors survived the 3-Love deficit for his team. Sairaj was serving and hitting well. Omar was placing the ball beautifully between the players. Dino Celis had then joined us along the sidelines to watch and he had the luxury of seeing how rock-solid Spin's rust was. He took pictures of Spin's misses and had "encouraging" not-so-complimentary words for The Doc. That's what Spin needed to get him triggered into a maniacal mode as he got his serves going and then smoked some handsome down-the-line shots, effectively shutting out Dino and shutting down his opponents by winning 5 straight games! Jorge gave him solid support, especially at the net winning almost all the points. This made a big impact to the overall game of Sairaj and Omar as they then made more unforced errors. It was a solid One-Setter that was turned on its head on the brink of an early finish.
Dino Celis/Jorge Solano over Kris Srinivasan/Omar Santos, 7-5! No Aces.
It was another good One-Setter with Dino and Jorge emerging as the deserving winners. No question, it was Dino who was the star with his far superior game. The pace of some of his shots was ridiculous, but indeed a pleasure to watch. Most shots were played to Jorge who was quite steady, but also slowed the pace of the game in stark contrast to Dino's pace. For us, Omar was the savior playing very well, especially from the baseline. But his net-play was tepid and didn't have the punch to close out the points. My game was a mixed bag as the long layoff sure seemed to see chunks of rust in my game. But I have to say that the set of incorrigible and ridiculous shots in my arsenal seemed intact and rust-free...:-). The fighting spirit was there for sure for what should have been perilously close to 5-1 against us was turned around to 5-All to make a match of it. We missed winning the next game despite some opportunities. Having a chance to force the Tiebreak, we did well to earn Break Points only to blow them away. Just like that, we faced Match Point and thwarted it yet again. We would get two more Break Point opportunities, but proved to be stubborn mules not to grab them. Finally, we succumbed to the fourth Match Point overall to the lamest shot, but it was one prolonged set indeed!
Then, I finally felt good hitting the ball with Dino despite punishing shots by the guy wielding Federer's racquet. It was a somewhat light turnout, but still it was brisk tennis on a lovely night. Cheers!
Samara's Notes: Thanks again to Kris and Doinks for hosting the Cedar Grove session and also much gratitude to The K Man for his colorful and comprehensive commentary.
We now head up to Wayne to let Kevlar Kevin detail what was up at The Bub!
The Wayne Bubble Results:
Kevin Doyle/Robin Wilson over Jeanette Pegg/Ania Rachwal, 6-2! No Aces.
Kevin Doyle/Ania Rachwal over Robin Wilson/Jeanette Pegg, 6-0! No Aces.
Those two One-Setter were on Court 3 and took almost 2 hours to finish. When the second One-Setter ended, Robin and I just hit as Ania and Jeanette decided to leave.
We had an odd number of players, so in addition to our match three players (Laurie Boughton, Ted Cedroski and Vladimir Smolyanskiy) played Australian (Canadian Doubles, perhaps?) on Court 1 for the entire 2 hours.
Samara's Notes: I thank Kevin for hosting that session and providing his write-up as well.
Sincerely,
Frank Samara
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