9/18/17:
"Mehta-Shah part of 8 at C.G.!":
There was just one session of GTA Monday Night Tennis at The Cedar Grove Courts, but it featured the last of the four Grove Cup XX Quarterfinals as "The AM Rush" Anish Mehta and "The Sultan of Swing" Raj Shah got together to play their match. And then GTA Champion: "Nate the Great" Nathan Fernandes sent in the balance of the results.
Let's get to the scores!
The Cedar Grove Results:
Grove Cup XX Quarterfinal Match:
Raj Shah over Anish Mehta, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), to become the New # 5 Ranked Player in the Advanced Division while also advancing to the Semifinals of the 20th Annual Grove Cup Tournament! Anish: 1 Ace in the 1st Set.
The Sultan Swings: We scheduled our match for Monday night (rather than Tuesday night as originally planned due to Hurricane Jose) and got together around 6:20pm at Cedar Grove. We started around 6:45 and I believe ended around 8:45.
I thank Anish for making an adjustment by meeting a night earlier since he is going out of town later this week. It was a very tough match as we both are nursing injuries (his back and my knee), but once the adrenaline kicked in…both of us gave it our competitive best.
He's a very quick player and gets to everything and on any given night the win could have gone either way. I will let Anish add any additional commentary on the match.
The AM News: We ended up playing on this night due to the storm - I wouldn't have been able to do Thursday and I was going to be gone for the next two weeks. So it was either do it now or default.
I was up 6-2 (the 1st Set) and then 3-0 in the 2nd Set, but I expended a lot of energy to get to that point (especially the third game). I couldn't keep up that level and I ended up losing the next 8 games in a row as Raj kept up his consistency. After being down 0-2, I managed to crawl back to serve for the match at 5-4 in the 3rd Set. However, we were both hurt by then and I didn't have much left on my serve (I also got tight again). Raj continued to play a smart match and won it in the Tiebreak. His knee injury never stopped him from running difficult balls down, so hopefully it won't be a factor in the next match.
Samara's Notes: I thank both of them for adjusting their schedules to get this match played in a timely fashion. I appreciate the detailed commentary they both offered here. And I congratulate Raj on a very hard-fought victory. In fact, it may end up being a Nominee for Singles Match of The Year at season's end.
We now go to Nate for the rest of the scores.
Chris Chiaro/Ray Spadaro over Nathan Fernandes/Frank Hohorst, 6-4! No Aces.
Chris Chiaro/Ray Spadaro over Nathan Fernandes/Frank Hohorst, 6-4! No Aces.
Nathan Fernandes/Levy Lorenzo over Dennis Cabanatan/Frank Hohorst, 6-3! No Aces.
Samara's Notes: I also thank Nate for reporting in such a timely fashion. Those first two scores are not a duplicated typo. It was a ditto-like repeat performance (the second one of the first one).
Sincerely,
Frank Samara
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