5/9/18:
"TMT Final part of 25 at C.G.!":
There was just one session of GTA Wednesday Night Tennis, but once again it was a big one. The Main Event was the Tinseltown Memorial Tournament (aka TMT) Final featuring the team of "The Lumberjack" Ryan Pienciak and "Nate the Great" Nathan Fernandes going up against the reigning GTA Women's Doubles Champions: Laura "The Aura" Gawley and "The Smackdown" Sally Pillay in a full 2 out of 3 Sets "Battle of The Sexes" Mixed Doubles Match (with both Nate and Laura reporting). Other contributors to this report (in no particular order) are: "Bravo" Brenda Jordan, "Automatic" Anna Mazur, "The Riz" John Rizzo, "The Marathon Woman" Doinks Srinivasan and "The K Man" Kris Srinivasan.
We will start with The Main Event and then do our best to achieve some semblance of order with the results from all the other contributors to this report.
The Cedar Grove Results:
TMT Final "Battle of The Sexes" Mixed Doubles Match:
Ryan Pienciak/Nathan Fernandes over Laura Gawley/Sally Pillay, 6-2, 6-3, to become the first-ever Tinseltown Memorial Tournament Champs! No Aces.
Nate's Notes: It was a closely contested match. They play so well together! Glad we scraped through.
Laura's Lament: It was a lot of fun, but they were too good!
Samara's Notes: First, I thank both for their very timely reporting. Second, I congratulate Ryan and Nate on their victory. The interesting scenario that emanates as a result of this tourney win is that, originally, Pienciak/Fernandes would have become the next Top Contenders to the reigning GTA Doubles Champions…that was, of course, until Ryan went ahead and won the Titles with Nick Caputo as his partner instead! Alternately, this victory will now boost the Pienciak/Fernandes team to the # 3 Rank in the Doubles Division behind Former Champs: Kuzavas/Kazlauskas (who are still owed a Rematch against the New Champs). If Ryan and Nick emerge victorious over Marijus and Mike once more, then Nate can pick any player currently ranked in the GTA to challenge Pienciak/Caputo for the Titles. The Doubles Division has never been more interesting!
Kathy Sheldon/Brenda Jordan over Dawn Peterson/Denise Savino, 6-4! No Aces.
Kathy Sheldon/Brenda Jordan tied with Dawn Peterson/Denise Savino, 6-6 (Incomplete when the ladies decided to stop there to allow others to use the court)! No Aces.
Samara's Notes: While that is very admirable on the part of the ladies, it is a shame they were not just a little bit greedy…greedy enough to at least play a Tiebreak for that second set…which could have either been the 2nd Set of a full match (had Sheldon/Jordan won) or at least another full One-Setter (had Peterson/Savino won). Oh well!
It also points out the fact that everyone is crowding the scene at Cedar Grove while some could have opted for Brookdale Park in Bloomfield instead. I saw many back and forth e-mails about people possibly planning to play at Brookdale, but nobody sent in any results from there…so I have to assume it ended up being a no-go.
We now turn this report over to Doinks who offers up a healthy dose of commentary before providing her result.
Anna arranged a Women's Doubles Match during the day in order for her and her partner to get ranked. Anna's partner is Teresa Peski. I remember her playing a Singles Match with Dino Celis last year (for Bergen Tennis). But I confirmed that after we completed our match.
I had wanted to partner up with Genalin Capan, but she unfortunately couldn't make it due to her work schedule.
We had originally planned to play the match in Brookdale Park to avoid the overcrowding at Cedar Grove. Anna and Teresa eventually changed the location back to Cedar Grove so we could more easily find a fourth player. All the courts were occupied when we got there, so we waited for our turn. Fortunately, Janice Wang, who was playing a set with three men, agreed to partner up with me after that One--Setter.
I don't know what time we started playing. We gave one of the courts that freed up to the Battle of The Sexes Finalists and then patiently waited for another court to free up.
2 out of 3 Sets Women's Doubles Match:
Janice Wang/Doinks Srinivasan over Anna Mazur/Teresa Peski, 6-4, 1-6, 10-6 (STB), as both teams entered the Women's Doubles Division as the New # 31 and # 32 Ranked Teams respectively! It was the official GTA Debut of Teresa Peski. No Aces.
More Details from Doinks: It was 9:30 when we finished the 2nd Set, so Anna and Teresa suggested doing a Super Tiebreak in lieu of a full 3rd Set to decide the match.
Anna is always the steady and speedy one between the two. Teeresa has a good all-around game and it would be great if she could play in the upcoming Singles Tournament.
After the match, Teresa and Anna treated us to a nice bottle of wine and some fried shrimp (sorry I don't know the dish's title) :-) I wish we had those treats at the end of every tennis session!
Anna's Annotation: Thank you, Doinks, for the recap. It was great to see the GTA people, as always. :-)
Samara's Notes: I thank Doinks for her very thorough and timely reporting. It is also nice to see Anna back with us this season and we welcome Teresa to the league. For the record, it would be great to have Ms. Peski be part of the GAH8…but she must first play a full 2 out of 3 Sets Singles Match against any other woman in the league.
We now go to some results sent in by The Riz.
Jordan Bachvaroff/Kevin Doyle over John Rizzo/Robin Wilson, 6-0! No Aces.
Senthil Kumar/Michel Encarnacion over Ralph Bernard/John Rizzo, 7-5! No Aces.
Nathan Fernandes/Tito Castolo over Ryan Pienciak/John Rizzo, 6-1! No Aces.
Samara's Notes: I thank John for his timely reporting. He sent in one more score, but since it is an incomplete one…I am now going to turn this report over to Kris. He had an incomplete one as well. I always try to have the incomplete results finish the report as we know them to be the last action of the night as they lead right up to it being a lights-out situation.
Kris starts off with a little commentary as well.
It was a lovely evening for GTA Tennis and our courts were packed...a full house of players overflowing the four courts! Everyone got a chance to play. Here is my involvement...
Kris Srinivasan/Tom La over Marijus Kuzavas/Natalia Sout, 7-6 (7-4)! No Aces.
Kris Srinivasan/Tom La leading Marijus Kuzavas/Natalia Sout, 5-2 (Incomplete when the lights went out at 10pm)! Marijus: 1 Ace on Kris!
The K has his say: We missed out on closing out the last game with Tom serving up 40-15 (Double Game/Match Point). Marijus had a winning shot and then on the next chance Tom hit a Double Fault!
Anna had brought her friend, Teresa, who played a real solid game and it is great to have her play among us.
Samara's Notes: I thank Kris for his timely and thorough reporting. And now we get that one last score from Mr. Rizzo.
Senthil Kumar/Tito Castolo leading John Rizzo/Frank Hohorst, 5-3 (Incomplete when the lights went out at 10pm)! No Aces.
Samara's Notes: I thank John for his timely contribution to this report as well. I heard from a couple of sources that there may have been a Mixed Doubles One-Setter involving Rafaelo Kazakov, Ted Cedroski, Louise Bysiek and Leslie Golle. But since none of them ever reported it, it will have to remain unofficial and they will not be included in the total of official competitors. And that total was 25…very impressive!
Sincerely,
Frank Samara
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