10/18 Results.

10/18/18:

"Women's Doubles action at C.G.!":

There was just one session of GTA Thursday Night Tennis and it took place at The Cedar Grove Courts as four of our ladies got together for some Women's Doubles action (as reported by "The Marathon Woman" Doinks Srinivasan).  Let's go to her report now.

The Cedar Grove Results:

2 out of 3 Sets Women's Doubles Match:

Diane Raum/Kathy Marabondo over Doinks Srinivasan/Dawn Peterson, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, as both teams entered the Women's Doubles Division as the New # 23 and # 24 Ranked Teams respectively!  No Aces.

The Details from Doinks: Diane texted some of the ladies and we were all motivated to bundle up and play.  Dawn and I got outplayed in the 1st Set as both Diane and Kathy were finishing points at the net.  In the 2nd Set, Dawn and I switched our return sides as she now played on the Deuce side while I handled the Ad side.  We also played more aggressively with our net play.  We used the same strategy in the 3rd Set.  We had some long service games, breaks of serve and some net rallies.  Diane and Kathy prevailed in the end, winning the match.  It was a pleasantly cool evening of fun tennis.  The other court was occupied by some Men's Doubles action.

Samara's Notes: I thank Doinks for her timely and detailed reporting.  It sounds like the ladies had a great match...and there have been so many solid full Women's Doubles Matches this season...truly unprecedented!  Doinks went on to say who was on the other court and I'm not going to even bother listing them or trying to chase down any scores from them.  It turns out one of the guys has played with us a couple of times already, but since nobody has ever reported his name...he has yet to actually enter the league.  And I had heard there was a similar lack of reporting from the Wednesday night session last week as well.  I have too many more important issues to deal with right now to allow this type of BS to continue to bother me.

Sincerely,
Frank Samara