FROM THE TENNIS CLUB SPORTS DESK
DATELINE:
10/15/2013
* Last Night's Matches-
* Overheard / Confirmed-
The Sports Desk is in (rare) agreement this morning: yesterday was a fantastic night for tennis at the Club! Cooler weather, no bugs, great tennis and good friends.
In Mens B Singles, Logie bested Mrotz 6-4, 7-6 (3). Logie played controlled tennis against a fast riser in Mrotz. The match was as close as the score indicates.
Womens B Singles: Richmond defeats Seward. 6-0, 6-0. The score was hardly indicative of the match. LOTS of deuce games but Richmond won all the key points. Visiting from St. John for the month...we welcome Greeba, who called looking around to play some tennis and ended up entering in three events! :)
Womens B Doubles: Angie Klein and Sue Gibbons defeated Joan Warren and Lisa Adams, 6-1, 6-2. This was Angie's first tournament in years. The Sports Desk raises its collective tumbler of Scotch and winks, "There you are, kid... welcome back". Angie and Sue play again on Tuesday night against the #1 seeded team of Flo Logan and Deb Schreiber. Something tells us this will be the match of the night.
Mens A Singles: Alex Elizee defeats Zach Armstrong by default. We are reminded of the Woody Allen quote about 90% of success is just showing up. The Sports Desk nods its collective, world-weary head in agreement, knowing this is probably the only reason it is employed.
Mens A Singles: Alec Kuipers defeats Jason Miller 6-2, 3-0 retired. It generally takes something exceptional to raise the collective head of the Sports Desk out of the plagiarizing other writers' work, but the Miller/Kuipers match did just that. Miller was serving his usual high-velocity bombs. Young Mr. Kuipers had absolutely no problem returning one of the best serves on island. Miller on several occasions ripped balls into the corner but Kuipers chased it down and fired it right back. In short, Kuipers had a reply for every great shot that Miller could muster. The long rallies eventually got the best of Miller whose legs locked up in the second set as surely as the Sports Desk's fading Underwood Standard Champion manual typewriter.
The Sports Desk rifled through its pile of massively disorganized notes and found that Miller has been training with Kuipers now for a couple of years. So in some small way, Miller helped to create the monster that dismantled him so elegantly on Monday night. The Sports Desk seldom takes sides unless discretely paid to do so, but success couldn't happen to a better young man.
Mens A Singles: Junior Bannis defeats Alexis Camarena 6-0, 3-6, 6-0. Is there anyone playing better tennis on island right now than Mr. Bannis? The Sports Desk dramatically lights a cork-tipped, Pall Mall cigarette and shrugs, "maybe not". This was a heavyweight slug-fest with two great shot-makers pounding clean winners from any position on the court. A very entertaining match indeed.
CONFIRMED! The Sports Desk has learned that the rumors are true: there is a three-figure wager on a certain player in the Mens A Singles draw to win and after last night's results, that bet is still live. The Sports Desk actively encourages degenerate wagering on pretty much any event. This news is shameful...just shameful.
OVERHEARD! The Sports Desk has been privy to certain backroom dealings, intrigues, bribery, double-crosses, and shenanigans involving numerous Mens A players looking to lock up the services of the supremely talented Mesdames Laugle and Ward in future Mixed A events. So unethical and overheated has the jockeying become that the Legal Desk (whom the Sports Desk has just about had enough of with its fancy degrees and big words) issued two words of advice for Laugle and Ward: RESTRAINING ORDER. Club President and attorney, Carl Beckstedt, at your service.
