Saturday - July 29, 2006

The heat wave was over. The morning was gray and slightly cool when 3 of the regular players (Zack, Rudy & Larry) and 5 guest players (Donna, Tera, Bill, Dave & Harry) assembled for the Saturday morning round robin. The teams were as follows:

Tera and Dave
Donna and Rudy
Zack and Larry
Bill and Harry

As expected Tera and Dave won all of their matches and took first. The results were as follows:

1st Round

Tera/Dave over Donna/Rudy 6-4
Zack/Larry over Bill/Harry 6-0

2nd Round

Tera/Dave over Zack/Larry 6-2
Donna/Rudy over Zack/Larry 6-4

3rd Round

Tera/Dave over Bill/Harry 6-1
Donna/Rudy over Zack/Larry 6-4

The refreshments this week were cheese & crackers (Dave), peanuts in the shell (Donna), chips and salsa (Larry) and beer and coke (Bill, Rudy & Zack). Most of the people stayed and enjoyed the comeradrie and refreshments.

During the refreshments Carole and her cute little granddaughter with her painted finger and toe nails came to submit tomatoes for the first weighing of the season for the 2006 Tomato Growing contest. Carole brought individual husband and wife entries for the contest. Gayten's (husband) entry nosed out Carole's entry by weighing 0.3 ounce more. Allegations were heard that Gayten did not give her plant as much fish emulsion to her plant as he did for his plant. The granddaugter remained neutral on this issue as she showed off her painted toe nails. Details of the weighing can be found at the Tomato Blog.

George will be on a temporary hiatus from the Saturday tennis round robin for a while. Bill will be filling in for him during his haitus.

The courts 1 - 4 will be resurfaced next week. Onome will meet with the contractor on Monday to learn how long Courts 1 - 4 will be closed for resurfacing and curing.

The ratings after today's play are as follows:

Rudy - 5.8
George - 5.1
Larry - 4
Zack - 3.9
Bill - 3.3

Bob F. - 3.5
Cyp - 3.7
Richard C. - 4.3
Louise - 5
Carmel - 5.2
Harry - 3.3
Ingrid - 5.2
Lee - 2.7
Richard S. - 3.7
Terri - 3.7
Rich T. - 4.3
Donna - 4.5
Cathy - 3
Onome - 2
John - 6
Dave - 6
Tera - 6

We'll be back next week, I think.

SATURDAY - JULY 22

On the hottest day of the year so far we were scheduled to start an hour later at 10 AM. Unfortunately at 10:20 AM we had 7 players. Richard S. did not show up. Luckily we were able to pick up Bob F, from a group that was finishing up. By the time that we started playing we were now into the heat of the day. The tennis results were as follows:

1st Round
George/Larry over Zack/Richard C. 6 - 2
Rudy/Bob F. over Bill/Onome 6 - 0

2nd Round
Rudy/Bob F. over George/Larry 6 - 4
Zack/Richard C. over Bill/Onome 6 - 5

Since it was now 1 hour past Zack's beer time he called off the 3rd round.

We adjourned to the deck to imbibe a little beer and wine coolers. George had to leave but left a big jar of homemade salsa. Everybody enjoyed the salsa immensely and voted to give George the salsa assignment for the rest of the year.

A discussion was held on Richard S.' failure to show up without any notice. Since 7 other players were affected by his no-show status. He narrowly avoided being ostracized from the Saturday tennis group by one vote. He will be put on probation and another no-show action will put him on the back page of the invite list.

The ratings after the play today are as follows:

Zack - 4.5
George - 5.1
Larry - 4.2
Rudy - 5.9

Richard C. - 4.3
Onome - 2
Bill - 4.6
Bob F. - 3.5

Carmel - 5.2
Louise - 5
Ingrid - 5.2
Harry - 4.6
Cyp - 3.7
Lee - 2.7
Richard S. - 3.7
Terri - 3.7
Rich T. - 4.3
Donna - 3.7
Cathy - 3
John - 6

We'll be back next week.

Rudy didn't deliver --











Here are the four guys who played on Court 1 (Left to right: George, Larry, Zack and Rudy).

Zack

SATURDAY JULY 15, 2006

Under some gray skies the 4 regulars (Zack, Rudy, George and Larry) assembled to play mens doubles. The sun broke through the gray skies early in the match. The teams were set in accordance with our rating system and resulted in a 4.0 team (George & Rudy) vs. a 3.5 team (Zack & Larry). The 4.0 team won all 3 sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. The 4.0 team did resort to switching sides back and forth to receive serve in the 2nd set to confuse the 3.5 team.

Everybody adjourned to the deck for some beer and peanuts after tennis. The peanuts were donated by another foursome on the deck.

The ratings after the play today are as follows:

Rudy - 5.6
George - 5.3
Zack - 4.5
Larry - 3.8

Carmel - 5.2
Louise - 5
Ingrid - 5.2
Harry - 4.6
Bob F. - 2.7
Cyp - 3.7
Richard C. - 4.3
Lee - 2.7
Richard S. - 3.7
Terri - 3.7
Rich T. - 4.3
Donna - 3.7
Cathy - 3
Onome - 1.5
Bill - 6
John - 6

We'll be back next week.

SHIT 7/15 --

Today is Friday and we still don't know if we will have 8 players for tomorrow's tennis. We have the regular four (Zack, Larry, George and Rudy) and Rudy's assignment is to get four more.

Will he deliver? I guess we will know real soon. Not to worry. Plan B will be the four of us will just play Fun And Relaxing Tennis (FART) as opposed to High Intensity.

Zack

Court Resurfacing

According to a sign posted on the tennis bulletin board, the courts are scheduled for renovation July 31st through August 4th. We heard that Courts 1-4 will be resurfaced. If everything works out with the renovation we will be playing SHIT on August 5th on newly resurfaced courts 1 and 3!

This calls for a celebration. I will bring some MGD on August 5th SHIT.

Zack

SATURDAY JULY 8, 2006

Under warm sunny skies 16 tennis players gathered at 9 AM for a "Super" Round Robin mixed doubles. Zack was the round robin chairman and he posted the pairings for each round. The players changed partners and opponents for each round. There were 3 rounds. The players were as follows:

Bill
Cyp
George
John
Larry
Rich T.
Richard C.
Rudy
Zack
Carmel
Cathy
Donna
Harry
Ingrid
Louise
Terri
Onome

The 1st round results were as follows:

Richard C./Bill over Harry/Cathy 6-1
Louise/Carmel over Terri/Ingrid 6-4
Zack/John over George/Donna 6-4
Rudy/Larry over RRich T./Cyp 6-5

Onome came and played the last 2 rounds. Zack retired to the deck with his bottle of MGD.

The 2nd round results were as follows:

Bill/Cathy over Rudy/Terri 6-5
Rich T./Ingrid over Onome/Donna 6-1
Larry/Carmel over Richard C./Harry 6-3
John/Cyp over George/Louise 6-3

The 3rd round results were as follows:

Ingrid/Rudy over George/Larry 6-4
John/Richard C. over Rich T./Terri 6-2
Bill/Cyp over Harry Louise 6-3

The big winners were Carmel, Bill and John as they won in all 3 rounds.

After the tennis we all adjourned to the deck for the BBQ/pot luck. Beer was in sight all over the deck. Richard C. was the BBQ master and cooked up the hamburgers and sausages. The additional goodies that could be partaken of was quiche, green salad, pasta salad, chow mein, watermelon, english toffee cookie, etc. We even had some white lightning imported from the south by Rich B. A good time was had by all.

Pictures of this event can be seen at

http://imageevent.com/zackc/tennisandbbq7806

The ratings after today's play are as follows:

George - 5 Larry - 4.2 Rudy - 5.2 Zack - 5.4

Carmel - 5.2 Louise - 5 Harry - 4.6 Ingrid - 5.2

Bill - 6 Cyp - 3.7 John - 6 Rich T. - 4.3

Richard C. - 4.3 Cathy - 3 Donna - 3.7 Terri - 3.7

Onome - 1.5 Lee - 2.7 Richard S. - 3.7

We'll be back next week.

Saturday Hi-Intensity Tennis (HIT)

SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2006

The morning started a little slowly with our last person showing up 20 minutes late. The mens group was there on time as usual. We welcomed a new player, Richard S., from the Long Beach area this morning. We hope to see more of him. The results of the round robin are as follows:

First Round
George/Harry defeated Bob F./Richard S. 6 -4.
Zack/Louise defeated Larry/Carmel 6 - 3.

Second Round
George/Harry defeated Zack/Louise 6 - 5.
Larry/Carmel defeated Bob F./Richard S. 6 - 1.

Third Round
George/Harry defeated Larry/Carmel 6 - 3.
Bob F./Richard S. defeated Zack/Louise 6 - 5.

George was undefeated for the 2nd week in a row.

It was good to see Harry returning to his old playing self.

Onome was playing on one of the courts this morning. He indicated that they were shooting for repairing 4 courts in the 3rd week of July.

The refreshments this week were brie and crackers provided by Carmel, cheddar and bread provided by Louise, apricots provided by Harry and sun chips provided by Bob F. Liquid refreshments were beer and wine coolers. Richard S. was given a warning for breaking Zack's edict of no light beer. He was caught drinking light Heineken.

The ratings after today's play are as follows:

George - 5.2
Rudy - 5.1
Zack - 4.9
Larry - 4.4
Harry - 5.5
Louise - 5.4
Carmel - 5
Ingrid - 5
Richa. - 3.7
Richard S. - 3.7
Bob F. - 2.7
Lee - 2.7

We'll be back next week.