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.