last match of the season!

It was hard fought, but we amazingly got blanked 0-5 by Zylberberg, losing 3 matches in the 3rd set tiebreak. A bit of a bummer way to end the season, but as always, the tennis was good and everyone played well. Here are the scores:

1s: Donna played a heartbreaker of a game against Sue Nettleton, coming back to win the second set after losing the first, and being up 3-0 in the tiebreaker before losing it, 2-6 6-3 0-1 (5).

2s: Sue Lin faced the very steady, very versatile Lisa Martin for a second time this year and improved on her score, but still lost, 2-6 3-6.

1d: Jean & Alyson played a close match against Gail Zylberberg and Patrice Williams, winning the first set 6-4 and then letting the second set & 3rd set tiebreaker get away from them, 3-6, 0-1 (4).

2d: Kelly and Katharine almost made a great comeback against Marlene Stoltz and Carol McCarra in another 3-setter, losing 1-6 7-5 0-1 (8).

3d: Pam and Sara couldn't crack the spin of Mary Ann Sattler & BJ Hall, losing 1-6 0-6.

Interestingly, despite this win, and despite the fact that they have won 5 more individual matches and lost fewer sets and games (by quite a margin), Zylberberg's team win-loss record was worse than ours, which kept them behind us in the standings. So-- pats on the back all around to a season of great teamwork that got us the important team Ws even though the majority of the team had individual W-L records below .500. It was great to see everyone stay to support the team, and to come cheer us on (thanks Joy & Neena!).

Our record continues to improve every year, and I'm especially pleased to see that we ended the year with a 6-6 record (last year I believe we were 7-9) ... reaching .500 for the first time! and in a very difficult division where every match came down to the wire. We are winning more of these close ones every year--kudos to all those 3rd-set tiebreaker wins!

And many thanks to Neena for unofficially but dutifully recording our efforts & uploading them to the blog. With this most recent set of videos, I have become almost painfully aware of my 4" foot-faults ;-).

See you all at b bistro on July 8 ... 5:30 pm!