Silver and Bronze 65/55 at Intersectionals; Southern (65) & Mid-Atlantic (55) take Gold Medals

The drawings are right here.

The outcomes (individually) are right here.

It was a protracted however good day on the Veltri Tennis Heart (Plantation, FL) yesterday for the SoCal and South 65 groups. We warmed up at 7:45, performed at 8:30 and completed round 5 pm.

We performed the Southern with 10 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North & South Carolina, and Tennessee. Our southern third of California (by way of space…although not by way of inhabitants). Demographically although, SoCal has about 20 million folks in comparison with 47 million within the South (so not an enormous disparity as seen and our local weather we’ve got a very good match for tennis all yr spherical.

Ann Younger at #2 performed nicely and ran higher to beat Tina Karwasky 61 62; I beat Sue Bartlett at #1 60 63…the second set was difficult, a number of deuce video games, Sue modified her patterns and moved higher, the wind got here up (though by Florida requirements it was a breeze). Una Davis and Bunnie Jackson (South) had been simply beginning their third set at #3 singles after I completed and their first two units had been 76 (Una) and 62 (Bunnie), so you may see that our matches how tall it was as compared. Each are lefties, so morning solar was a function of each; Bunnie raced out to a 4-1 lead, Una battled to stage the set however Bunnie performed sturdy, sensible final video games to place Southern up 2/1. So it was two, and each video games had been tight. Colleen Ferrell and Betsy Kuhle at #2 had three set factors within the first set when Southern (Jackson and Michelle Spiers) gained by 76; Southern took the second set 64 to win the title. At the moment Una and I performed repeatedly … three hours, in opposition to Bartlett and Anne Frautschi, we gained 76 (2) within the third. Una and I ran into one another (we gained that time, in all probability distracting our opponents), we misplaced a degree when Una referred to as mine thrice (and I hit the ball in fact, leaving 90% of the court docket open for the winner), and each groups performed various kinds of…recreation candy although.

NorCal beat Jap 4/1 to take bronze.

In a 3/4 matchup between SoCal and NorCal within the 55s, SoCal rounded out its lineup, that includes Kathy Settles at #1, Christina Kaus making her debut at #2 and Jen Beindorf at #3. Settles defeated Julie Silveira 4,3 Kaus defeated Lindsay Montero 5,3 (Kaus ran her down!…nice match each) and Beindorf fell to Lisa Chang 2,3. Nevertheless, Beindorf/Settles defeated Montero and her sister Shelly Bartlett Sweeney 10-8 in a tiebreak (that was not an choice given to us and it was not a deciding recreation…hmmm). So the SoCal 55s took the bronze. Kim Kinberg/Kaus fell to Chang/Barrie Bullmore 5,3 to make the rating 3/2.

Mid Atlantic (which beat SoCal 3/2 within the finals), beat Texas 3/2, gained each doubles successfully after happening 2/1 in singles.

The SoCal 80 & 85 groups play for gold at the moment, in opposition to Pacific NW (80) and Florida (85). The SoCal 75 workforce misplaced to Southern within the semis…the format is 2 singles and a pair of doubles, and so they tied the match however Liane Bryson gained her singles in three units and Southern gained at #2 in straight units… all different video games are gained once more. they misplaced in straight units, so that they misplaced in straight units. They’re taking part in for the third time at the moment and they’ve some accidents

The groups of 35 and 45 began taking part in yesterday. I’ll discuss once more about 75/80/85 tonight or tomorrow and 35/45 on Sunday.

Massive because of Colleen Ferrell who’s the overall coordinator of SoCal, our captain, Tina Karwasky, SoCal for serving to with bills and my teammates who’re nice gamers and nice folks.

The Belmar Gunderson Award went to Fran Chandler, who was out on the intersection as a consequence of shoulder harm/surgical procedure.

Additionally (that is for you Mary, to see in case you’re nonetheless studying)…Mary Mottola had a much bigger bandage on her injured leg yesterday (she pulled a muscle), the muscle was purple and she or he will not be taking part in tennis anytime quickly. aggressive quickly, however hopefully he’ll be again once more earlier than one other decade passes. Chris Pearlstein was doing nicely after the center assault the primary day, and his ekg and so on got here out superb within the emergency room. So I hope it was simply the warmth/humidity and so on.