Pork Chops improve to 3-0

There’s a grumble in my humble stead.  I think someone is headed for a tumble.  Be assured it’s not us that will stumble but rather our foes that will mumble after playing us.  What’s changed you ask form this prognosticator of tennis?  Hmmm, everything has changed hasn’t it?  Bottom line, we’re ready to rumble and we are taking no prisoners.   Our team looked like it would crumble after we had to break up last year and we kind of fumbled and bumbled our way through the first half of the season.  But, as any 8 year old Rudolph fan will tell you – Bumble’s bounce!

The Chops upped our record to 3-0 with a victory over Kinetix 1 on Friday, January 30th.  Lynn Dickson & Tony Sciscione overwhelmed their opponents at first doubles 0&1.   At #2 doubles, Al Goodrich, a.k.a. the nicest man in USTA tennis, and Anne Maxwell showed what it means to be savvy veterans.  They won 4&4 over our doubles team of Beth Lelii and Mike Weidinger.  This was a chess match and we needed a few more bounces to go our way to win this court.  No shame – just a good performance from our opponents.

At #3 doubles, Veronica Loch & Chris Kyper won 1&2 over Antonia Tripp & Ravi Pillutla.  Veronica raises her lifetime Komet/Pork Chops record to 4-1 after last notching a victory in 2006.  Veronica played on a different mixed team for the last 2 years so welcome back V.  Chris Kyper has been playing in Central PA (CPD) and recently moved back to the area.  He and Veronica have paired up to make a nice team.

Next up for us is Lakeside.  They are 1-3 on the season but they have some solid players so as usual we’ll have to play a strong lineup to get past this team. 

It’s tournament time (and thank you Canh for the reminder.)  We are running the 2nd annual Kings & Queens tournament.  This was awesome last year and it was won by Amanda Leigh Player Hall and Canh Ho.  We’ll seed every individual team on our team and play it out.  I expect we will have 12 teams so it will take 3 wins just to get to the finals.  We will wrap this up right before Districts.  Last year the inter-team competition was brutal and I’m certain that it will be again.  Good luck!

We have four matches remaining after Lakeside: Pirates, Krushers, TST & Rally Cats.  It should be an exciting finish as only the top two teams advance to Districts.