Tournaments
MVTC August 2010 Tournament: All Club Team Tennis
Date: August 7th, 2010
Time: Two sessions - Morning (8:30am - noon) and afternoon (1 - 4:30pm)
Location: Rengstorff Tennis Courts
Entry Fee: $15
Entry Deadline: August 4th at 5pm (online)
Participants: Any member of the following clubs: Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Tomodachi, Fremont Hills
Tournament Director: Michael Jiang
Food: Breakfast and lunch provided
Food Chair: Patsy Duke
Team Theme: TBD (give us some ideas in the suggestion box on the entry form)
After a break in July we're ready for a fun, crowd pleasing tournament: Team Tennis!
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Team Tennis format, in a nutshell:
- Signup as a player (you'll need to supply a rating)
- We'll put together evenly talented teams
- Show up on Saturday and prepare to play doubles tennis (men's, women's and mixed) with members of your team against the other teams (you'll play either in the morning or the afternoon)
- The team with the highest cumulative point total is the winner (bragging rights :-)
- A delicious lunch at Noon!
The hardest thing you have to do is signup!
Teams
Click here for team assignments and the schedule of play.
Tournament Director's Report
This year's August team tournament closed its curtain on August 7th at Rengstorff park. Around seventy players registered and showed up in this fun event. They were grouped into 8 teams, four playing in the cool morning session and four in the hot sunny afternoon session.
Unlike previous year, it was a one-day event this year, in response to requests from many players. Although compacted, it proved to be yet very efficient and players found even more fun by playing as many as 6 rounds, each with 5 games and no ad scoring.
Right, no one denies this: no tournament is good if its food is not good. We had a delicious lunch, which provided players with enough energy but was not too heavy for a 3-hour tennis session either ahead or behind. Thanks Patsy! But you guess what? We might have ended up eating a "cold" BBQ lunch if Carol hadn't diplomatically and bravely warded off the park police, hehe ;-)
Results? No wonder "Match Pointers" knew how to grab most points and were the winning team in the morning. Even more impressively, the Karate Kids came with new Kung Fu moves and hit a record high 77 points to beat all other teams in the afternoon. You guys deserve a box of Dunlop :) Congratulations!
Look forward to seeing you in the next tournament!
AM Winners:
PM Winners:
