PCA improves to 2-0

We won our match on Friday, November 20^th vs. Kinetix 1 3-0.  Kinetix had some availability issues but still managed to put up a good fight.  Congrats to our players who kept us going in the right direction.

On Court 1, Cathy Holskin and Holger Mackenthun faced off against Christine Kuritzkes and hard hitting Larry Jamieson.  Kinetix 1 jumped all over us to start this match as both Christine and Larry were making a lot of great shots and they went up 3-1 in the first set.  Cathy and Holger who recently played well and won their matches at Senior Mixed sectionals weathered the storm and settled in nicely.  We came away with a solid straight sets victory.

On Court 2, Joni Steinhardt and Vinod Philip played Dicun Yang and Melvin Morris.  We won this court 3&4 but from all accounts it was a super competitive match.  Melvin is Jackie Shaw’s husband and having a 4.5 in the family is good for anyone’s game.  Joni and Vinod had to come back from a 1-3 start in the 2^nd set to close this out.  Joni is our Delaware connection and she played very well with Vinod (where is Rebecca) Philip.  Great job Joni and Vinod!

Court 3 was a default and we played this match in order of strength – at least I think we did.  Kathy Joy Hammer and Rob Attman took on Dara Dipietro  and Jim Riggs.  I don’t know Jim Riggs but I heard he is a  4.5 and Dara is certainly top of level 4.0 so this makes our 3 set victory especially nice although it won’t be recorded in book form in the star registry.   KJ is moving (good luck down South!) and Rob is looking to make his mark at 8.0 just like he’s been doing at 7.0 for the past few years. Fantastic job KJ & Rob.  

It’s back to Tennis Addiction for the final 2009 match on December 4^th at 7:30pm vs. Just for Fun.  Just  for Fun is going to be anything but fun and they could easily defeat us with the talent on their roster.  We’ll have to gets lots of practice in so we can be well prepared to deal with our next challenge.  Happy Thanksgiving!