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The Komet, my 2008 Mixed Doubles team is headed to Orlando, FL to play Nationals 11/21/08 – 11/23/08.   Wish us luck!! 

Since we advanced to Nationals we can have no more than 3 of us on any one roster for 2009.  The Komet is 4 years old with a regular season record of 44-4 and a post season record of 14-4.   Lets see if we can make some more waves and finish what we have worked so hard to accomplish. 

Below is the first update for my new 2009 8.0 Mixed Doubles team – Pork chops and Applesauce.  Returning from the Komet is Lynn Dickson, Canh Ho and myself.  We’ve added some great new talent and merged with Springton – my new co-captain is Vlad Grodecki.  Our first match was 11/7/08 vs. Kinetix 2nd String.

Big Points, Long match

All’s well that ends well right?  We had a marathon 2h 45m match with Kinetix 2^nd String on Friday, 11/7.  There was another USTA match being played and they finished all 3 courts before any of our courts came off.  I started Kinetix 2^nd String (originally called K2) 3 years ago.  There was a shot in the first year for this team to make Districts and they are good again this year – clearly the best they have ever been which is nice to see – but that doesn’t mean I want to lose to them.  Bill Eyre ran the team last year and now Liz Eukers is running the show.

At 1^st Doubles, original Komet-eer Canh Ho teemed with Margie Hamilton vs. Anne Dejdar and Dilip Rajagopalan.  Dilip is 6’4” and stands 8” from the net and hits angled drop shots and aggressive forehands.  We were up 4-1 in the first set but only managed to win the set in a tie breaker.  We lost the 2^nd set 3-6 and started the 3^rd set just after 10pm.

In the interim, new comers Kathy Joy Hammer and Kevin Pattinson faced Ed Daou and Liz Eukers.  We lost 6&3 despite having set points in the first set.   Liz and Ed are nice players so this was a difficult court to win.

At 3^rd doubles, Chris March came in looking like he recently got run over by a truck.  Chris got 9 stitches and a nice shiner when he attempted a top spin shot on Tuesday and clocked himself with his racket in his right eye.  At least that’s the story he went with…  On to business, despite squandering a 5-2 first set lead and numerous set points Cindy and Chris did manage to pull out the first set in a tiebreaker.  I wasn’t very close to the court but I thought I heard Cindy saying something about Chris’s left eye if they didn’t come through but I may have been mistaken.  We won the 2nd set 6-3 for an excellent start with our new team.  Great job.

And back to 1^st dubs, what a war.  Canh was playing well and our opponents were focusing on Margie.  It was on serve until Margie got broke to make it 4-5 with Anne serving for the match.  Anne won her first 2 service games of the set at love and the first two points of this game.  (This was the point that I was officially pissed – or feeling that I am not entitled to win and that we are going to lose.)   We won the next two points but faced two match out points in a gut wrenching sequence of shots.  But alas, we pulled out the break of serve and then won the tiebreaker 7-1.  Great job Margie and Canh – way to persevere.  We start the season 1-0.

Our next match is 11/21 which will be postponed because we have multiple team members traveling to Florida for 2008 Mixed Nationals (prayers welcome).   We have a bye 12/6 and that’s the schedule until 2009.

Great start team!!!