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Issue 9: Fall/Winter, 2003
The Foster City Tennis Club sponsors many teams and we have written many stories to share our team experiences with the club. For prior issues, please check out our archive.
- Senior Women's 3.0 Update
- Leo Ryan Park Mixed 8.0 Update
- 7.0B Mixed Doubles Team Update
- Women's 5.5 Combo Team Update
- Senior Men's 3.0 Update
- Senior Women's 3.5 Update
by Kacey Karmendy, Captain
The Senior Women's 3.0 team is off to a great start this season -- after nine matches, the team has a 7-2 record, and is trailing the first place team by only one win! However, we have a grueling 15-match season, so we still have to play six more matches between early January and February. The rain gods have not smiled on us, as we have had three rainouts so far. But, our spirits remain high and we are looking forward to more good tennis in the New Year. Thanks to Rosemary, Lynda, Karen, Dania (how's the knee?), Patti, Mimi, Marcia, Mary, Gemma, Marie, Cathy, Pat, Vikki, Maureen, Nancy and Phyllis for your dedication and support!
Leo Ryan Park Mixed 8.0 Update
by Clarke Nelson, Captain
The Foster City Mixed 8.0 Team which was resurrected after a winless 0-9 Season three years ago by then Captain and now current Club President Richard Olson, bids for its 3rd consecutive year to represent the Foster City Tennis Club at District Championships in Alameda. On the franchise's path to greener pastures, Richard Olson passed the baton on over to Clarke Nelson in 2002 and his 2003-04 Mixed 8.0 squad is currently sitting in 2nd place at 7-2 and is heading for a showdown for 1st Place @ Pacific Athletic Club on January 4th for 1st Place in the Mid-Peninsula Division in its final Match of the Regular Season.
A triumph over PAC on January 4th will not only give us the League Title but it will also enable Leo Ryan Park to gain Home Court advantage all throughout the Local League Playoffs, which will most likely mean playing the Championship game vs. William Wu's havily favored Canada College outfit of sandbagging talent here at Shell Courts in Foster City.
Leo Ryan Park has been led in 2003-04 by the surprising Bruce McTigue, who was a mere understudy during the Olson years, but who has since emerged into prominence in the current Season by amassing an 8-0 Record in USTA League Play. The unusual combinations of 3.5 men playing with 4.5 women has been golden for Captain Nelson, as the hot-shot quintet of Karen McNamara, Shannon Costello, Jackie Thomas, Nancy Farrell, and Kelly Lynch have gone a combined 14-1 in League play proving that Mixed Doubles success is primarily a function of female power.
Will Leo Ryan Park make it all the way to Districts for the third consecutive Season, and if so, how far will this year's 8.0 Team go after that? The stage will soon be set for exciting Playoff action come this early March at the newly renovated Shell Courts.
If you want to see dramatic and thrilling USTA Playoff action, come out to see the Mixed 8.0 Team defend its Mid-Peninsula League Title in mid-March and further bestow honor and glory upon the Foster City Tennis Club.
7.0B Mixed Doubles Team Update
by Vikki Mion, Captain
It has been an interesting season for our team. We had a rocky start, with several of our team members, also playing on Combo Doubles League Teams (availability problems), but we overcame that problem. Then Mothernature hit us were several rained-out matches....
Despite, these bumps in the road, we are alive and doing well, and it is all due to our outstanding team members: Joe Borzello, Wendy Chute, John Hayes, Melanie Hibbs, Rose Janisch, Jin Jue, James Layton, George Mena, Clarke Nelson, Lily Owyeung, Mike Saberi, Erin Stockford, Ram Venkatesan, Mark Wong, Mindy Wong, Randy Wong, Kenny Woo, and Amy Zhang.
Women's 5 .5 Combo Team Update
by Kathleen Pender, Captain
The FCTC's first 5.5 women's combo team had a winning season, finishing second and going to the local playoffs, where we lost to undefeated Half Moon Bay. Our team included almost everyone from the club's 2.5 team, and players from each of the 3.0 teams. Speaking for the 2.5 players, we loved the coaching, competition and camaraderie we got from the 3.0 women, who managed to hardly ever laugh at our blown serves and over-the-fence shots.
The players included Rita Armstrong, Debbie Babbitt, Mei Cao, Rose Carney (who had to ease up after she found out a little Andre or Steffi is on the way), Hanming Chen, Bae Cheng, Kathryn Chou, Evie Felton, Beatriz Garcia, Holland Kensington Routt, Laurie Leong, Vivian Li and captain Kathleen Pender.
Although Kathryn and Evie were our winningest team-mates, the "Never Say Die Award" goes to Mei and Beatriz, who battled back from deep deficits in two sets to win a match that had to be won to put us into the playoffs.
A special thanks to Evie, my unofficial co-captain and strategist, and to Vikki Mion, for dreaming up the team.
by Steve Tutt, Captain
The Senior Men’s 3.0 team is on a roll toward the playoffs! With a 6/5 record we are now in 4th place but not quite locked in at the time of this writing. In spite of our injury plagued roster we have managed to post convincing wins against the #2 and #3 teams in the second round of regular league play and lost a close squeaker to the #1 team from San Carlos Tennis Club. We hope not to repeat that performance in the playoffs.
We have a 20 man roster so I won’t list everyone but our record is posted at http://www.ustanorcal.com/teaminfo.asp?id=18816. We have a great bunch of guys with a super competitive spirit, great attitude and a lot of camaraderie. We’re doing our best to bring the league championship home to Foster City.
by Judy Olson, Captain
The Leo Ryan Senior Women 3.5 team is happily on a roll, on its way to local league playoffs. With one match to go, the team has the great record of 8-2, which puts us in the # 2 spot. Our last match is against the # 1 team, San Francisco Tennis Club. We hope to upset them, take them down a notch and secure our home court advantage for the local league playoffs. Stay tuned for results of this match and the playoffs which are scheduled for March, 2004. Way to go, team!Updated 12/16/03
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