Maria looks disdainfully at Dick Lancaster after being beaten by his patented dink.

Other News of the Week

John Wong’s Five Seasons’ 4.0 team had another rough week as they fell to River Oaks on Tuesday night.

Julius Skerian’s 3.5 Senior team had a nice sweep over Mentor. Roy Kaupe recovered from a bad slip to win his match in the third set match breaker.

Wembley wilts from the heat of River Oaks Seniors

The Wembley team lost all three courts to the Lancaster River Oaks Seniors. Rick and Egon on court one had a blast and put away Wembley's toughest team. Rick had his best game of the season and surprised the opposition with outstanding net play and some great topspin lobs. Egon kept the ship steady and pounded his serves. On court two Jay and Ron gave the watching captain heartburn as they seemed to take a little nap during the second set. But Jay woke Ron up and they took the match in straight sets. Mack and Dave had a hard time starting and dropped the first set. They switched sides and came on strong in the second and went on to win the third set match tiebreaker. They had no idea that they were playing against a world ranked shuffleboard player on the other side. (the things you learn at the table after the match.)

More from River Oaks last night.

Mack and Wally wait for Anderson and Dean to wipe there tears away after the 1st set. See if you can make out the other players. (click on the photo to enlarge)

Look at that form as Dick serves to win against North Ridge

Dick is a blur as he serves for the win in the 3rd set match breaker. Meanwhile our camera caught the thoughts of his partner Joe. (see Joe's brain now in the May Archive link) (click on the picture to enlarge.)

3.5's even things up with North Ridgeville!

With last night's match tied at two courts apiece and nine anxious team members cheering their every move, Dick and Joe easily won a super tiebreaker to seal another victory. The Tennis Guru was seen snapping many pix with his brownie flash cam , sure to be seen soon on this site. Doubles swept all three and although losing, Steve Hoelzer and Sam played well. Sam lost a third set breaker 12-14 and is a singles player to be reckoned with. Go Sam!! Next week, matches at Mentor and Wembley. Good luck to Dick's seniors tonight against Wembley! Who is this "tennisthemenace"?

Gallo's 3.5 Team Suffers Their First Loss

Tennis Guru, we could have used a case of your Traders Joe's Bear's Lair last night. After starting the season with 3 match wins, the Five Seasons 3.5 team suffers their first defeat 4-1 Wednesday night at Western Reserve. The only victorious court goes to Egon Luengo at 2nd singles. Way to go Egon, you are starting off a great year. The other courts....well, what time is practice on Sunday?

She give's lessons over the net? Which net?

Look what the guru found on the web. Teresa our tennis pro has a website. Link It says Lessons on Line. We all know that the lines are OUT! But just maybe she could teach those old slipper-waren' super seniors a thing or two. (Nice Picture, Teresa)

Supers Duper Hank Thomay's North Ridge team.

Joe Arcisz and Dave Bennhoff played the top team of Flickinger and Anderson and gave them a great match coming back from 2 5 to a set tie breaker and came with in a gnat's whisker of going to the match breaker. John Clark and Joe Pare had their hands full with Dolcini and Ritter. They were down in the second set tie breaker but came back to prevail. This caused Dolcini to throw his racquet down in disgust. (see the diagram below of Joe Pare's brain and you will understand that the "piss him off" mode kicked in). Hank and Frank just went to the bank and cashed in on DeMarco and Heindrichs. And a good time was had by all!

Cheap wine and a good cry helps the pain.

The tennis guru had to break out the cheap wine from Trader Joe's when he heard the news about Rick's team. He had the Bears' Lair cabernet while his lady sipped on the Pinot Grigio. (The Bears Lair is a young cabernet which could stand some time in the cellar, but it's nice alcohol content give a good buzz. The pinot is meant to be consumed young and is, (like some of my Lakewood friends) light and fruity. Oh, what has this to do with tennis? Well, like the fuzzy yellow ball, these two give you a nice fuzzy feeling.