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Welcome back SWFTT players! We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, or Holiday of your choice, and all will have a “Happy Tennis New Year”!

I can say for myself, it was very needed to be on the courts Friday exercising instead of saying “please pass another piece of pumpkin pie”!

The morning was questionable to say the least. Rain followed by total cloud cover looked to dampen our comeback. The Landings team was called by Beachview and told their courts would not be playable. Captains worked and moved the match time and place to the Landings and 16 great players had a great time. The first match completed was won by the Landings. Second match completed won by Beachview. Third match Beachview goes ahead and rallied in the fourth match in a third set super break to win and take the honors of a 3-1 victory.

The Vines hosted Pelican Landing to another nail biter. Not sure why most of the “kiss your sister” 2-2 ties always seem to happen to Captain Bill Dueease, but it happened again. Bill did get the last laugh though, sticking Pelican Captain Gary Engelhard with an $80.00 beer tab (don’t worry, if I had Gary’s money, I’d burn mine)!

Plantation hosted Lighthouse Bay for the third match of the day. All matches were great matches and the decision for the 3-1 victory went to Plantation in a 3rd set super break. Special thanks to Captain Dick Ransom for taking and providing photos.

We had 48 guys that enjoyed great tennis, not to mention the loads of fans. Great job, great playing and it’s great to be back on the courts. Good luck to all SWFTT members playing in the Super Senior Grand Prix this coming week.

Have fun, play tennis and remember, “It’s great being us”!

Last week was a great week for SWFTT. First we had 48 League members playing great tennis. We had numerous fans watching this great tennis. We supported the economy by wearing out Penn and Wilson tennis balls and we consumed a great number of the drink of choice of men (brewsky’s).

Something a lot of you may not have noticed SWFTT was represented very well by 6 very good members at the Longboat Key Senior Clay Tournament.

The tournament started on Thursday, November 27 and finished on Sunday, December 2nd. The play included Men’s and Women’s singles and doubles starting with age bracket of 55 going up to 80. On the men’s side, there were 12 different events. SWFTT members won 3 of the 12 events and had 2 members reach the quarters of another event and 1 member make it to the Semi’s of the same division. I think it’s pretty cool that our guys brought home 25% of the 1st place winnings without having players playing in 4 of the age brackets. GREAT JOB GUYS!

To start with, SWFTT player Paul Veltman with partner Chuck Kinyon made it to the Quarter finals of the Men’s 65 doubles and lost to the number 1 seed.

SWFTT player Larry Albritton with partner Robert Dixon also made it to the Quarters in the same division only to lose in a three set thriller to another SWFTT member Mike Melnik and his partner Thomas La Penna. Unfortunately Mike and Thomas lost in the Semi’s.

SWFTT Team of Steve Shreiner and Howie Ames playing in the Men’s 60 Doubles Division played like superstars bringing home the 1st place title in that division. All matches were finished in two sets and Steve and Howie only gave up 16 games.

SWFTT member, Fred Drilling got the most “bling”. Taking 1st place honors in the Men’s 70 Singles and Men’s 70’s Doubles. Fred’s impressive play gave up only 23 games in total of both divisions for the tournament.

Guys, we’re proud of each of you. We’re glad we get to challenge you, learn from you, and be your friends. GREAT JOB!

Match # 6

SWFTT Members Bring home 1st Place