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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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Another excellent day for Monday night team tennis. This was the 4th MNTT, and at this point Larry is winning. He has won 3 of the 4, or 75%. Pick your poison. We had 14 courts and 56 players participating. One of the possitives this night was the fact that there was actually some food left for me afterwards on the poarch. Typically it's all gone by the time me and Larry have done the math and counted up the 3 rounds. Tony brought out some good stuff, and I especially enjoyed those crackers with cheese and jam. I had 5!


 
Two other possitives were round 1 and round 2. My team performed very well, going into the lead after the first round and expanded the lead 108 to 94 after round 2. I was sitting pretty watching the matches play out the way I had planned it. But then something happened in the last round. Team Larry surprisingly caught up and actually passed my team! I know exactly what he did, he put in Betsy E in a key match, and she and her partner scored a 7-1 victory on court 12. I have to say, a genius move. A close match on the CH court required my hands on coaching, and I had to walk out and talk to my players. We decided to return the other teams serves XC and then our net player would poach. Well... let me put it this way: it didn't go as planned. My team ended up winning 3 games against the other teams' 5 games.

At the end of the day I felt that if we could have kept the pace up, the Nahirny's could have won a free drink each instead of having to pay for 4 drinks. I feel that Larry was handed some donations in Round 3. And he accepted them.

Final score: Team Larry                                                                   Team Magnus

2 comments:

  1. A few comments Magnum PI - I will cut you a large amount of slack as you claim your native language is Swedish - a fact which none of us could ascertain. In truth, Jakob told us that you are really Finnish and speak Swedish with an American accent.
    In the interest of full disclosure, having been front and center watching your masterful coaching move when you substituted yourself and then missed covering the shot - I suggest maintaining a sideline position would be best for your team harmony.

    Ha - all in good fun (I hope)

    We drove by IKEA today on the way home from the matches in Newport- there was a big sign advertising the MAGNUSBURGER - do you get any residuals from this?

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  2. I forgot to mention, did you know that Bahar's longtime major squeeze and sweetie is Swedish?

    I knew there was something special about her that I liked

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