March Social Tournament Report

Film buffs will be familiar with the film ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ featuring Richard Gere. What they may not know is that the film now has a sequel: A Tennis Warrior and A Lady’ featuring Ann Clark!

What’s this all about? I hear you say. Well, it’s an allusion to two of the features of the March Social Tournament which, among other things, made it a unique occasion

At one minute to midnight (or rather the start of the tournament) we found ourselves unexpectedly minus two players – one woman and one man. Into the breach stepped our Lady Tennis Warrior – Ann Clark – to be joined by a male Tennis Warrior, Edwin Tsang, who arrived intending to take part in the Sunday mix-in but instead found himself playing in the tournament.

And both players rose to the occasion with aplomb, eventually finding themselves in the group of top scorers as per the picture below:

From left to right: Edwin, Men’s runner-up, Ann, Women’s runner-up, Nigel, joint Men’s Winner, Kerry, Women’s Winner, Stan, joint Men’s Winner.

Congratulations to them and to the other 11 players who contributed to an enjoyable morning’s tennis.

Our Social Tournaments are taking a break to make way for the Club Championships. We return in October with more fun tournaments.

We hope you have a continuing enjoyable tennis season. IK