Taking Weekend Tennis Seriously

There’s some angst among my area’s USTA tennis players and captains about this weekend’s playoff tournament because rain is in the forecast and the local league office decided that they still wanted to get the City Championship in and done with. They’re getting ahead of the weather and now all matches will be played indoors. There wouldn’t be a better weekend the rest of the year than Nov. 21-23, the Dallas Tennis Association officials reckoned, to fit in a tennis tournament of this size and magnitude that involves, no doubt, a ton of moving parts and logistics.

Here’s where it gets good though: due to the limited availability of indoor tennis courts, the powers that be made the playoff pool smaller and removed all the second place teams from advancing.

GASP.

😯

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