Double Teaming
by Robin Dawson

The players at Southbridge Racquet Club in Savannah really stick together.  A large group of them came together to form three teams participating here at the State Championships.  And yes – many of them played on more than one of these teams.  Some are members of all three, but rules only allow a player to compete on two teams at the same Sate Championships. 

Seven players from Captain Greg Stewart’s 8.0 Senior Team also played here on Captain Chris Lane’s 8.0 Adult Team.  And 9.0 Adult Team Captain Daryl Bondurant willingly shared some of his players with Stewart’s 8.0 Senior Team. 

How in the world did they keep all this straight?  And how many matches a day were these folks playing, anyway? 

Well, I asked… 

Greg Stewart (8.0 Senior Captain, if you’ve forgotten by now) admits coordinating the logistics of all the different match times and all the different locations for three different teams in three different categories “was tricky!” 

8.0 Senior Team member Norma Johnston (who had a little more time to talk as she wasn’t rounding up what sure seemed a good number of the players here at Newman Sunday afternoon) said, “After each match the captains had to physically assess each player to see who was feeling good, who needed a rest, and who could actually get as close to being in two different places at once as possible.”  

Norma said the maximum number of matches a team member played in one day was three, but said that wasn’t uncommon at all.  

So how’d they fare? 

Team Bondurant (9.0 Adults) took first place!

Team Stewart (8.0 Seniors) also took first place!

Team Lane didn’t do so well, but who can blame them?  These folks have got to be exhausted! 

Congratulations to each of you!  What a feat – in organization alone!