SALTAIRE38.blogspot.com "In the time of your life--live." That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition (--Tennesse Williams)
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SALTAIRE lineup was:
#1 Vinny Perna - Kelly Durcan (won in a very close tiebreaker)
#2 Dylan Patterson- Steve Carroll (lost)
#3 Matt Sirovich- Jeremy Mindich (won)
#4 Paul Kahn- Aaron Harnick (won)
#5 Ben Terk- Lee Nadler (won)
#6 Brian DeLeeuw- Evan Ruster (lost)
#7 Tom Jakobson- Alex Chefetz (won)
Bit of background from Dylan Patterson, as told to Hugh O'B: About a month ago, Dunewood challenged Saltaire to a "Davis Cup" style tennis match. This match will be played (in Saltaire) Friday Sept 4th from 12pm-4pm. There will be 2 singles matches and 3 doubles matches (all men). Matt Sirovich is organizing this event.
When I (editor's note: that's Dylan) heard that there was enough interest to host Dunewood, about two weeks ago I contacted Point O' Woods' head tennis pro Peter Heffernan (who incidentally taught me tennis ~20 years ago at the Heights Casino in Brooklyn) and asked "how about a Saltaire-POW tennis match?" I had played a junior match vs POW about 15 years ago, but I cannot recall there ever being a mens match. .. Matt please feel free to add detail if you are aware of more Saltaire-POW history. The head tennis pro was willing to host us, but the best available date was 10 days later, so we needed to quickly get a squad together. So Matt Sirovich and I rounded up 14 of the most seasoned Saltaire tennis players we could find.
Yesterday at 11:30am we met on the dock and took 3 boats down to POW (thanks to Jim McCann, Jeff Meluso, and Saltaire YC who provided transportation). All 7 matches went on simultaneously (they have 11 courts) and when all was said and done, we ended up winning 5-2. Most of the matches were very competitive especially the #1 match which came down to the final tie-breaker points... note that they played an Australian college player/teaching pro to match up against our Vinny Perna, who won... !
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