Wednesday, May 16, 2012

First Match

Well it’s that time of the season again.  The USTA League has begun this week.  The Jammers played their first match this last Monday, May 7th.  It was a very tight match for them.  We came out victorious, but it wasn’t an easy win for the Jammers.  Our singles players had an easy match with Teresa Emerson winning her match against Lesley Skinner with 6-3, 6-2.  Kayla Ratliff winning her match over Yvonne Bussmann by the scores of 6-1, 6-2.

Our doubles players had a tough time winning their matches.  We lost two of our doubles.  Beth Wilson & Nancy Winters battled it out against their opponents, Erin McAninch and Julie Warren, and won the first set 6-2, but lost in the second 2-6.  They fought hard in the third set tie-break, but lost with a score of 10-12.

Heidi Smith & Karen Griffin played well but were not able to pull out a win; they lost to Peggy Lindsey & Susy Barr with the scores of 6-3, 7-6.

The doubles team of Kelly Kramer & Lisa Powell was our only hope for the evening.  A win from them would mean a win for the team.  They lost in the first set 4-6.  They came back and won the second  set in a tie-break 7-6.  So it was down to the 3rd set tie-break.  And they did it; they stayed focus and fought hard.  They won with the score of 12-10.

What a way to start out the season.  One down and 8 more matches to go.  Hopefully the rest of our matches will not be as close as this one.  The Jammers has made their captain very proud! J

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