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FEBRUARY 20 - 21, 2010 STRAIGHT DOUBLES TOURNAMENT
The next tournament will be the weekend of February 20 - 21, 2010. The format will again be the standard double elimination format. As this is "the season", it is a good idea to make reservations early. If you are planning to play, you must sign up by 7:30 p.m. on the eve of the tournament. Sign-up at the clubhouse, or contact Jef, phone 760-767-4536, e-mail: jefbstc@gmail.com, or if all else fails, call the tennis center at 760-767-0577 the Friday night before the tournament (definitely before 8 p.m.). The draw will be completed by around 9:00 P.M. and play will begin on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. If you want us to call you with the start time, add your phone number with your name when you sign up. Also, if you are just joining the club, please provide contact information, preferably an e-mail address, if you wish to receive a newsletter, and if you want to be listed in the club's directory. If you want to share and consume goodies, there will be a Goody Bar in the clubhouse on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
SATURDAY POTLUCK / HAPPY HOURAs usual, we will have our potluck on the first day, Saturday, of the tournament. Happy hour starts at 6:30 p.m. and dining starts about 7 p.m. If you have door prizes to give away, put them in the "door prize area" before the dinner.
BORREGO NEWSThe week before the tournament saw about 4" of rain fall in the valley. Before that, the Borrego Sun ran an article about how unseasonably warm January was. This all changed, however, when the storms hit, and temperatures for the January tournament were on the chilly side!The weather pattern this season is storms hitting every 1 - 2 weeks, sometimes lasting a few days. Although this will be good for spring wildflowers (the desert is already very green), there is more chance of a rainout at the tennis tournaments. At today's writing, February 9, Borrego is in the middle of 3 days of mixed good and stormy weather. So far in this storm, only about 10% of the time would rain delays have been necessary on the courts. There is a good chance the next storm will miss us in 10-12 days (Feb 19-21), based on how frequently the storms hit. In any case, we are much less likely to be rained out than on the coast.
Many did not come to the last tournament due to worries on road access problems. In regard to possible road hazards, if anyone is coming to Borrego via Hwy 79 (either from Santa Ysabel or Temecula), after turning on S-2, you can bypass the Montezuma Grade (S-22 - maximum elevation 4200'), which is more likely to have either ice or rockfalls closing the road, and continue south on S-2 (maximum elevation 3600') until it ends at Hwy 78 (after 10 miles or so). Then turn left, and then left again after 7 miles at the next paved road (S-3), which takes you into Borrego. S-3 has about 1/2 mile of possible rock-slide hazards, so if that's closed, continue on 78 another 7 or so miles to the next paved road, Borrego Springs Road, turn left and take that into town. The differences in travel time with either of these routes is small.
The other possible bad weather route is to go through Palm Springs to Salton City, and turn right on S-22, which will take you directly to the clubhouse (maximum elevation 2000'). This will, however, almost always take significantly longer (45 to 90 minutes each way). From San Diego, there is yet another alternate route (maximum elevation 4100'): take I-8 east about 2 hours to Forrester Road, turn left on this, go about 15 miles N to Westmoreland, turn left on 86, go another 15 miles, left on 78, and right on Borrego Springs Road. This will take an extra hour, but bypasses all curvy mountain roads. It is not the way to go when snow levels fall to 4000'.
ANZA BORREGO TENNIS CENTER SLIDESHOWJef took 34 pictures at the tennis center just after the January 24 tournament, and organized them into a slideshow at:http://www.anzaborregotennis.com/slideshow.html
Most displays are not able to show the 1200 pixel wide pictures completely in an internet browser. Most browsers have a zoom factor, however. I find that in Internet Explorer, setting the zoom control (at bottom right) to 50% does it for me.
JANUARY 2010 TOURNAMENT Despite many people cancelling their trip to Borrego due to possible hazards on the roads due to results of the storms, turnout was a respectible 39 players! 21 men and 19 women. Mike Shoemaker assisted in the draw and was emcee during the awards ceremony. Thanks, Mike!
Weather was perfect for tennis this weekend with highs in the low 60s and sunny skies! Mountain snow was seen below 5000'. Four drawings were held after the tournament, and winners were announced by the president, Marilyn Bean: Bill Linder won the $50. The remaining winners were not present: Hank Wennik won the free tournament. Two hats donated by Tom McClure were hastily given away, as the ordering of the prize drawings was backwards -- people started leaving in droves after the $50 drawing was announced.
Bill receiving $50 from Marilyn
Bulletin Board on 1/24/10
| RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD | OVER THE RAINBOW | CRYING IN THE RAIN | |
WINNER Susan Dow - Randy Hyde Randy substituted for Sawhney Pardama | WINNER Hal Cohen - Nine Hanson | WINNER Larry Wagner - Janna Wagner Larry substituted for Fred Dow | |
RUNNER-UP Denny bean Vickie Mercer was not present at Awards Ceremony | RUNNER-UP Pete Azar - Concha Rivera | RUNNER-UP Sheldon Baker - Peg Lieb | |
| Jim Ammons - Barbara Ash
Borden Granger - Yvonne Russell Jack Russel - Susan Ammons Fred Biere - Kerry Armstrong | Jef Johnson - Charlotte Rice
Doug Baker - Kersti Garthwaite Gary Edwards - Marilyn Bean Harold Larson - Sandy Kean Don Wilson - Marla Anderson | Harold Maier - Kerry Anderson
Bill Linder - Jacki Shallahamer Mike Shoemaker - Susan Dow Larry Wagner - Harriet Lisak Ken Shallahamer - Bonnie Wilson Al Lieb - Joanne Cohen | |
| Oct 24 - 24 2009 Mixed doubles | Feb 20 - 21 2010 Straight doubles |
| Dec 5 - 6 2009 Straight doubles | Mar 20 - 21 2010 Mixed doubles |
| Jan 23 - 24 2010 Mixed doubles | Apr 17 - 18 2010 Straight doubles |
BAD EMAIL VIRUS (Revised in 2010 by Jef)If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous E-mail virus yet.
It demagnetizes the strips on all your credit cards, reprograms your ATM access code, replaces all songs on your MP3 player with a scratchy analog version of "3 Blind Mice" and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play. It will completely re-write your hard drive (and your soft drive too). Not only that, it will scramble any media that is even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will give your ex-significant other your new phone number.
This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your soda and leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic. When executed, "Badtimes" will also give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine.
"Badtimes" will give you Dutch Elm disease and brown patch. If the Badtimes" mail message is opened in a Windows 7 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, but it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
It will not only perform alchemy on you tennis racquets by turning graphite to lead, but will also adjust the string tension so high that when you hit a ball as hard as you can, it won't even reach the net. It will depressurize any can of tennis balls within 50' of your computer, and cause your opponents to call all your amazing shots out, even when they are clearly in! It will cause you to miss an overhead AND pull a hamstring just before landing on your behind in front of a large crowd.
These are just a few of the signs. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
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