Weekly Update - Sunday 12/11/2011

We had a wonderful day for tennis today and everyone appeared to have a great time at our Sunday/Funday December tennis event.  Thanks to Patti Blessen, Social Chair and her helpers: Carol Miller, Sieny Kouwenhoven, Glady Olson and Helen Arnold.  There was lots of tennis with opportunities to hit the ball with club members that you have never played with before.  We did attract an even larger crowd for lunch with plenty of clean plates at the end of the day.  Thanks to all who came out and through their participation made this event such a great success!!

Pickleball Club wants all the tennis players to know that the coffee they have set out is also for the tennis players.  I think they do have cups but they are asking for you to bring a cup and a donation to help offset the cost.  I know that coffee is very welcome on some of the cold mornings we have been experiencing.

Tomorrow, Monday, December 12^th at 10AM  our Court Maintenance Team of Walt Krahl and Glenn Arnold will be putting up the wind screens.  If you have time, please come out to the tennis courts at 10AM and lend a hand.  It is also helpful if you can bring a ladder.    Walt and Glenn have a great process that goes very quickly when they have helpers.

Less than a month away on January 8^th at 4 pm is the famous Palm Creek Tennis Club Soup and Salad Social.  The sign up sheet will be posted on the bulletin board in the Social section  (faces the tennis pavilion).  Please take the time to sign up so our social committee knows how many tables they need to set up!!  This is always an amazing display of great food and a chance to catch up with all the tennis players who are coming into the park in January.

Also coming in January is a return of the very successful Club Team Tennis.  Mark has informed me that he has already heard from our friends at Robson Ranch.  This year we are also expecting a team from Mission Royale.  Club team tennis is played on Thursdays starting at 2 pm followed by the tennis club happy hour at 4pm.  The January session is scheduled for January 12, 19, and 23.  The sign up sheet for this session will be posted on the bulletin board.  So stop by and sign up and we will find you a team.  Club team tennis is for all levels of play and the teams are mixed to give every team a “fighting chance!”  If you are not in the park and want to play club team tennis, please let me know by replying to this email and I will put you on the sign up sheet.  For those of you who did not play Club Team Tennis last year here is a summary of how it works:

1.     Three women and three men per team

2.    All matches are doubles competition, “ad” scoring 

3.    Women will play the first 9-game set

4.    Men will play the second 9-game set

5.    Third set is 12-game Mixed

6.    Divide play equally amongst team members

7.    Only one top male and one top female player per team.  Top players are those that have placed first in A-Division of a tournament or first or second place in league play (or any player that is clearly a top player).

8.    Required to have a great time at the Tennis Happy Hour after the match

 One more item:  Mary Anderson, co-chair of the Palm Creek Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament  scheduled for February 1-3 is requesting donations from all of our “crafty” players for the tennis club’s raffle.  If you were not there last year the raffle provided some great entertainment and the monies all went to fight cancer.   So this is to give you time to start working on your “creation” to donate to the raffle.