Introduction

Welcome to the Storm Grove Tennis Website. The purpose of this website is to have an online means of relaying information to Stingray tennis players and their parents. I hope you find it useful.

We had our third practice today, Wednesday, April 3rd. Our team is getting excited about our first match, which is scheduled for this Friday, April 5th, at The Boulevard. We will be playing Sebastian River Middle School. Match play begins at 4 p.m. Players need to report no later than 3:45 p.m. The competition should last until 6 p.m. but there is a good chance it may go a little longer than that.

After practice today, I drove over to Hidden Palms to watch some of the Oslo/Sebastian River match. It was their first match. Both of their teams looked good. I spoke to both of the coaches and they both noted that many of the matches went longer than they expected. So, instead of playing 8 game pro-sets, they changed some of the later matches to 6 game pro-sets. As it was, their match that was supposed to take 2 hours, took 2 and 1/2 hours, maybe longer.

We may decide to change the format so that all matches are 6 game pro-sets, instead of 8 game pro-sets. Players will play one set, with no-ad scoring. First to win 6 games wins, but you have to win by 2 games. If it gets to 6-all, a 7 point tie-breaker will be used to determine the winner.

One other note, the boys for Oslo and Sebastian were both wearing their gym shorts. I would like our boys to wear their gym shorts, too. The only drawback is that the gym shorts do not have pockets where you can keep an extra tennis ball for when you are serving. If you can find some tennis shorts that are the same color (blue) as the gym shorts, that would be great! I wish the gym shorts were green, because Sebastian's colors are also blue and I would like us to look different than Sebastian, but since this is the first match of the season, blue or green shorts will work just fine. For the girls who don't have the skirt that was made available for purchase, they should also wear their gym shorts, or else some other skirt/shorts that are either blue or green.

That's it for now. Please feel free to leave a comment or to ask a question. I will check this blog daily.

Looking forward to our first match!

Coach Daugherty