The outer edge of Hurricane Danny drizzled and then dumped rain onto the Singles tournament. It made the ground in Bryant Park into a pointer’s delight. Twenty-six players braved the bad weather. This was a far cry from last year’s 40 or so players who showed up for the tournament. But who can blame anyone for not coming. In the semis, Jean-Pierre Subrenat beat Charles Kossi and Thierry Julliard played a superb game to beat Ernesto Santos. In the final, JPS easily beat Thierry, 13-6.

• 1st Jean-Pierre Subrenat
• 2nd Thierry Julliard
• 3rd Charles Amuzu Kossi, Ernesto Santos

All the smart ones were away on vacation, or at the beach. A season low twenty-six players survived the hottest, muggiest tournament of the season. And from the heart-burn, caloric overdose from the picnic that broke out in the middle of the tournament. The carousel doubles randomly matched players in each game. The best 16 [...]

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STEVE AND LORISSA won all their games in route to a dominating performance in the Summer Melee Doubles tournament at Bryant Park. Thirty players competed in a hot and humid day. The ground was wet from an early morning thunder shower and gradually dried through out the day. But the threat of a huge thunder [...]

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ONE WEEK AFTER landing in Marseille, after taking in a tournament in La Boule Florian, and then playing in La Marseillaise, I went to Aurillac with Alec and Martha to watch the 2009 French Championship of Petanque, Doubles and Singles. The first day was held outdoors in a converted soccer field. On [...]

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THE TEAM FROM ST. BARTH—Philippe Sigari, Eric Chevalier, Carlos Natario—bested a field of 18 triples teams to take the Hery Open. In a drabby, drippy day at Bryant Park, the eventual winners took a first game drubbing from team Ernesto-Steve-Lucien (13-3). They didn’t lose another game.
Qualifying last to the finals, they outplayed the top-seed Ti-Yngve-Mo [...]

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