Ernesto Santos and Gilberte Hemery won the Memorial Tournament, beating Keita Bangaly and Pierre Benjamin in the final, 13-9. Twenty-six players attended, making 10 doubles and 2 triples teams in this melee tournament. Eight teams qualified for the finals.
Originally scheduled to take place in Bryant Park, the venue was changed at the last minute due [...]
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 [...]
Steve Ginsberg and Xavier Thibaud quickly overwhelmed Ernesto Santos and Jeanot Ruperti in the final of the doubles carousel, on a fanny, no less.
Forty-seven players signed up to play on Memorial Day Sunday. All were paired with a different players for each game to make 19 doubles teams and the odd triples team. After 3 [...]
League play is finally over.
Ten doubles teams started the league earlier this year. The last semifinals had Pastis playing against Beauty & the Beast. Pastis, with Jean-Pierre Hemery subbing for Jeannot, beat Jean-Pierre Subrenat and Eric. Dos Presidentes had already beaten OM Fan Club earlier last month.
Dos Presidentes—Ernesto and Yngve—took the first game against Pastis, [...]
SATURDAY STARTED OFF with a surprise at Bryant Park—giant transformers and heavy machinery all on the path around the lawn, which had been dug out to make way for the ice rink. Suddenly we had lost most our courts. And we had 30 teams scheduled to compete in the 2008 New York Open.
But the club [...]