Wow, what a beautiful weekend we were treated to for our March tournament! Perfect temperatures and no wind, even on the Quay Courts. There was no excuse not to play our best tennis!

Well, except March Team Tennis was the FIRST tournament of the season, so we had some rust to knock off. With only 18 players, everybody got LOTS of tennis to do just that.

Ivan Quinones, tournament organizer, put together 4 teams, captained by Karen Brodersen, Sundar Venkateswaran, Tom Salles, and John Jordan. In keeping with RSTC’s philosophy of fun in the sun, the captains cooperated in trying to make match-ups that would be competitive. The scores reflected Ivan and the captains’ efforts as 3 teams ended up with very close scores: 46, 44, and 43 games won. Sundar’s team won with 59. Congratulations to Sundar, Steve Hogan, Eric Nielsen, Don Smith, and Laurie Coleman. The prizes will be useful all year — a handy canvas bag (with dividers to hold 6 bottles of wine at another time) was stuffed with tennis essentials, including balls, a first aid kid, headband, etc.

In other news, RSTC was pleased to be able to make a donation of $1,000 to Redwood City’s Parks & Recreations Department, in appreciation of Redwood City’s long partnership with us in supporting tennis in Redwood Shores. Mayor Ira thanked us and wrote that our donation was appreciated in this difficult economy. The money will be used towards maintenance of the courts. Redwood City also recently resurfaced all of the courts.

Ready for warm weather now!

— Karen Brodersen, President of the Redwood Shores Tennis Club