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As a Joe Ely song I heard recenlty says, you’ve got to lift your leg a little higher to run with the big dogs. Green Valley Tennis Club members were 0-3 on Saturday, but performed admirably for a bunch of local old dudes.  Here’s the run down:
Jim Lewis and I gave away a combined 40 years in [...]

I had a dream sometime before dawn Thursday morning that my match in the Lukoil Open had gone to 15-games all in the third set, and that people all over the world were following it on the web.  That’s obviously a combination of my own delusions and a hangover from the agonizing loss Andy Roddick [...]

Of the five Green Valley Tennis Club members in this year’s Lukoil Open, Anthony Pozzi had a bye in the first and then won his second round match and is still in the hunt.
Jim Lewis won his first round easily, and then put in a strong showing in a los to the number one seed [...]

Five 4.5 NTRP-rated members of the Green Valley Tennis Club in Haddon Township, N.J., are competing tomorrow in the Lukoil Open, a prize-money event that has drawn players from as far away as California and Texas competing for the $2,000 top prize. 
 
I’ve already posted commentary on my match, but captain of our 4.5 team [...]

The draw is up for the Lukoil Open, and the years and statistics are against me.  I play Samuel Sherrill from Southborough, Mass., a recent number one player for Roanoke College in Salem, Va., in the first round at 3 p.m. Friday.   So I’m giving away about twenty years, but will give it a shot.  He could always [...]