....BLASToff

Well readers, did you get it? Your TennisTitan was back on the courts today less than 22 hours after his exhausting match with 'Rockin Rick' who prevailed in the third set because TT "ran out of gas." But your tennis slut could not say "no" to his long time friend Rich 'El Presidente' Prezioso who still harbors hope that he will sometime, somehow, knock the Titan off his lofty perch and win a luncheon at Squires courtesy of the 'Truculent Tightwad.' Well, it wasn't today. Indeed 'Prez' took away some motivation from Titan when he booked this opportunity by indicating that a scheduled afternoon eye doctor's appointment would negate a post match meal. But your Titan is a man of commitment, if not talent on the court, and responded with aplomb and precision on the Briarcliff Manor clay. TT, without his thunder stick and using a retired racquet in its stead, and with his legs aching so badly that passerbys shouted unabashedly, "That horse on the courts even looks like Barbaro" still did his thing. 'Prez' needed rolller skates to stay in most points as Titan pounded the backhand at the baseline and interspersed a sufficient numbers of droppers at net to have 'Prez' mumbling, "this is like the Jews against Hezbollah!" Oh yeah, I almost forgot - the results: (3,2,1). Maybe they didn't add the "bagel" to the Squires menu afterall!