"Just What the Doctor Ordered"

TennisTitan joined four of his mates for some fun sets at Kinsley on this beautiful fall day in Yonkers. Titan, coming off two consecutive days of intense doubles play elected to be a late arrival and happily sat out the first set of doubles. 'Happy Jack' Carey and Frank 'Slats' Slattery responded to the challenge offered by 'Big Al' Dio Dati and George 'Chemist' Hauss. Trailing 1-4 the tandem of HJ/'Slats' pull off the upset (7-5). 'HJ' showed surprisingly good form with his volleys at crunch time and awed the Titan by serving it out in deciding game. Titan jumped in to pair with'Slats' for set 2 as 'HJ' decided that the 12th game was "his last call." Speaking of calls TT/'Slats' overcame some missed calls and late game resistance from 'Big Al'/'Chemist' to take the set (6-4). Titan had pop and placement on his serve but little else this day as 'Slats' did all the heavy lifting with his excellent mobility. The final set played was singles between 'Chemist' and the Titan. TT got off to a fast start opening up a two-love, 40-love lead before dropping the quadruple deuce third game and watched despiritedly as 'Chemist' exposed the 'bloated behemoth's coverage limitations and ran the table (2-6). As the combatants met at net Chemist expressed his appreciation to TT, "Titan, I had played poorly prior to this set; you're just what the doctor ordered when he said, 'Georgie, play someone old, slow afoot, and twenty pound overweight... why Tom, I do believe that's you!"