Vamos, Muchacho!

With strains of Gloria Gaynor's disco era tune 'I Will Survive' spinning in his brain a relieved TennisTitan played his final match at the Lake Tarpon Tennis and Sail Club during his abbreviated one week stay. Fittingly George 'Genealogist' Pratt offered himself as the sacrificial lamb. But this was not the same meek ovine creature who has fallen so easily in the past to the 'bloated behemoth.' Facing the 'bombastic bumbler' was an invigorated Jay Hawk, a 'cantankerous Kansan' with renewed resolve, who battled the 'insipid idiot' to the very last ball. The boys had luncheoned a few hours earlier at Los Mexicanos and were sluggish throughout their one and three quarter hours of play. 'Genial George' took early command in both sets, obtaining the first break of serve before the 'ponderous plunderer' laid waste to leads in both sets, knotting each at four games a piece. TT secured the break in the 9th game of set one to close out (6-4) the contest by holding his own serve. Similarly set 2 went the distance as the 'wacky Wichitan' rallied to draw even at five games a piece by breaking the Titan at love. It became a test of wills as both combatants strove to summon their last bits of energy to seal a victory. The 'Yonkers Yakker' would not be denied. The 'immobile minotaur' swept the last two games to secure a hard fought (7-5) victory. The weary warriors met at net one final time to exchange burps and flatulence prior to the obligatory post match photo. 'Genealogist' quipped, "Titan, I hope all that Mexican food you inhaled earlier today becomes an issue for you in a 2' by 3' lavatory on Delta Flight 6868. "Hasta lluego, amigo," chortled the Titan.