A storm a day keeps the players sitting around the tournament manager's desk! We have started singles knockout at last. Peter Just defeated Charlie Gillmarten to earn the right to play Matthew Essick to break a tie 22-15 in the fourth block. In the first block Jim Bast ousted Sherif Abdulwahab 26-7 to squeak into the knockout to play David Maloof. This morning we completed the singles peg down games as the rains came back with a fury hurling chairs, a table and every accessory to a croquet game across the courts, even into the backyard. After the rain we did our very best imitation of a polo game with our own divit stomp. After, of course, we retrieved the chairs, tables, clocks, clip boards and other croquet paraphenalia. We even had a squeegy crew!
The pegged down gamers arrived at seven this morning and played their games. The first round of doubles is almost complete with Selman/Mitchell tieing Abdelwahab/Bitting to force a third game.