PSC vs Royal Selangor Club 26 Sept 2009

This was the inaugural year for making this match part of a series of games. Loo Choo Teng brought down a team of 15 players and we played 5 mens doubles , 1 ladies doubles and one mixed doubles. Our ladies , Lisa and Keiko started us out with a crushing 8-0 win over the RSC ladies. Our Harry Ooi and Ben Loo also scored a point against RSC to put us up 2 - 0.

But Ben's father, our captain Loo "now no cramps" Choo Teng and Haris did not fare as well against RSC's top pair , nor did Colin Chan and Teik Hoe. But the crafty and experienced Naidu and the somewhat "boh yew" Tsu Ming won a tough match against the second pair to put the score at 3 - 2.

Sally Khoo and "Go Sasaski Go" were leading 7 - 5 with Sasaski running a marathon before RSC came back to win 9 -7 and tie up the event at 3 all.
So it was up to myself and Arthur Chin to play the decider. We got off to a good start leading 5 - 4, but couldn't pull away from them and found ourselves down 5 - 6. We managed to hold our serve to make it 6 all... but there were no heroics that day and we went down 6 - 8 to hand the tennis event to RSC 3 - 4. Fortunately, the other PSC section teams saved the day and PSC had secured the overall win 5 - 3 by dinnertime...with squash yet to play on Sunday.

Many thanks to all the players, some of whom were supportive enough to join at the last minute to make up for some late dropouts... Also many thanks to the supporters... and also I must add a correction to an earlier posting: Haris's wife suffered a ruptured tendon, not a sprained ankle and is only just now recovering...we wish her a speedy recovery back to tennis...

Tennis Court Resurfacing update

The resurfacing of courts 5 - 8 has begun, starting with courts 7 and 8. The vendor , Olympic Ventures , has done a nice job so far. They fenced off 7 and 8 very well.

The condition of the slab on 7 and 8 seems to be very good... with very little patching work required.. The also repaired the back of the courts which had been badly uplifted by big roots from trees on the other side of the fence... Luckily, this part actually turned out not to be part of the original slab so it was quite easy to repair...

Here you can see where they have dug up the slab where the old netposts used to be and are ready to put in the sleeve for the new netposts.

We expect that courts 5 and 6 will be shut down on 23 September. Based on the progress so far, we expect that they will be able to finish the courts toward the later half of October, so hopefully we won't have to queue so early for much longer.