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MIXED DOUBLES Play year-round on Monday, Wednesday, Friday - weather permitting. 1:30pm during colder months (Nov through April) | 9:30am during the warmer months (May through October) Regulars will be notified via email when time changes. Format: 4 game sets, then teams break and new teams formed. Otherwise ITF Rules of Tennis apply. All players are welcome. Contact: Maury Nunes (770.720.5003 | man.apc@outlook.com) or just show up. Courts are reserved for this Doubles group.

WOMEN’S DAYTIME DOUBLES Organization begins upon advent of warmer weather and lasts through the early fall. The format for women’s tennis is regulation tennis, 2-3 full sets. The level of tennis played is B-5+ (ALTA) or 3.0-3.5 (USTA). It is played during the warmer months only (May/June through Oct. 1). Former ALTA or USTA newcomers are welcome. Contact: Jill Rose at roses43@windstream.net or 770.720.8961

PRIVATE PLAY is always encouraged; to help, we provide a roster of the known players who live in Lake Arrowhead. This is kept within the tennis community and not shared outside Lake Arrowhead - contact Maury Nunes at 770.720.5003 or man. apc@outlook.com. To check to see if a court is available, you may contact Membership at membership@lakearrowheadga.com or phone 770.721.7912

PICKLEBALL Looking for a fun way to get some exercise? Join us on Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday afternoons at the Red Cloud Pickleball and Tennis Center or just come out a see what it is all about. For more information regarding Pickleball, contact Bill Hess at 770.704.6297 or B3779@hotmail.com. We now have an active Novice group playing Tuesday mornings and Wednesday evenings. For more information contact Jim Winchester at 470.222.1634 or 0915jimbo@att.net.

ALTA TEAM PLAY is based out of BridgeMill as Lake Arrowhead is outside the ALTA boundaries. Call 770.720.9635 or email pat. perry@hmsgolf.com.

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MIXED DOUBLES TENNIS UPDATE

by Maury Nunes, Ink-Stained Tennis Wretch

Are you a tennis player new to Lake Arrowhead? Or a former tennis player wondering why you aren’t playing and thinking maybe you’re due to get back to the game?

Lake Arrowhead Mixed Doubles would love to welcome you to join our play. Here’s what you have to look forward to:

For the summer we are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday & Friday at the tennis courts at Red Cloud Park. Note that there is no water fountain at the Courts so bringing a cool drink (and maybe a snack) is encouraged.

Around mid-October as weather cools, we switch to same days at 1:30 p.m. for which an announcement will emanate from this website.

You just show up to play and everyone who’s there organizes into doubles teams, usually in order of arrival. If there are not multiples of 4, some people will play singles or just volley while some may prefer to sit, particularly after playing a set or two.

Sets are games of 4, not 6, so each person serves one game. Tie-breakers are 1 point, both for games and for sets. After a set ends, the losing team goes to the lowest number court in use and the winning team moves up to a higher court unless already on Court 1.

Teams split up after each set and new teams are formed by those arriving from another court also splitting. The idea is to give everyone the chance to play with others and to prevent any team from being dominant.

The effort is also usually made for teams to be gender mixed, but sometimes players will opt for a “Guys’ Game” and a “Girls’ Game”. On the other hand, sometimes there’s an uneven number of each gender so the goal is to try to even up skills.

Speaking of skills, some of our players have been ALTA-ranked with ALTA experience and, perhaps, some of the unranked players could have been ranked but never got around to doing so. The point is that we have a broad range of playing skills and the goal is to play. Winning is nice, but playing and maybe honing one’s skills or sharing skills with others in need, is also always a consideration, along with camaraderie and sportsmanship.

We thus consider it an opportunity to make new friends and become even more of a participant in the great community that constitutes Lake Arrowhead.

Feel free to come by and see for yourself.

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