Those of you readers who participate in USTA tennis may or may not know that the new ratings came out this week. This year was quite a shocker for many of us in the tennis world.
There was a huge surge of people who got bumped up a notch and the clubs are buzzing.
Seriously.
I keep expecting Jeff Probst to walk out to start tribal council.
The e-mails are flying, my phone is ringing, and secret lunch meetings are being arranged.
All the team captains are trying to secure the best players. There is a lot of whispering going on.
Last year I played on a team full of amazingly nice women. The only catch was, I could only play singles.
One of my best friends called me and made me an offer I feel I can't refuse. She said if I go back to her team, (which I played on years ago) I can play doubles with two of my favorite doubles partners (who I happen to be good friends with) and play singles too. She's co-captain of the team, so she said I can help her make the lineups for each match. If this is true, it's awesome.
The hard part? Saying goodbye to my old team, full of really sweet ladies, where I am low man on the totem pole into a perfect situation for me, but with a team captain who is not well liked in the ladies tennis world.
Did you follow that?
Tennis is easy.
Tennis politics? THAT will kill you.
There was a huge surge of people who got bumped up a notch and the clubs are buzzing.
Seriously.
I keep expecting Jeff Probst to walk out to start tribal council.
The e-mails are flying, my phone is ringing, and secret lunch meetings are being arranged.
All the team captains are trying to secure the best players. There is a lot of whispering going on.
Last year I played on a team full of amazingly nice women. The only catch was, I could only play singles.
One of my best friends called me and made me an offer I feel I can't refuse. She said if I go back to her team, (which I played on years ago) I can play doubles with two of my favorite doubles partners (who I happen to be good friends with) and play singles too. She's co-captain of the team, so she said I can help her make the lineups for each match. If this is true, it's awesome.
The hard part? Saying goodbye to my old team, full of really sweet ladies, where I am low man on the totem pole into a perfect situation for me, but with a team captain who is not well liked in the ladies tennis world.
Did you follow that?
Tennis is easy.
Tennis politics? THAT will kill you.