2024 Thalhimer Club Challenge!
2024 Thalhimer Club Challenge!2024 MTC TCC Warriors! Now that the adrenaline has worn off, it’s time to look back at what a weekend (plus Thursday night) it was!Thursday night party at Salisbury Country Club! A dedicated group of MTCers showed up to watch Dylan Sykes and Justin Cerny mop up at 5.0M and Diego Marti Vertiz and Allyson McKay fight the good fight at 5.0 MXD. We went into Friday with 3 points!! The full show begins on Friday!We got off to a slow start with the 3.0 crew pulling in 5.0 points (should have been 7.0 as Jimmy Biringer and Allie Hannon put the hammer down in straight sets, but the bottom feeders at Dominion got them DQ’ed due to a clerical issue with our roster!), the 3.5 crew pulling in 7.0 points, the 4.0 crew in at 6.5 points, and the 4.5 crew in at 6.0 points. Of special note were:Jen Shaffer and Amanda Mayhew sending a message with a 6-1, 6-0 smack down of the ACAC team at 3.0 W1, Noelle Crews and Kate Laroche winning at 3.5 W2, Tracy Marks and Amy Vela winning at 3.5 MXD, Karen Budlong and Nancy Pitts winning at 4.0 W1, and Fahim Rahman (doubling up after his 4.0 M’s match) and Lindsey Hardage (doubling up after her 4.0 W’s match) both “playing up” and bringing home a win at 4.5 MXD. Fahim and Gianni Snidle — in their first TCC appearance ever — lost in a third set 10 point TB at 4.0 M2 to bring home 1.5 points! Of special note (and deep appreciation!) is the fact that we had multiple people doubling up during the day — with several actually tripling up because they also played in USTA Sectionals at MTC:Doubling up: Tracy, Karen, Nancy, Lindsey, Susan, A.J., FahimRolling up all the scores, we ended up with 27.5 points for Thursday/Friday MTC gets it in gear on Saturday! Saturday was a beautiful day for tennis at SCC and the MTC crew took full advantage of the weather!With everyone fired up to make the Dominion silver spoon crowd rue their Friday pettiness, the MTC crew took all four matches they had with Dominion — Grace Snead and Becca Lowe winning at 3.0 W2, Colin Keyser and Chris Geoghegan winning at 3.5 M1, Lindsey Hardage and Olena Turner totally dominating at 4.0 W2, and Karen Budlong and Nancy Pitts showing what’s what at 4.5 W2. The 3.0 crew stepped up by 1.5 points to 6.5 points, the 3.5 crew adding 0.5 point to come in at 7.5 points, the 4.0 crew also adding 0.5 point to come in at 7.0 points, the 4.5 crew stepping up by 1.5 points to come in at 7.5 points, and the 5.0 crew adding 0.5 point to come in at 3.5 points.In addition to the body slams applied to Dominion, Jen and Amanda made it two match wins in a row, beating Hermitage at 3.0 W1, Karen Budlong and Nancy Pitts beat ACAC at 4.0 W1, Doug Scammell and A.J. Mojaddidi brought it home against Hermitage at 4.5 M1, and Dylan and Diego put on a clinic against Burkwood at 5.0 M. Rolling up all of the scores, we ended up with 32 points for Saturday — a 4.5 point improvement over Thurs/Friday’s score!!Even with the great improvement on Saturday, we weren’t able to overcome our Friday total, so the final rack up for the clubs playing at SCC was:With Sunday being a reset with the top 6 clubs playing at Westwood and the bottom 6 at SCC, we found ourselves matched up with: Another great day for tennis at SCC on Sunday (overcast and pleasant temps!)The MTC crew shifted into an even higher gear on Sunday! The 3.0 crew stepped things up by a full 2.0 points over Saturday’s total, coming in at 8.5 points! The 3.5 crew was rock steady, coming in at 7.0 points, as was the 4.0 crew coming in at 7.5 points, and the 4.5 crew coming in at 7.0 points. The 5.0 M and MXD duo clicked on all cylinders winning both of their matches to bring home 4.0 points.Of special note:Jen and Amanda wrapped up a perfect 3-0 weekend with a victory over Woodlake at 3.0 W1. Blake Winner and Caleb Geoghegan broke the ice with a win over Raintree at 3.0 M2. Chary Yaddanapudi and Allie broke Dominion’s back in a 10 point TB at 3.0 MXD. Katie Shick and Olena Turner broke the ice with a win over Raintree at 3.5 W1. Lindsey and Susan Nothnagle ran over Dominion with a win at 4.0 W2. Fahim and Gianni got everything to click with a win over Woodlake at 4.0 M2. Fahim came back and teamed with Andrew Kristensen to bring home a tough fought win at 4.5 M2. Todd Kieling came in to team with Allyson and win against Willow Oaks at 4.5 MXD Dylan and Justin had the line from Woodlake what the number of the bus that hit them was with a dominating win at 5.0 M. Our 5.0 M trio of Dylan, Justin, and Diego had a perfect 3-0 weekend! Diego and Allyson closed out the night with a solid win over Willow Oaks at 5.0 MXDAlso of note was:Grace and Becca hanging tough and bringing in 1.5 points against a tough Hermitage line at 3.0 W2 Noelle and Kate lost a heartbreaker at 3.5 W2 against Woodlake to bring in 1.5 points Alex Feldman and Mark Jones battled to the end to bring in 1.5 against the Hermitage line at 3.5 M2 Rico Fuster and Laurie Miller withstood a barrage of high velocity serves from Raintree’s Male player to bring in 1.5 points at 4.0 MXDWhen the clay dust had settled, the scoreboard had us at 34(!) points, 2 full points higher than our Saturday total! Bravo! For those of you who are wondering, the CCV team just dominated play at Westwood on Sunday, racking up 40.5 points (!) to take this year’s TCC title. Westwood came in a distant second at 38 points, with ACAC in third with 35 points.In conclusion, thank you so very much for all of your hard work and dedication to this year’s TCC team! I hope you all had fun out on the courts and came away from the experience looking forward to the 2025 TCC experience. Please send me any thoughts you might have on what went right, what went wrong, and what improvements you believe we should put in place for next year’s TCC campaign. #NextYearStartsNowCheers Please check out the MTC Instagram and Facebook pages for a proverbial flood of pics and videos from the weekend curated by Jessica Bauer!!   Midlothian Tennis Club, 3650 Brandermill Parkway, Midlothian, VA 23112 Summer hours are in effect Mon-Fri: 8:00AM to 8:30PM Weekends: 8:00AM to 5:30PM Reach us at:804.763.6006 info@midlothiantennis.com |