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Sarah:
What a mess this is. I need your advice on what I should do. I was told that the only way that I can play on the Rice team is to either play with a 3.5 man or not to play on my Tuesday night league. Bill tells me that there are no 3.5 men available to add to our roster. Is that true? This is really a difficult choice for me because I really enjoy playing on the Tuesday night team and i still feel that we have a chance to advance further. What do you think I should do? Carol St. Clair EB 3889 713-853-3989 (Phone) 713-646-3393 (Fax) carol.st.clair@enron.com LOUDERDUCK@aol.com 06/07/2001 01:41 PM To: <Carol.St.Clair@enron.com< cc: Subject: Re: Misc Hi Carol--I bet your ears have been burning for a couple of days! This is the part of tennis that I really don't like. I've had numerous email conversations with the person who originated the email to Cheryl Hultquist. Her original email to Cheryl was meant to be an inquiry, not a protest. One of her concerns was that, if our team did make it to a play-off situation, and it was determined at that time that you should be a 4.5, then we would have to forfeit all games that you played in for the entire season. This evidently happened to her team two years ago. (I think she's rationalizing after-the-fact.) You probably know that this person--that lodged the "protest"--is Betsie Hollis. She's my women's team captain. I've called her on the carpet about this...and let her know that by trying to hurt Bill Hunt's team, she is hurting me, too. She did try to withdraw her "protest," but Cheryl had evidently already taken action. There are so many people out there that are mis-ranked. The fellow playing with Kelly last Sunday should not be a 3.5...the woman we played against should not be a 3.5...Elise Shepherd should not be a 4.5...and on and on. I have heard through Roger White--Rice U's womens coach and a USTA verifier--that they are slowly trying to rectify mis-rankings by looking more closely at league and tournament results. I think you may be the first casualty of this endeavor. Bill Hunt has all sorts of counter-arguments. He had Cheryl's approval to play you in mixed at 4.0. Maybe if we promise to play you with our weaker 4.0 men--who are borderline 3.5 material--they'd let it pass. Who knows. If we are going to lose you--and Chris after this week--we're going to be pretty weak, not to mention demoralized. After all, we're all just trying to have some fun on the tennis court. Speaking of which, this Sunday is Chris' last match before his big move to North Carolina. We're out at Lee LeClear. I don't remember if you or Bill are scheduled to play, but please join us for a little send-off celebration after the match if you can. --sarah
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