President’s Letter

from Net News March/April 2020

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Let’s Keep Our Matches Fun

With ALTA’s winter league season winding down, we are all looking forward to the spring ALTA season and better tennis weather. ALTA has such a great team

of knowledgeable volunteers who help captains and players

resolve issues and are available to answer questions. ALTA’s

coordinators, overall coordinators, and league vice presidents

want to make your season enjoyable and fun. Please let your

coordinator know if you have questions or need any guidance

with a rule or an issue, as they are there to help you.

We all want a fun, competitive season, where we meet

new acquaintances and leave the courts with a positive

attitude and the ability to tackle the rest of the day. There

is nothing worse than a bad day at the courts because of a

player’s display of bad sportsmanship. It seems to ruin our

day and maybe the next day, too! Bad line calls, whether

intentional or not, are frustrating and somewhat unavoidable

as ALTA matches are not officiated. However, we must pay

attention to our own responses to these situations so as not

to elevate the problems. With issues such as rain delays, lets,

rule interpretations, bad line calls, and traffic, we all need to

remember that these issues also could happen to any of us.

One of my own personal “rules” I try to always remember is:

How would I want to be treated? I know that several of us have

experienced unpleasantness on the court, and it’s always interesting to me how the saying of “what goes around,

comes around” is applied so often before, during, and after

tennis matches. Tennis is a fun game. There is nothing better

than a great tennis match, laughing, having fun, and great

points. A fun match makes it a lot easier to lose as well!

ALTA volunteers love to hear the stories of good

sportsmanship; a match where a player(s) was lost or caught

in traffic and arrived past the 20-minute default time, and

the opponents play the match regardless of the late start.

Who wants to “win” (not really) a match by taking a default?

ALTA, with 70,000+ members, must follow the rules in place,

or there would be chaos. There have been many times the

enforcement of the rule(s) has been a frustration to many

a volunteer. If a player’s intentions revolve around good

sportsmanship, matches will not become contentious, and

points will be won on the court (not on paper).

Ask your new neighbors to join your team. What a great

way to meet new friends, to socialize while exercising and

having fun! So, here’s to a fun spring tennis season with great

competition, great friends, new friends, refreshments, and

most of all — great ALTA tennis!

Sandy Depa, 2020 ALTA President

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