Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Ocean Resorts Tennis

It's another tennis season at Ocean Resorts in Florida. This is our 3rd season here and we keep coming back because we love it here!

Tennis is one of our favorite activities in this very active tennis community.

We are on the Traveling Tennis Team. Competing against other parks in the area gives us a "home" team feeling in our travels across the country. Mixed doubles, mens doubles and womens doubles are played. Joni has won all her women's doubles matches with her partner, Jean (shown). Delton has has won one and lost won.



Also, we compete in many tournaments within Ocean Resorts, playing with and against our own tennis players. Joni and Bob (shown) won the Ocean Resorts Mixed Doubles tournament. It was a 2 day tournament, with the finals being held on a Sunday afternoon. Partners were chosen at random.






Shown are pictures from our tennis competitions. Group pictures are taken after each match, win or lose. Also see Delton keeping the crowd aware of the score during his match.
Joni is thrilled that Delton has taken up her favorite sport. AND he's getting pretty darn good too.



The court surface is different from most you see around the country. It is an artificial carpet like surface with TONS of sand spread on top. It creates a surface that is easy on the joints and slows the ball down a bit. We love this surface. It's similar to playing on clay courts as we slide
over the surface during play.