The NC Women’s Open Green league is a fairly competitive league. Much like the NCW 4.5 Red league, in order to succeed you need to have some depth in your lineup. It’s not enough to have a good court 1. You need to have a good 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6. You’ll see what I mean when you look at the scores between Midtown-Palatine and Midtown-Bannockburn. On court 1 MTB’s Sunatcha Breslow and Ashley Dombrow won the 1st set 6-1 but MTP’s Josie Croll and Laura Nerup stepped it up and fought hard to take it to a tie-breaker in the 2nd only to lose 7-6(5). On court 2, the 3 set match went to MTP’s Shannon Crowther and Wendy Gilmore over MTB’s Patti Charman and Lynne Sakanich 6-4, 6-7 (4?), 7-6 (5). As you can see by the scores, the match was more than close. On court 3, MTB’s Priscilla Ewaldz and Yupin Lerner gained some momentum after the 1st set tie-breaker to win 7-6, 6-3. On court 4, MTB’s Alison Bloom and Susan Heiser came back to win sets 2 and 3 after losing the 1st set, 1-6. They won sets 2 and 3 6-4, 6-1 over MTP’s Mary Etherington and Vicki Lorenzo. On court 5, like on court 3, MTP’s Kristin Lueken and Karen Morand gained some momentum after winning the 1st set 7-5, then 6-2. On court 6, MTB’s Sheila Bondoc and Pam Wallach won a close match against MTP’s Linda Baker and Laurie Gray 6-4, 6-3. Midtown-Bannockburn won 4-2 over Midtown-Palatine.