Doubles' Tournament.

A festive and fanfare atmosphere prevailed when the hands of the members of the True Bounce Tennis Academy clapped on the eve of the much awaited Doubles' Tournament in the Bangalore Games and Fitness Institute (BGFI) on Sunday, June 17th. Banners were erected, the courts were beautifully done and the paraphernalia of the game were made available on time, thanks to Murugan.

Though the draws were made on Friday morning, very few players were available for the matches to start on Saturday. Thus, the matches were started on Sunday.

The following are the teams:

Group A

A1 - Abhshek and Satish
A2 - Praveen and Prem
A3 - Gopal and Harveen
A4 - Jeffrey and Nithin
A5 - Aravind and Dr.Balliga
A6 - Neel and Suyog

Group B

B1 - Mitra and Vigyan
B2 - Sagar and Srinivas
B3 - Jagdeep and Sanjay
B4 - Mahesh and Mohan
B5 - Ben and Narendra
B6 - Hari and Tilak

Though the matches were organized on the first day with all the players being extremely cooperative, I was extremely disappointed at the chaotic mechanism of tracking the results, let alone the match scores. The results were so tracked that at any given point of time, one could not get the glimpse of the matches completed and the overall points tally of the different teams. So,I started thinking the best way to do this and finally recommended Murugan the format that I liked most. :-)

Also, currently, there is no mechanism by which one can know the detailed statistics of a given match, for instance, number of aces, unforced errors(long), etc. I am thinking on this too and suggest Murugan the best possible format to record these statistics at least for the semi-final and final matches. These detailed data would serve as some good measure of the team's abilities and skills. My vision is to have a web-based resource to gather all these information and allow the user to see the glimpse of the matches and also a drill-down views of them depicting all the detailed statistics of the individual matches. The time constraints for this year's tournament, I think, would not allow me to implement all my thoughts. Nonetheless, I would suggest Murugan the more user-friendly and effective way of managing the matches' information from next year, the technology way! :-)