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The Avondale Club: dreamy Victorian setting of the birth of the Cincy Masters. When you go to tournaments around the country for a few years (ok a lot of years in my case), inevitably there are a lot of people that you see repeatedly, both inside the tennis industry, and out. Sometimes you get lucky and make some friends. That’s been the Cincy tennis story for me personally. Our genius biomechanist Dr. Brian Gordon introduced me to Mike Kindred the first time I went. Mike is pretty much mister Cincy tennis in that he plays every day and knows everyone and I mean everyone that has anything to do with the sport in town. Later I met his friend Pam Martin, also an avid player, and her three great kids. Her daughter Tess was a championship high school player and Hailey was a star Ohio junior who competed on the ITF international circuit. Her son Logan is the only one who doesn’t play but he and I have something else in common-we are both avid fly fishermen. Logan even ties his own flies. He and Pam have been to my place near Mt. Lassen in the great California north country…