The Belle Epoque: Part 2

A rainbow over the club on the lake. In the early 70’s, I went to Zurich to study and when I finished my studies as an electrical engineer and started working, I joined TC Seeblick in Zurich. This was a club I played in for many years, before moving back to Lugano to play in my current club, TC Lido. The club is very nice, up on a hill overlooking the lake of Zurich (hence the name “Seeblick” which means “view on the lake” in German). It consists of a large clubhouse (no ramshacke affair like Lee Born’s Campo Marzio in Lugano), and 9 beautiful red clay courts. Whereas TC Campo Marzio (Click Here) was a one man show run by Lee Born, TC Seeblick was run with Germanic precision by a committee, and consisted of about 10 officers (president, vice president, in charge of interclub, in charge of social activities, in charge of court maintenance, in charge of the restaurant, etc.). The most prestigious office, of course, was that of president. So, let’s get into our time machine again, and we will visit TC Seeblick as it was in the 70’s on a sunny afternoon…. Hans The loud, cigar-smoking…