Just played in the Haddon Tomes, the member-guest court tennis tournament at Tuxedo. The theme was Prohibition. (Last couple of years have been Eighties, Seventies and masquerade.) There were a lot of fedoras and spats and flapper dresses and secret passwords.

The event, just a decade old, has really grown and now is so well-subscribed (twenty teams, each with three matches guaranteed) that the last scheduled match on Friday—scheduled—was for 12:45am. It went on court around then and finished at 1:30am. (There was even a spectator, a loyal plus-one as the English pro said.) The 12:00am match in fact involved a team that also was scheduled to play at 8:30am the following morning; they were a bit lucky in that, as the first match of the morning was at 7:00am.

It all reminded me of the old Atlantic Coast Championships, the squash singles tournament, where they also scheduled matches into the night. In fact matches were scheduled all night on Friday, with full galleries and a lot of late-night hilarity.

The ACC event is still being played—in fact, the 2011 event is this weekend, at the Greate Bay Racquet & Fitness Club. From the schedule, though, it appears that Friday’s matches at the ACC end at 7:00pm.