Port Washington

The Port Washington Tennis Academy (P.W.T.A.), E.T.A.'s giant Long Island rival: "Port Washington Academy is gargantuan, the Xerox Inc. of North American tennis academies, with over 300 students and 64 courts" (p. 217). The two schools meet in "this mammoth annual early-November thing between E.T.A. and P.W.T.A." that "will try to be the best out of 108" matches (p. 259), after which the losing academy "has to get up on tables at the buffet supper afterward and sing" (p. 259).