Port Washington meet — his one win, his vanished mic

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texture · 6-7 Nov YDAU

When: 6 November YDAU (the P.W.T.A. away meet) into the small hours of 7 November (the buses stop at Denny's ~0030 on getting in)
What: At the Port Washington meet Troeltsch loses his singles (paired in the loss-column with Coyle) but then rallies — "conspicuously energized" — to win the 18-A #2 doubles with Schacht, his lifelong partner: his one competitive high point in the book. In a pointed peer-verdict on the broadcasting habit, his disconnected microphone vanishes from his gear bag during post-doubles showers. On the warm bus home he recaps the day's highlights for an imaginary subscription audience, speaking into his fist, his left eye ominously nystagmic (a stimulant tell).