Monday, October 27, 2014

Weekly Update and Nationals Wrap



Not a lot to report in 4.5 this week but the calendar is getting closer to some interesting matchups.  There’s just not a lot to report in 4.5 at all this fall because thus far the flights have pretty much gone to form.
Flight A has Rossouw and Way in the driver’s seat.  Both are undefeated, everyone else has at least two losses, and except for playing each other at season end the both have easy finishing schedules.
Flight B also has Rossouw on top and Harlee in second as soon as he finishes his match with Stonebridge.  The Rossouw/Harlee match was a 3-2 final with Rossouw’s bunch winning two of two third set tie breakers, so a tight finish between these two.
Flight C is a bit more interesting with every team having already taken at least one loss.  Reiman leads the pack with one loss but has two loss Bogle to finish.  Warren’s crew has clawed their way back into a likely second place finish.  They have two losses but they are done.  Bogle owns the head-to-head tie breaker over Warren so it will all come down to the Reiman match for a playoff birth.

In 4.0, things are starting to shake out a bit. 
Flight A is a three horse race between Parrish, McHugh and Browning.  Parrish has three matches left with two solid teams down the stretch.  Eldorado has the most favorable finishing schedule of the three.  I still think McHugh has the best team and if the fall played out third sets instead of having tie breakers they’d be in the lead.  As it is, they finish with two good teams and could be on the outside looking in if they aren’t careful.
Flight B has Sisk with a resurgence of sorts.  Powered by some of his 4.5 bump downs they are undefeated.  Bartlett and Noel are both tied at one loss and they square off next weekend.  The winner should be in the playoffs.
Flight C should be done.  Ratcliffe has no losses with only one match left.  Peterson has one loss with two left but everyone else already has three losses.  These two are in unless Peterson forgets to show up the next two weeks.
Flight D, well, what to say.  Jayaram and McIntosh are in the lead with one loss each but they play each other next week so one of them will be log jammed in the two loss category soon.  Meyers, Reifsnyder and Jenison are still in the hunt with two losses.  I’m not sure any of these teams make the playoffs in another flight.

18s Nationals Wrap Up – and the winners were? 

5.5/Open had the team from Austin winning it all over Northern California.  I’ve never seen so many 7s on a roster as some of these Open teams had.  Austin went 12-3 for the weekend against some pretty stiff competition.

In my favorite result, 5.0 had Southern beating Southern in the final with Northern and Intermountain both making the semis.  I’ve heard the ALTA league in Atlanta has some unbelievable high end talent but, needless to say, the boys in the Southern section seems to know how to play high end tennis.

In 4.5, Pacific Northwest took a tight win over Southern, with the boys from Amarillo and Caribbean both in the semis.  For those of you who wondered how Logan Powell would fair at nationals, he did quite well.  He went 6-0 in singles and all four sets on Sunday were 6-1.

At 4.0, Mr. Freeman was oh so close to that elusive national title, dropping a close final to Southern California.  It’s an impressive effort for any team to make it that far and they did it short handed in singles.  Florida and Middle States were both in the semis.

At the recently completed 3.5 event, it was Northern California over Caribbean, with Pacific Northwest and Southern California in the semis.  At 3.0 it was Texas over Northern California, with Pacific Northwest and Eastern in the semis.  And at 2.5, yes they have this, it was Pacific Northwest over Northern California, with Florida and Eastern in the semis.

From 5.0 to 2.5, with 4 points for a win, 3 for a second and 2 for a semi, the BIGGEST CHEATER AWARD goes to - PACIFIC NORTHWEST with a total of 12 points.

Southern and Northern California tied for second with 10 points.  Texas just missed the medal stand with 9 points.  Southern California had 6 points and Caribbean had 5 points.  Tied at 4 points each were Florida and Eastern.  Honorable mention with 2 points each were Northern, Intermountain and Middle States.


26 comments:

  1. When does the year end ratings come out.

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  2. Great write up Murray. Thanks for all of your efforts!!

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  3. When are fall playoffs?

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  4. 5.0 prob more interesting than anything else. 3 way tie still.

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  5. interesting at 5.0 T-Bar has two underrated players in Nash who played at TCU, under 30 y.o. still and DelaFuente who was an All-American at Trinity which should also be a 5.5, but hey its only 5.0.

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  6. 40s 3.5 and 4.5 Nats are this weekend.

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  7. does year end ratings come out before the fall playoffs

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    1. Depends. When are fall playoffs?

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    2. Nov 21-23. YE Ratings are after playoffs.

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  8. I see the women get to play 40s with mid-season ratings. I thought the USTA was opposed to that? Funny, as Austin is doing it as I wrote this. The DTA is so full of it.

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    1. Nothing new. I was told the women get the preferential treatment due to TCD.

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    2. You're not a real player unless you're playing TCD

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    3. Proud to say I am not a real player.

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  9. 4.5 update - not a lot of update here. And the year end clashes we were looking forward to had some good, close play but for the most part the playoff spots were already locked up before they mattered.
    Flight A is Rossouw and Way, as we expected. They still play each other but both have guaranteed their playoff spots.
    Flight B is Rossouw and Harllee, as we expected, and this one is done.
    Flight C had a little more drama, but in the end it is Reiman and Warren, again as expected.
    Not a lot of flight play upsets but the playoffs do shape up to be very exciting. Nice job by the DTA of having these flights very well balanced.

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  10. A little more give and take at 4.0 but so far its still not too surprising.
    Flight A is McKinney/Parish and either El Dorado/Browning or Canyon Creek/McHugh. ED and CC are tied on win-loss and lines but CC holds the head-to-head tie breaker. Both end with potentially good matches.
    Flight B is GTC/Sisk and Fretz/Noel in the playoffs. Neither can be caught.
    Flight C is Huffines/Ratcliffe and probably McKinney/Peterson. McKinney has one to post and one to play and only needs to win one.
    Flight D is Huffines/McIntosh and its still a three horse race for second with all of them having two losses. Fretz/Jayaram, Hackberry/Myers and Canyon Creek/Jenison are all still in the hunt. Jayaram has a healthy line lead, beat CC but lost to HB. Hackberry and Canyon Creek should both win pretty easy season ending matches so it is Fretz's playoff spot to lose. Interestingly, Fretz/Jayaram was in a similar situation last spring and lost its last two matches to miss the playoffs.

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    1. What about 3.5?

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    2. 4.0 tankers of the week are Newman, Wilson, Clark and Brown. Keep up the stellar tennis boys!

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  11. Last weekend for the 3.5s to come through. 18s and 40s both lost in flight play but 55s play this weekend. There's your update.

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    1. What about women's 3.5 and 4.0?

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  12. So Noeh is still on here posting shit? That should help him get on a ream next year.

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  13. The Houstin blog has a comment saying Freeman has a dirty tri-level player. Says he has an old rating and now has a new rating. Name is Paul Robinson and then changed his middle initial just a bit.

    Need to look into it. Guess that is why they kick our ass.

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    1. Also, his 4.0s don't look as strong as expected.

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  14. Murray, how about a year end wrap up and review of the Pro Tour?

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