Monday, February 29, 2016

Old Guy Season Starts to Wind Down

40s Results

4.5 Flight A – SpringPark/Sweeney continues to run the difficult gauntlet that is Flight A.  They have a tough match left against Lifetime/Arcaria.  They should do no worse than a 7-1 finish and make the playoffs.  While Lifetime is in second, they have the match against SpringPark and another tough finish against TBar.   They can only lose one of those if they’re going to stay in the hunt.  Greenhill/Rossouw has a layup against LB Houston but a tough match left against Brookhaven/Harllee.  Brookhaven is the wild card.  If they pull off a win against Greenhill and Lifetime loses down the stretch, Brookhaven should pass both of them for second.  Much to still be decided in this tough flight.

4.5 Flight B – In what has become an old tune at this point, JCC/Reiman has just about wrapped up this flight.  They still have a match left against Gleneagles but with a one match lead in the loss column and a six line lead to date, they should be able to close this flight out.  More interesting was Greenhill/Rossouw’s loss to Gleneagles yesterday.  The disconcerting news is Gleneagles won all three of their lines pretty easily.  The good news is Joe Vu dropped a 6-1, 6-0 beat down on Chris Cully so you’ve got something to work with there.

4.0 Flight A – McKinney/Peterson-Frick have punched their ticket to the playoffs.  Greenhill/Kayser has likely punched theirs as well and should even finish as the flight leader.  They have one makeup match not yet posted against last place Brookhaven/Taragioll.  If Greenhill wins at least 4 lines they end up as the flight leader.  Nice third place finish by Lakes/Reifsnyder.

4.0 Flight B – Flight winner Huffines/Clark and Brookhaven/Bartlett will advance from this flight.  All matches are played so this one is in the books.  McKinney/Oh finishing third at 5-2 was an eye opener in this flight.  They were only three lines behind Brookhaven for third.  Brookhaven finished the last two matches going 10-0 while McKinney finished a respectable 7-3, but that was the difference.  And all that after McKinney had beaten Brookhaven 4-1.

55s Results
9.0 – With only six teams I imagine the flight winner goes straight to sectionals.  That would be Brookhaven/Goswami.  They finished as the only undefeated team in the flight with Wagon Wheel/Gradick two back in the loss column.  Oak Creek/Beckner-Sweeney finished a distant third.

8.0 – My apologies but I’m not certain on the format for 55s playoffs.  I believe it’s a three team event where 2 plays 3 and the winner plays 1.  In an incredibly tight race, SpringPark/Blesi takes the #1 spot.  Tied with Brookhaven/Bartlett at 7-1, 19-5, SpringPark wins the flight by virtue of its 2-1 match win over Brookhaven down the stretch.  Brookhaven will now play the first playoff match against Greenhill/Kayser.  Similarly, Greenhill was tied with Canyon Creek/Rainwater at 6-2 but edged them out by one line.

 

29 comments:

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    1. Just wondring how 7.0 won by Rane Alzuro?

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    2. Alzuro outsmart great Alan. Haha. Alzuro new super mix captain.

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  2. Alzuro will beat Alan's 7.0 team again and Alan won't play

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  3. Why should he play? Alan best 7.0 player on the planet and that match is meaningless. He had no help this year. He and his partner dominated. Looks like Pearson and partner had a terrible loss so let's tap the brakes on all his hype. Solid 4.0 and nothing more and people who screaming he out of level can now hush.

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  4. Thanks for your input Alan. Hard to claim your the best 7.0 player even in Dallas when you don't play the big matches or the best team.

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    1. How many 7.0 players live in Dallas. I don't know any. There may be some 6.5s playing for SMU or TCU.

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  5. They sure are missing zakry..
    He was the best player last year.

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  6. 8:36 is "Zacry". He trying to misspell his name to throw everyone off. Doug Malden best but was hurt all year

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    1. If mauldin so great why you keep Pearson this year and not mauldin? Alan cant win with no Kelly or no zakry

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    2. yes he lose in 7.0 and next week in 8.0
      that why Alan trying to get FW disqualified he know he cant beat them

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    3. 11:33 is def "Zacry" again

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    4. Mauldin must be hurt again this year. He's 2-4 in men's 4.0 and 0-3 in 7.0 mixed.

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  7. 8:54 "Zacry" at it again.

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    1. Wow, cat fight. That may be zacry but it still sounds like a fair question that won't get answered.

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  8. Can we get back to men's tennis? Rossouw will have a huge playoff advantage if he has half the teams. I thought you couldn't captain two teams in the same playoffs.

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  9. Of course he will. At some point after years and years if having 8-10 teams a year you will eventually make a run. If he wants to get to nationals he should put Kelley on the team. Every time I look Kelley either just went to or headed to another national event. Suspended from Dsllas all he does is play in FW and takes the 8,0 team to nationals and then plays trilevel and goes again. Oh yeah, I forgot. Russouw would never have a tanker on his team my bad. Unfortunately he will have to at some point, or even better just captain 5 teams in a league and your chances are pretty good. Perennial bridesmaid.

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    1. Kelley going to nationals is not impressive. If he would play his level, 5.0, and have a winning record in 5.0 league like countless players in our area, then that would be more impressive.

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  10. Alan/Mike need to take their lover's quarrel elsewhere. They are acting like a teenage breakup.

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    1. They both think no one can live without them.
      Kelly seems to be doing fine. SP is a mixed power when they have Kelly. Looks like Fort Worth is a mixed power with him too.

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  11. It's not Alan and Zacry. I play at Springpark and Alan's on court everyday from 8:30-1:00. I don't think he's checking the blog during a lesson, much less posting.

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    1. I don't know what Alan's works schedule was today was and clearly you don't either since you say he's on the court every day instead of today. But if you are really trying to say that Zacry isn't on here posting you are crazy.

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  12. Did Greenhill and Brookhaven get a pass from the DTA on the 7 day rule to get matches played and reported? It's been two weeks of warm, sunny weather.

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  13. Yo u didn't get the memo. Rules don't apply to Greenhill and Brookhaven.

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  14. Greenhill is now brookhavens sister club. If you want a team with Brookhaven players and non members, you play out if Greenhill.

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  15. Lifetime will likely drop from 2nd place since good chance of losing last 2 matches. Rossouw should get 2nd playoff spot in A flight to join Sweeney in playoffs and put a beating on the flight B teams.

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  16. Wait a minute, Rene didn't win yet..and if Spring Park beats Rene then the Clark team is in the mix. I'm pretty sure Spring Park will go all out

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