Flight I
Waco, Dallas, Houston and CC
Flight II
SA, Austin, Noho and Valley
Flight III
Houston, FW, QT team and Dallas
I would list my expertise here but I have none. I will have some for 2009 but until then Racer X, Corey and AR Hacker, any thoughts???
Flight I
ReplyDeleteWaco, Dallas, Houston and CC
Flight II
SA, Austin, Noho and Valley
Flight III
Houston, FW, QT team and Dallas
Group II is by far the toughest division. NOHO has a strong team, Austin rebuilt from last year, Valley will be tough, and SA has a few former 5.0's on the team.
Flight I and III depend on where the Wild Card teams are placed. Who ever gets into Flight III would have a better shot honestly.
Flight I has a dangerous CC team with their young gun ringer and another singles player who did not lose last year at sectionals.
SF:
1st Place Hou or Dallas v. Valley (II)
Austin (II 2nd Place) v. 1st Place Dallas/Houston
ooops just saw how they will divide the draw for SF.
ReplyDeleteFlip Flop Austin and Valley
As Flight I winner gets Top 2nd Place team.
Finals:
Dallas v. Valley
The Fort Worth team returns the majority of the players that made the finals two years ago so I'm not sure Flight III is worse than Flight I. Flight II however does appear to be the "group of death". Therefore it would seem they would beat up on each other and thus not let the second place team come from that flight. Therefore give me the 1st Dallas team, the 1st Houston team, NOHO to win their flights with FW squeaking in as the wildcard. I may change that wildcard depending on which way the Dallas/Houston split goes. All I really know is there is going to be some serious tennis going on that weekend that will be worth watching for sure.
ReplyDeleteFTW is definately a sleeper, but sure their guns are big enough. Very disappoiting that FTW did not get a WC team because IMO Southlake is just as strong as Flying Eagles.
ReplyDeleteThe main problem seems to be a lack of stud singles players to hang with the Houston and Dallas teams that will be in the group. Doubles are always a toss-up.
Not disrespecting FTW, but their guns are not quite strong enough, but I would not be surprised to see FTW in the SF either.
Will need big matches from Huffman and Terefe for sure and then sneak out some doubles matches.
new ar hacker.... you underestimate the FW singles duo of Lawrence Chan and Huffman. They are among the top duo in the state. FW may be the team to beat. They are very solid 1-3 in doubles too. I would be shocked if they don't make the final 4. This is the same team that made the final 2 two years ago and they added some strong pieces since that time. Gear up to beat this team.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I underestimate the rest of the state, but FW has plenty of singles strength. Chan rarely breaks a sweat in 4.5 singles (I think he only avoids the bump up due to MXD matches) and Huffman is plenty good. However, I guess there's no guarantee that Chan will make the trip down.
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See you in Abilene Mr. Kern. It should be a great weekend of tennis.
ReplyDeleteThe newly retooled Austin team from Last years Nationals team will be in the semifinals as the winner of flight 2. They kept the best players that did not get bumped up last year and they have half a dozen former 5.0's added to that group. Some played Sectionals in 5.0 2 years ago.
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Mr. Leach, I look forward to seeing you in Abilene. For the record I'm playing number 5 singles both times we play you so take it easy on that line. I don't want to get too embarassed.
ReplyDeleteAs far as pool 2...
According to the Austin blog, Wild is going to be missing a couple of people (could be a smoke screen) and things are going nuts in Houston. So right now I'm leaning towards Valley but who knows who will actually show up. I'm getting very confused.
As far as pool 3...
With the great Leach taking a team through the QT things could be much tougher in that pool than people may think.
No matter what, it will be a lot of fun to come watch.
so it is nice to know that Austin kept their Captain and their "2" best remaining players from last years Nationals team.
ReplyDeleteIf they have more than 3 players from last then there is a serious issue.
;)
Group II is interesting, I would probably place money on Valley since they have most of the players from the Nat'l team 5-6 years ago.
I'm not really looking this far ahead. Besides Branch I think any of the other three teams could make it to Sectionals. If we make it through the qualifying we would have to play both first place teams in the same day on Saturday so not the greatest draw for my team. I guess they wanted to save the matchup between the two first-place teams for Sunday.
ReplyDeleteDoes Tyler not have a regular season? How does Chris's team go straight to a QT? What did these teams do to get in the QT? Is it because there are so few teams in these cities?
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of the predictions, however everyone has overlooked San Antonio. I am shocked anyone would put the Valley and Austin ahead of SA. These guys are the best sandbaggers and nobody seems to notice. Whomever said Austin has a shot does not have any contacts in Austin. They will not have any of their singles players at sectionals and only have one strong doubles team. Valley has a shot to the semis but San Antonio will wipe them out. Believe me, I am not a fan just providing the facts. SA will be will win sectionals.
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