Here is a request to post this from the reader. If anybody wants to participate, feel free. I don't know much about it but feel free to discuss it or sign up.
The DFW National School will take place on February 7th and 8th at Grapevine High School (3223 Mustang Drive, Grapevine, TX).
Saturday's schedule includes the USTA course for officials with 3+ years of experience (8 am to noon). After lunch (on your own), the ITA (1:00 to 3:00) and Referee classes (3:00 to 5:00) will take place.
Sunday's USTA class (8 am to noon)
is for officials with less than 3 years of experience. There will also
be a Roving 101 class for officials who have not taken it.
YOU MUST BRING HARD COPIES OF YOUR TEST SCORES! THESE PAGES WILL BE COLLECTED WHEN YOU SIGN IN.
Texas officials should register for the appropriate classes at http://www.tx10isofficials.
How to become a USTA Official:
2015 Texas USTA School List:
Thanks, ML. I thought this would be useful information if any of you have high school or college aged kids that may be interested, or you thought you could do a better job at officiating. For me, it was a way to give back to the tennis community at the local level. There is no up front cost to take the test, nor is anyone obligated to officiate once they pass the test. If you have questions I would be glad to try and answer or I would be glad to forward to the appropriate persons. See you on the Court. Ramon
ReplyDeleteThanks Ramon! Btw who won Zachary asterisk match versus. Glasgow/tiner. No scores posted.
ReplyDeleteThe Mikes won. Pretty sure you wouldn't ask unless you were on the court so you should know.
DeleteKelly and zak won. They now play Kingsley and Chavez. Let's see if Chavez can put his loss at tri level finals to Kelly behind him and get revenge on that bas*ard!!!
ReplyDeleteNo way they beat Chavez and Kingsley. You heard it here first!
DeleteIf you are basing your pick on ability or level that is fine. Problem is you have to decide does Kelley want to win or lose. It is impossible to get in his pea size brain to decide if he will try to win, make it close and just lose or get blown out. Even Vegas won't touch his matches, bec all results are fixed
DeleteTrying to win these matches in breakers will come back to haunt him. He has only played 3 tournaments in 10 years. In each one of those on tennis link he has played a breaker except for one. 24 matches, 18 breakers. One tourney he had 3 matches go to two breakers in each match. What a jOke!
DeleteAre they playing 50's or 4.5's!
ReplyDeleteJust playing with themselves.
DeleteNo way they beat Hunyh and Tran. You heard it here first!
DeleteWay
DeleteIf he try's to go to a breaker w Kingsley and Cha Cha Chavez he will lose!!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like Kelly got a lot of mixed practice this weekend
DeleteSee he lost to a guy with a 4.0 partner. Guess Huynh is better than Kelley.
DeleteIt was an 8.5 final
DeleteGuess Tran better than zakry.
DeleteAnybOdy better than Kelley when ratings are on the line!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of mixed. Go look at Kelley's mixed score today and the last 3 weeks. In 4 matches he has lost 3 games. Funny how he sux and then he wins 0 and 0
ReplyDeleteI am friends of the green hill opponents Kelley beat 0 and 0. It is disrespectful and ridiculous to not give them a few games. I will be writing a letter to the DTA. They are good players and nice people.
DeleteIf that match was played w no ratings involved . As much as I despise Kelley, that match would have been over in 10 minutes. Kelly doesn't enter tourneys to win. Hun and Tran solid though and a win is a win. I watched it , Kelley no doubt has mastered the art of just missing and could win an academy award doing so. Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteAlong with writing a letter I would employ a strategy of getting better players or not playing at all on the off chance you might draw him in the lineup. Arguably the best mixed player around it might be wise to find some ringers of your own or better yet, ask him to play for your team. BTW, not sure a letter will do. I would go there in person and demand he be fined and suspended.
ReplyDeleteEveryone complains when he wins big and complains if he tanks a few matches. Go look at all of the SpringPark mixed teams. 7.0 and 8.0. Everyone is winning sets at love. Maybe other teams just need to practice.
ReplyDeletePractice won't be enough. Any team that improves gets bumped up long before they're good enough to beat SP. What's needed are players willing to practice AND dump matches in order to stay at level or move down.
DeleteThere are plenty of teams in Dallas that can beat SP 7.0 and 8.0, they're just not allowed to play at that level. There is a reason SP doesn't have a 9.0 team.
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ReplyDeleteWe didn't think about 9.0. We should have had a team. We will in the summer. 7.0 just kind of happened after talking to a few of the guys that went to nationals last year. They needed 2 or 3 more teams to fill out a line up and we happened to come up with some.
ReplyDeleteAnd as far as practice, we had 8 teams in Wednesday at noon. We have 6 teams saturday at 8:00am.