No, it's not an action shot. I'm stuck!
In case you’re interested, next Friday and Saturday the 40s
playoffs will be held at Brookhaven Country Club. The teams looked close enough during the
regular season that some of these matches should be pretty good and just one or
two players missing could be the difference.
I think one of the interesting storylines will be how the
mini-me flight does versus the big flight in 4.5. I don’t expect a lot of blowouts but with all
the discussion we had on the fairness issue, it will be interesting to see how
they fare.
The 4.5s begin the festivities at Brookhaven with the flag
dropping on 6:00pm matches. We’ll have
SpringPark/Sweeney versus Greenhill Red/Rossouw and JCC/Reiman versus Greenhill
Blue/Rossouw. Red was flight B, the
small flight with JCC. They tee off
again at 9:00am on Saturday with Springpark and JCC trading Greenhill opponents. The last match will kick off in the 1:00pm slot
with SpringPark versus JCC and the Greenhill border war. We can think all we want about which flight
was better and whether it was all done in the most equitable fashion, but we’re going
to find out a lot more in 7 or 8 days.
On the 4.0 front, they have the first pitch at 8:00pm next
Friday with Huffines/Clark versus McKinney/Peterson and Greenhill/Kayser versus
Brookhaven/Bartlett. They regroup for an
11:00am tip off on Saturday with Huffines versus Brookhaven and Greenhill
versus McKinney. The final stone will be
delivered beginning at 3:00pm with Huffines versus Greenhill and Brookhaven
versus McKinney. Ok, ok, I ran out of
sports analogies so I had to go to curling.
Say what you will about 40s but it’s a pretty evenly matched
affair and should be fun to watch. Good
luck to all the participants.
And don't forget, there's no time off. 40s playoffs are April 1-2 and the 18s season openers start the very next weekend. So enjoy your Easter weekend and get ready for more tennis. I'll recap the 40s winners after the tourney and start scouting the 18s rosters after that.
ReplyDeleteI'll start the 18s for you. There's a team from San Antonio called Buster Ashes, who are tearing up the San Antonio league. They already dominated the San Antonio Major Zone, and are doing it again this weekend at Houston. Gotta be early season favorites at Sectionals.
DeleteWell, rumor is Kelley may be added to a roster of a playoff caliber team and he will be a tough out. Not sure he even cares too bec he skipped his last men's nationals but will be interesting. Go AUSTIN!
Deleterussoh should have down a red, white, blue, green and yellow team. Gotta figure one of those advances. Mathematic probability eventually gets him a win at cities
ReplyDeleteRussoh will probably have their usual shenanigans. I'm going to go watch them play each other so they don't try any funny business.
ReplyDeleteThose guys aren't good enough for shenanigans
ReplyDeleteObviously, no one cares.
ReplyDeleteIll get it started. Mike Kelly is returning June 2.
ReplyDeleteand how soon before he starts to tank matches? June 3rd or 4th?
ReplyDeleteNo tanking, it will be mixed.
ReplyDeleteProb doesn't matter, he has played two leagues in FW last 6 months and both times he has gone to nationals. But yes I agree w 8:58, prob mixed and prob doesn't drop a match
ReplyDeleteI want to say good luck to all players this weekend especially the ones playing at their true level as they should be commended. Losing at cities the right way beats getting to nationals the wrong way ANY DAY!
DeleteSweeney will win 4.5+. Correia & Rich are a very solid 5.0 doubles line. Hill has done a great job managing his scores this season keeping him available to dominate one of the 4.5 lines. Moore and Lafarve are also 5.0 caliber players. Sprinkle in the perennially great 4.5s they have and they should coast this weekend.
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:39
Deleteyou must be a tanker as well! No one is "worrying about it". Just stating the obvious that fair play trumps frauds and tankers in a poker match. My team IS in the playoffs this weekend. THE RIGHT WAY!!
That is no April fools joke.
DeleteAnon 10:27
ReplyDeleteTHAT we can agree on. Funny thing is he still can't win
True, but if you desperately keep playing multiple teams in two cities you eventually have to win? You would think. 4 teams a league in Dallas and 4 in Fort Worth each year equals 8....and 10 Years of mediocrity means he had 80 chances. At some point dumb luck has to win out. Hey, at least he keeps telling his guys "this is the year!"
ReplyDeleteMake it 0 and 82
ReplyDeleteSpringPark's 4.5s were pretty dominant this weekend. A combined 10-0 over all teams Rossouw.
DeleteAnd you are surprised by that? When you basically haven't won anything in years how could you think it would go different?
ReplyDelete"guys, we will win 18's. Nobody keeps us from nats 83 times in a row!"
ReplyDeleteRoussouw's best 40s team is Fort Worth
ReplyDeleteDid he tell his Dallas guys that?
ReplyDeleteBy not winning Dallas playoffs, his Dallas players on both teams can play for FW making that team stronger
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