Thursday, May 29, 2008

This Week's Stuff

There's a huge match in 5.0 this week as the Met plays host to Lost Forest. The Met still has a slight lead in the division standings, but Lost Forest's roster continues to improve and they have to be considered the favorite to win the guaranteed slot at Sectionals. Hernan continues to add talent. Last week saw the addition of Edwin Donoso, and more additions are always a possibility. Even with a loss tonight, it's still a possibility that the Met could get a second slot at Sectionals in 5.0.

As usual, there's a dearth of interesting matchups in 4.5. The three huge matchups of the season (Kingwood-Hurricanes) are at the back end of the schedule, but the truly meaningful matches are those that will help decide the second place spots and will earn teams a trip to the playoffs. I misread the schedule last week: THIS week features the matchup between Copperfield and The Jedi Knights. Both teams are solid all around but lack a truly dominant singles player to help them get a guaranteed win. That means this matchup should come down to the wire. Another 3-2 score is quite likely. I've not heard anything about John Kudrick's health...I know he was prepared to get back on the court a few weeks back but reinjured himself while "cross-training".

A stronger Sugar Creek probably needs to sweep all of their matches and will have their hands full with the Mob Squad tonight. However, Ken Douds has singles strength with Jason Cooney's return and the addition of collegian Samir Chiali.

In 4.0, Chancellor's seems to play a one loss team each week, and consistently swats them away like flies. Willow Fork was last week's victim, and this week they will play 4-1 Village Place. Chancellor's has surrendured just 3 lines all year, so the likelihood of their losing 3 tonight is very slim. Chancellor's and JCC are both undefeated with just three lines dropped on the season. They will match up next week in a match that will be good preparation for the level of play at city playoffs.

In Division III the top two teams match up as SAP tries to take down the Sienna Topspinners. Sienna spanked SAO 4-1 in their first matchup and would seem to be the underdog. SAP's Aaron Greene may be the best 3.5 rated player in the city. With a win over Eddie Perdomo earlier this year, he'd be an interesting choice for the singles spot.

39 comments:

  1. I agree that Red is not the best ambassador for the game. Can we change the subject please....

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  2. i think its safe to say the met has added pretty much the strongest players and they beat LF last time. predictions from this moderator suck--it doesnt seem like he really knows the game

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  3. If Sugar Creek wins in singles I'm sure the Mob Squad/Red/Greg will file a protest. If you can't win... protest.

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  4. No they won't file a protest unless the other team wins and its a big match. Since Sugar Creek is out of it, they will not file one.

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  5. Lol. I have never filed a protest against any opponent. The only two players I've ever talked to Tosha about were Reid Strand and Trent Broach.

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  6. I heard Kingwood team is injured. Juan Lopez and Odion are injured and will not be back any time soon.

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  7. Sugar Creek is pretty much out of it, and the Mob has pretty much guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. Why would they protest if they lost? What would be the point? The Mob is not going to lose to any of the other teams, and the season is winding down.

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  8. Odion injured again? he needs to lay off the weights. frickin dudes a beast.

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  9. freeman's been awfully quiet...what's up his sleeve?

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  10. I heard both Kudrick and Robins are on the injured list for Copperfield. They'll have a tough time tonight.

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  11. I guess Kingwood will just have to clean house in doubs then.

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  12. I'm here, what would any of you in the blogosphere like to know?

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  13. Freeman,
    when will your secret weapon, the Great "S", play?

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  14. Freeman is lining up his summer teams for 2009, contracts are being written as we speak. GO FREEMAN!!!!

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  15. Both Omon and Odion are entered in the Waco draw, they must not be injured to badly.

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  16. The Great "S" is training with Federer in Switzerland for his 4.5 summer league debut.

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  17. I'm hoping to get Sarosh back out on the court in the next two weeks. He has a lot of catching up to do. I might be in better shape than he is right now....nah, probably not.

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  18. Your fat too... to many buffets for you!

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  19. I dislike fat people, they take all the food away from Kallus.

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  20. I can't disagree with that...but I can still out run Urtis!!!

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  21. The fat jokes are stupid, and keep the Kallus comments to the tournament blog.

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  22. You must be one of those fat guys with no sense of humor.

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  23. no thats red! lol...the fat bastard

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  24. Not at all, fat jokes are just stupid just like most blond jokes.

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  25. you must be fat & blond

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  26. That was funny. I can't stop laughing.

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  27. SAP is going down 5-0 tonight against Sienna.

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  28. SAP will win 3-2 to make Division III even more interesting.

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  29. SAP SUCKS! they'll lose -1-5 tonight

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  30. I think someone on the SAP team didn't finish school because there are only 5 lines. So 1-5 is not possible.

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  31. Sorry, I mean Sienna.

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  32. no negative 1.. you dick... that's how bad they suck

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  33. Mr Blogger,

    Can you please block these idiots. They obviously have issues that need to be addressed.

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  34. Wow, I had to check and see which blog I was on. This stuff normally stays on the tournament blog, keep it there.

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  35. Sienna won 3-2 tonight. Close matches all around although the scores don't necessarily indicate so on tennislink for some of the lines.

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  36. I meant to add in the same comment that f'ing no add shish was probably why the score was the way it was.

    I do not see why HTA does not empower the captains to mutually decide on a scoring format for all 5 lines PRIOR to the start of the match.

    We won the second set b/c homeboy I was playing threw up a double at 3-3. What a pile of shit. I hated to win that way, but that is how it roles.

    They should let the captains decide how to play it out. I understand the whole MemPark lights out rule and have experienced that in my past so I am empathetic to those who play out of facilities that have time constraints and that is where the no-ad bullshit should be played.

    Just my $.04.
    Chris

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  37. Anyone have scores from 4.5?

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  38. Copperfield beat Jedi Knights 3-2. Yutts beat Lost forest 4-1. Mob Squad beat SugarCreek 3-2. 5.0/Lost Forest beat the Met 3-0

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