Thursday, July 16, 2009

Early Action

I stopped by just for the beginning of the evening. League legends were abound: Jimmy Kilshaw, Allen Teague, Red Benzon, Phong Regent, Cheryl and Diana and so many others who have been mainstays of league tennis for years.

The singles matchups:

Hasker v. Omon
Pumma v. Daniel Morales
Carpenter v. Holmes
Patterson v. Lubrano
Hansen v. Q. Bui
Rios v. Alzate

Doubles Matchup (line 1 at 7)

Phan/Phan v. Ristau/Dimitrijevic
Odion/Burrmann v. Dugas/Dugas
Robins/Letan v. Rothe/Giordanelli

Omon and Hasker were on serve when I left, as was the Phan/Phan doubles match. Didn't get any other scores.

18 comments:

  1. Ristau's strategy was the most interesting. I don't know if he split Lacy and Bradley up for lines 2 and 3 doubles, but he's certainly rolling the dice. Can they pull out one (or even two?) of the singles?

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  2. HH who won and who lost the big matches?

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  3. Kind of a stunner: Kingwood has lost. Alzate beat Rios, Phan and Phan lost to Ristau and Dimitrijevic and Minh Nguyen and Chantz lost to Bradley and Shaw. Hurricanes up 4-0, and Ssshhhwing up 2-1 as Patterson and Carpenter won in straight sets. Anyone who was writing off Neil Carpenter needs to think again. Robins/Letan came back from down 7-1 in the third set breaker to keep the team's hopes alive.

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  4. Who would have thunk it Kingwood 0-2 and all but eliminated from the playoffs. I wonder if they will play the rest of their matches?

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  5. They need to play or there needs to be some kind of 'FU' punishment for the team next year.

    I am in the middle of a RR forfeit BS thing in league and it is not fair if they start forfeiting.

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  6. Ssshhhwings won. I think Hall and Judson won the third line for them.

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  7. Kingwood had 3 things going for it. Jimmy as captain and Dibua and Dibua as players. Their all gone now and the team sucks.

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  8. There are a lot of weak singles players in that list. Houston 4.5 league is not very good this year.

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  9. Just looked up someone's predicted order of finish for 4.5.

    4.5:
    1. Hurricanes (4-1)
    2. Kingwood (3-2)
    3. Deucebags (2-3)
    4. Westside (2-3)
    5. Copperfield (2-3)
    6. Swing (2-3)

    Now after 2 matches what is the predicted order of finish? I'm guessing Kingwood is not going to finish #2.
    Maybe
    1)Canes (5-0)
    2)Deucebags (3-2)
    3)Schwinnnnggg (3-2)
    4)Kingwood (2-3)
    5)Black Sheep (2-3)
    6)Copperfield (0-5)

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  10. Hey Folks, how about a shout out to HTA for making the playoffs interesting?

    IMHO they have done a good job with the flights and the playoffs this year.

    Give them some feedback that at least it is interesting and there is some drama....

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  11. Ristau looked like a genius tonight. Alzate won a tough one and they prolly could've swept the doubles from what I saw. Great job from Tom!

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  12. Shout out to HTA. 4.5 is more intersting than 4.0 (yawn yawn yawn)

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  13. Black Sheep - Crush came down to Alzate/Rios on 1S. It took 3 TB's. Tito hung in down a set and 2 5 and faced a match point.

    Both guys battled hard.

    Gotta Love City

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  14. that tito and rios match was a marathon. probably the longest league match ever played. both guys are cool dudes. unfortunately someone had to take the lost.

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  15. My prediction is for 2nd place in mens 4.5s: its all going to come down to that 5:00pm match on Sunday between the Ssshhhwwwings and the Deucebags for all the marbles.

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  16. I'll predict that Carpenter beats Hasker if they match up on Sunday. He's rounding into form.

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  17. You guys crack me up.

    Here is one of the 4.0 brackets:
    http://tinyurl.com/kvalcb

    Here is the 4.5:
    http://tinyurl.com/lht72t

    From 1230p and on tomorrow.

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