Well, another week is upon us. In 4.5 and 5.0, the rosters thus far are littered with familiar names. As far as I can tell, nobody emerged in week one as a new "ringer" on the scene. That may change as things heat up and some more interesting matchups emerge, but for now, it appears that the 4.5 and 5.0 leagues are a bit down in comparison to years past. Some familiar names (Tim Green, Ken Burkhart, etc.) are missing thus far. The 4.0 division has the usual number of new names. There are far too many teams to sort through all of them, but Freeman's team seems to have captured a lot of the new talent that emerged at "The Coke" this year.
Copperfield will make its much-ballyhooed debut tonight, facing the Jedi Knights. Copperfield's roster has not blossomed as many thought it would, but they still should be a solid team and will be a tough out for the Knights. Jim Patton's bunch has made City Playoffs in four of the last five years and despite an apparent singles weakness will be competitive in every match they play. David McMullan and Mike Salinas may be the singles guys for Copperfield: solid, but not spectacular. John Kudrick is the x factor...
Other decent 4.5 matchups tonight are Westside's No Way Out (who were competitive against Kingwood last week) against the 4.5 Hurricanes. Mob Squad takes on a Sugar Creek team that has been to the playoffs the last 3 years but appears a bit weaker this year. Also, Rice takes on the Black Sheep team, which has a few unfamiliar names who could emerge as top players.
In 5.0, last week's two winners square off as Craig Bobo's Memorial Park squad plays against the Met. The Met has added players like Amit Garg and Arun Nanjappa in the absence of a Rice 5.0 team this year and appears to be the strongest of a somewhat weak 5.0 bunch. In fact, Bobo's team has just one 5.0 rated player on its roster (Alex Beaux).
To be honest, in 4.0 at this point I'm only keeping my eye on 3 or 4 teams until someone else emerges. The Hurricanes, Rice Saints and Chancellor's have proven to be solid teams in recent years. With Lakeside not having a team this year, those are clearly the early frontrunners.
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The Lakeside 4.0 team merged with Royal Oaks, who the Hurricanes play tonight. Probably the best 4.0 match-up tonight.
ReplyDeleteIts a good night for 4.5 matches.
Tonight the top 2 teams in 4.0 flight III square off with last years 3.5 national team (LLTC-SAP) playing an established playoff team from Seinna. Can the 3.5 guys hang?
ReplyDeleteWill the Great Sarosh finally play tonight?
ReplyDeleteLeach,
ReplyDeleteDo you know how the NETX guys did in Palm Springs st Tri-Level Nationals?
No, the great Sarosh did not play from what i hear.
ReplyDeleteRed got smoked 6-2 6-1. I wonder how that felt.
ReplyDeleteRed is average 4.5 player. Maybe little above average. NO backhand. Tricky serve that you can get use to. He always bring in great players to be his partner. No great doubles players on Mob Squad. He will load up North Houston team with great players to try to make himself look good.
ReplyDeleteTo all the posts of the MET losing to Westside: did not happen, they won 4-1.
ReplyDeleteWhat's weakest?
ReplyDeleteRed's backhand or
Sarosh's ankle?
Great matches last night at memorial park--particularly the 5.0 division with the MET team and the MPTC team. the met team won 2-1 including the singles and #1 doubles. great doubles matches with garg and li pulling out a close one in the third.
ReplyDeleteWho cares about Red's backhand or Sarosh's ankle neither shows up so lets move on. Anybody know about this AAdrian Hasker??
ReplyDeleteBurmann and Day are unbeatable. they rule the 4.5 League along with Armstrong/Hurlbert.
ReplyDeleteRed's backhand cannot be that bad, he manages to win alot. Of course, Burrman/Day spanked him good, but thats the norm for Burrman/Day, they do not lose much.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to Sarosh's ankle, WHO CARES!!!!! Get over it and leave it off the blog, the topic is getting old.
What a puss for an excuse on a hurt ankle. it's been over 2 months. everyone's playing with some sort of injury, either it's physical or mental. now thats he's finally playing 4.5, what he should be playing, the dude fears losing. it must be an ego thing.
ReplyDeleteWhat is lame is that you have no clue if he is really hurt, but yet you still continue to talk about it. When you become qualified to give an opinion of his medical condition and have done so, let us know.
ReplyDeletenot to break up the trash talking and name calling but what do people think of the actual results last night in 4.5?
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