Wednesday, May 13, 2009

FYI

The NCAA tennis championships are being held at Texas A&M, starting Thursday.  The women and men's championships are now held at the same site.  Both the Aggies and Longhorns will be competing. 

For those interested in attending or following the action, the Texas College Tennis Blog does a great job of covering college tennis.  

In other non-league related news, the Austin Tennis Academy has been named the third USTA regional training center.
Posted by HtownHacker at 5/13/2009 08:08:00 PM

11 comments:

  1. HtownHackerMay 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    Btw, Congrats to Minh Phan, whose student Ben Chen won the state 5A singles title Tuesday. Ben will be wearing Burnt Orange next season..

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  2. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    Sounds like a good recruiting candidate for 4.5 Houston league.

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  3. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    Where would he legally be able to self rate? 5.0/5.5/6.0???

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  4. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    If Jason Pieters is 5.0 then that is where Chen should be able to play. And Red can pick him up.

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  5. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    6.5

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  6. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    nope, 6.0

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  7. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM

    I found it interesting per review of the college tennis blog that a team could be fined for stacking their line up. Wonder what every one thinks about that.

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  8. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 4:38 PM

    It would be nice to have aystem in place that rewarded teams for playing straight up. Maybe a team plays for points instead of lines????

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  9. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 5:03 PM

    what do you have in mind?

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  10. AnonymousMay 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM

    In 3.0 up to 4.5 stacking can and does happen. In 5.0 to Open you better play straight up if you want to win.

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  11. AnonymousMay 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM

    The USTA has tried having a rule whereby someone has to stay at or above the line they play in their first match. It's an administrative nightmare and hard to captain as well. What if you have 2-3 line 1 singles players but you want to play both of them in an important match...

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