Yeah, I wasn't out there, and have only talked to a coupla' people, but my first impressions:
There's a new favorite in 4.0. Chancellor's (who for some reason are calling themselves the Mob Squad now) lost badly to the Westside Warriors. Rumor on the street was that Mark Etienne moved over to Westside because he thought they would be better than his old Lakeside team. I guess he was right.
Freeman's 4.0 team squeaked past the Rolido Boys.
It was a bad night overall for Chancellor's. Sugar Creek didn't use the Jim brothers. Guess they didn't need 'em. After one week, is it time to hand them the title?
Chancellor's broke rule number one when it moved its best singles guy into doubles. It's a good strategy when it works. It didn't last night, as Minh Hoang got waxed by Patrick Baer in singles, and Hung lost the deciding doubles match in 3 sets. Great strategy if a few points go the other way, but hindsight is 20/20, and it didn't work.
Adam Berry...disappointing in a 4 and 4 win over former 4.0 Derric Driver. I was expecting more, but who knows if score management was at work?
Copperfield's rumored infusion of junior/superchamp talent (I had heard they were adding 3 of 'em, but only see two on the roster) materialized. At this point they may pose the greatest threat to Sugar Creek. If they can add one or two more and these guys are as good as advertised...who knows?
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mark is 4.5 now, not 4.0
ReplyDeletewtf is hung playing doubles? he's their most solid player. he would have easily beat baer in singles. playing minh in singles for a big match?
Mob Squad captain sucks! He can't put a lineup that can win at 4.0???? The only captaining he can do is captain a squad of McD's employee to get him some fries, double big mack, and large soda.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't the HTA membership website use an HTTPS webpage for us to pay dues?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.houstontennis.org/Content-Members/Renew/A-Credit-Card-Info.asp
That was a nice win for Patrick. Also, Alex Chang and Charles Nguyen had a nice win over Andres Ballesteros and Kevin Lotz.
ReplyDeleteChuck Stasny played line 2 singles last night.
ReplyDelete"4.5 tennis sure is tough"....said no one.
Chang wasn't on the roster. Chancellers cheaters strike again.
ReplyDeleteChang is now on the roster. Are you happy?
Deletei checked last night around 11pm and chang wasnt on the roster. sounds like a dq
ReplyDeleteWhy would they play Alex? They have better players already on their roster? I find it hard to believe Hung Pham played doubles instead of singles. Why?
ReplyDeleteYou must be new here. They're not exactly Einsteins with their lineups. Alain Tran must be their mentor.
ReplyDeleteHurricanes very weak this year
ReplyDeleteHurricanes very weak in 4.0 and 4.5. Both teams barely won last night, 3-2. Guess their dynasty is OVER.
ReplyDeleteLeave Chuck Stasny alone. He could be dominating in seniors; however, he continues to be competitive in the 18 and over league. Hats off to Chuck!
ReplyDeleteYou idiot, you must be new to Houston Tennis. Both Hurricane teams WILL be making the trip to Dallas as usual. Just watch.
ReplyDeleteIt appears one of Freeman's young disciples took a bad loss at 4.5 doubles last night.
ReplyDelete4.5 rankings
ReplyDelete1. titans- great singles and great doubles
2. lakeside- solid singles and great doubles
3. blast- solid singles, solid doubles
4. blacksheep- solid singles, but doubles is a toss up
5. canes- solid singles, but doubles is a toss up
6. copperfield- solid singles, but doubles is a toss up
7. dbags- ok singles, good doubles
8. chancellors- ok singles, ok doubles
Who's the best 4.5 singles nobody talks about? 4.5 Doubles?
ReplyDelete4.5 singles, any super champ junior. 4.5 doubles, any super champ juniors playing together. Neither are talked about.
ReplyDeleteI know no one likes to talk about boring 4.0 tennis so how about talking about 4.5s playing 4.0 tennis. I thought I read on this blog that both Salinas and Kallus were going to play for Copperield but only Salinas is on the roster. I told you I saw them arguing on the court during the HTA tourney.
ReplyDeleteSalinas wasn't arguing. He just has a loud nasely whining voice. Anyone who has play 3 courts down from him knows that.
ReplyDeleteCanes are over confident, no question Titans will take them
ReplyDeleteWhy the delay in reporting Chancellors and Titans teams? Was Chang not on roster for the line win as they say? They may not be able to recover from Week 1 loss.
ReplyDeleteThey may be in collusion to tally the point later; so both team can go to playoff. Inquirer minds want to know.
DeleteI wasn't at the Chancellor/Titans match, but it seems pretty clear that the Chancellors captain was sacrificing his singles lines in anticipation of Simon and Sydney playing singles. The big failure was in Hung and Lan not winning their line.
ReplyDeleteIf Sydney really plays, there will be a lot of this kind of strategy used against the Titans.
Hurricanes can't win a singles line against JCC Blast and they'll be lucky to be competitive in the doubles. I don't care if that Giant Mussenden plays singles. He's not beating Taylor or Berry!!! Hurricanes run is over. They are going to get B L A S T E D...
ReplyDeleteBlast is no good without Rios. They had their chances last year already. Canes will win.
ReplyDeleteNo good without Rios? HAHAHAHA! Didn't he just lose $1000 playing that old hack Ward?
ReplyDeleteHouston Racquet Club came out on top in week one, can they maintain. Most of their players are unknowns.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Red is really trying to make a point with Sugar Creek this year. Some of the Sugar Creek guys are saying that there are many more players to be added and you can expect to see Odion Dibua and Soong Tam on the roster in the near future. Not everyone on the team is excited about all the new additions but they will stomach it in order to win a national championship.
ReplyDeleteBabu is headed to Sugar Creek also. Douds just had lunch with Babu at Hooters at 59 and the Fountains.
ReplyDeleteDid Freeman and Red breakup? Why isn't Red recruiting for Freeman?
ReplyDeleteAre we talking about Houston Racquet Club 4.0 or 4.5? Im confused..
ReplyDeleteBig match up this week again in 4.5.
ReplyDeletechancellors vs lakeside
Rios vs Nguyen
Bui vs Bui
Some solid singles matches. Lakeside will start up 1-0 in the doubles if they use connell/wright.
Westside Black Sheep will take it all !!!!!
ReplyDeleteDid Rios really lose to old man ward? That's crazy if he did. It just shows that he was only competitive in 4.0. Looking at his average 4.5 results he will get killed in 5.0 if he can even make a team. so so sad.
ReplyDeleteI believe he is talking about Don Rios. Not Pete...
ReplyDeletesounds like Red is on the run. Haven't seen that dude for awhile.
ReplyDeleteDon Rios is a really good player. He will be a great addition to Lakeside.
ReplyDeleteI heard Red was helping Chancellors but all the guys he controls are on Sugar Creek.
ReplyDeleteCan someone please post the 4.0 rankings of league teams.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone stop the super champ juniors that are emerging into the league? You should at least have to be 19 to play in the league.
ReplyDeleteYou only have to turn 18 during the calendar year.
ReplyDelete4.0 League Rankings:
ReplyDelete1. Hurricanes (1-0)
2. Copperfield (1-0)
3. Lakeside (0-0)
4. Westside (1-0)
5. Mob Squad (0-1)
6. The Good Guys (1-0)
7. Columbia Lakes (1-0)
8. Rolido Boys (0-1)
9. Sienna Plantation (1-0)
10. Acers (1-0)
4.5 League Rankings:
ReplyDelete1. Black Sheep (0-0)
2. Sugar Creek (1-0)
3. Copperfield (1-0)
4. Lakeside (1-0)
5. JCC-Blast (1-0)
6. Hurricanes (1-0)
7. Duecebags (0-1)
8. Mob Squad (0-1)
9. HRC (1-0)
10. Ssshhhwings (1-0)
What's up with the Hurricanes and Rolido Boys match being disputed in 4.0?
ReplyDeleteThe Jims from Sugar Creek will stop any of the juniors.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd like to see is all the top 4.0 and 4.5 doubles teams and singles players enter in the upcoming Copperfield Open in May. It will be like a pre-City blowout!!! Alot of the mirrors and smoke blowing will be left up to the results in on local event. John Kudrick owner of Copperfield runs a good tournament for everyone interested.
ReplyDeleteWhen is the Copperfield Open?
ReplyDeleteHurricanes 4.5 got Ray MarMuthaF*ck*ngtinez... And y'all say they have no players... Please....
ReplyDeletecopperfield and kudrick are great to the tennis community. the problem with copperfield is the traffic on 290.
ReplyDeletedid the blacksheep and gypsies play each other? the results have not been posted.
ReplyDeleteCanes 4.5 also have Mussenden, who won the houston open doubles in the open division.
ReplyDeleteMussenden lost in the finals and was completly carried in the doubles by is his extremly good partner who plays at SMY
ReplyDeleteI disagree Mussenden is a great player and his partner from SMU was really good too.
ReplyDeleteMussenden is a good player. Im not sold he is a ringer in singles just yet. He will have to prove himself against the Blast.
ReplyDeleteCopperfield Open - May 2nd
ReplyDeleteSeriously let's get all the top summer league singles and doubles teams in this tournament for a city wide playoff preview. This would put an end to alot of smack talk.
http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/TournamentHome_New/Tournament.aspx?T=113402
I think we should just play league and not play tournaments.There will always be smack talk.
ReplyDeleteWere all still in school, Copperfield Open is right before finals week.
ReplyDeleteSigned, A-Draw Superchamp Player who, along with 3 friends will be joining Matt and Drew soon.
Who are Matt and Drew?
ReplyDeleteThink about it. Play the Copperfiled tournament and let your Blog smack talk be shown on the court. It can almost be made a team event. Let the real players/teams show up to show off their their game before the city playoffs.
ReplyDeleteI rather show off my smack talk on the blog.
ReplyDeletePlay WTT if you wanna play a team event. No need to play Copperfield and show the rest of the city whose on your teams.
ReplyDeleteWestside Black Sheep will destroy everyone in 4.5. Ristau has got a team this year. Everyone is playing for 2nd place.
ReplyDeletei agree that ristau has a very good team this year, and would have made sectionals last year. but this year, there are 4 other teams that are stacked as well.
ReplyDeleteRistau and Sectionals do not belong in the same sentence. Unless they're taking 4 teams from Houston this year.
ReplyDeleteBut... Ristau and speedo does below in the same sentence.
ReplyDelete