tennis, life and a few things in between

I haven’t played singles in a long time – don’t remember how long, except one last summer vs Anne. Today I just played, losing 6-4 (or 7-5?) against a soon to be teammates on the 3.5 Women this summer. I was up 3-1 then serving at 3-4, and lost that game too. I was up 0:30 on her serve at served then 30:0 on the following game but wasn’t able to convert/hold. I served well but wasn’t mentally tough. Uhhhhh, my grunting was disgusting.
I have no plan when I walked out there – not gooda!.
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Kai wanted to play at the South. It’s been a while that I played there. At 8am, I found a huge crowd there, all upper courts are being taken. One lone woman stood on the court, as if to say the court is taken ..

I live the closest but when I got there, the 3some were already there. The courts at South are more spacious. We had the company of baseballers. I played pretty good, Kai and I took all 3 sets.

Maybe he is a 4.0?

History repeats itself. 4/23 I got a Rating Promotion notice for Kai, and the Local Playoffs were on April 30.

Your match results have generated 3 ratings at the disqualification level for 3.5 level matches and you are no longer eligible to play at the 3.5 level. According to the Web site (TennisLink), you played 1 match on the 3.5 Holz team and 3 matches on the 4.0 Samuel team. The matches generating the strikes are those played on 4/5, 4/14 and 4/21. You are promoted to 4.0 and your rating will be changed immediately. You may continue to play on your 4.0 men’s team, and on your mixed doubles teams but you must be paired with a 3.0 partner on the 7.0 mixed team.

How did Kai’s rating catch the league’s attention?

There is a computer generated report I review daily. No complaints – strictly computer

On average, how many players get promoted or demoted daily?

I got no reply.

Kai played 3.5 mixed doubles in 2010 and got a year end rating M 3.5. Now he’s D4.0, which means IF he plays well, he could be promoted to 4.5 or even 5.0.

Key to Type of Rating
S – Self-rate or Medical Appeal
A – Appeal
B – Benchmark – advanced to playoff or championship round
C – Computer
D – Dynamic
E – Early Start League dynamic
M – Mixed Exclusive Year-end Rating
T – Tournament Exclusive Year End Rating

The match ups and regulations are finally reached us only two days before the playoffs.
Eng vs. Vogt
Kim vs. Rowe

The league coordinator once said dealing with USTA is enormous headache because they’re just very difficult to deal with .. wrote

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First, thank you so much for your patience and understanding while we worked on the National Tennis Center scheduling mistake.

First off, our league is an extensions of the USTA, even IF it isn’t but we are the solid fan base for the sports, why can’t the USTA treat us with courtesy and respect? Last week, I played in a tourney ran jointly by CatsNY and ACS that was able to swiftly changed to indoor the day after due to inclement weather forecast, with same number of courts, 3 days prior. I was thinking, geeee .. 10 courts (usta only has 12 indoor courts), 3 days and they could do it. BUT as the league, the usta can not accommodate us in any way?

This past January I had my birthday party at USTA. Dealing with them was an unpleasant experience as if the organization is run by a group of incompetents. Numerous meaningless emails had exchanged, and vast of them were due to non reply and or informing me of whose job it actually was. One day was J and next was D, or might be T ..

I didn’t realized they had over charged me till I did my credit bills. So more calls later, a refund was issued but it posted actually as a debt. I called again. Aside learned more staff names (non of them returned my call ..) nothing happened. I should have just called up Amex and dispute the charge. It was resolved on 3/25.