Ditto, my WTT 3.5 team remains undefeated the whole season after we won our final match today. We're heading to Las Vegas as well in April. I'll be having both of my teams competing in UNLV. I'm hoping that there will be no schedule conflicts (like I did at Mixed Sectionals earlier this year). Stay tune for more info and progress. :-)
Yay, it's official, my WTT 4.0 team made it to sectionals. We will be competing with other WTT 4.0 teams around the nation in April of 2009. It was a tough season but we managed to stay undefeated and therefore clinching the local title without even have to win the last match of the season. We played our final match today and even though we lost to the 2nd place team, we are still the local champs because every team as lost at least twice. SO, stay tuned and I will update our progress at Sectionals next April at UNLV!
Well, we did it this year! We're Sectional Bound for the 8.0 Mixed Team representing San Gabriel Valley! It will be the weekend of my birthday next month. From the beginning of this mixed season it is my goal to get the team to Sectionals after a tight lost to Hatty's team last year. We missed sectionals by a match lost. I'm so happy that we pulled it off despite all the obstacles we had in the past week. Two of my key players Tac and Judy were on the injury list. I had to leave work for a couple of hours to win with Beverly to clinch out berth to So Cal Sectionals!
Match summary is below. Who would've thought with 3 of my key players not on the lineup, we were able to pull it through losing only one match out of nine matches!!! That's phenomenal. It's much more than I expected!
Sat. 4/12 1PM vs. Santa Barbara
David and Sandy won 3-6, 7-5, 1-0
Tac and Beverly lost 7-5, 6-4
Alain and Lan won by default
Sat 4/12 4PM vs. Temecula Valley
Terry and Beverly won 6-4, 6-3
Lan and Alain won 7-5, 6-1
David and Sandy won 6-7, 6-2, 1-0
Sun 4/13 1PM vs. Ventura County
Terry and Beverly won 3-6, 6-1, 1-0
Lan and Alain won 6-3, 6-2
David and Sandy won 6-2, 6-4
Above is the team photo of all who played in the last round. Too bad, Tac, Raj, Linda, and Judy were not present. I'm sure we'll have another photo op at Sectionals!
P.S. Now I have a dilema. I wasn't expecting to have all 3 of my mixed team go to Sectionals. The schedule are directly conflicting with each other and at 2 different location. I'm gonna have to choose which team to play for. Perhaps, I can play one match with the SGV 7.0 team.
Lan and Judy won their Final match at the Top Gun Tournament handily in straight sets. They had a much tougher bottom draw even though they had a first round bye. Their 2nd round match last week, and their semi-finals match was much tougher in competition. They almost lost in the semis against too very experienced and crafty tennis players. In fact, upon researching their records, they have not lost this year until yesterday against Lan and Judy. I’m so proud of the girls because they played magnificently throughout the tournament.
David and Jimmy also won their men's 4.5 doubles finals as well. However, they had to go to a 3rd set. It was tougher than they had expected. Nonetheless, it was a good win for them and here are some action shots of their match.
I had a great time watching James Blake almost losing to Paul Goldstein after winning the first set convincingly @ love. Then the table turned around and Blake lost the 2nd set quickly 6-1. They were neck to neck in the 3rd set and Blake had many chances to break Goldstein but he couldn't close the deal. In fact, he was down a match point at 5-6. Fortunately, Blake served a great 2nd serve wide and pulled Goldstein off the court, and followed with a forehand crosscourt winner. He then broke Goldstein next game, and served 4 aces the following game to win the match. What a "nail-biter"!
Well, we squeaked out another one. We beat Claremont 3-2 today so we're going to Sectionals in August. Even though I lost today with Steve Mak, Lawrence and Dave really came through for the team by clinching the win via a 3rd super-tie-breaker. Above is out team photo, minus a couple of players (Andy Neff, Ernie Ong).
We will be competing at Los Caballeros Tennis Center in Orange County on the weekend of 8/17-8/19. This is an added bonus since Lan's Ladies 3.5 team (read previous post) are also going to the Sectionals on the same weekend. This is going to be fun and exciting.
We played our final match today. As a team we won 2-1 against Claremont Tennis Club. Unfortunately, my parter Dianne and I lost in a close third set tie-breaker. The score was 6-7, 6-4, 1-0 (11-9). We actually had 2 match points but we couldn't convert it.
We had a great team and a great chance to win our section to compete at Sectionals. We were actually first place for about 4 weeks after we beat the #1 team which is now edging us out by a match. :-(
Darn it. I have to email the whole team with the bad news.
We were fortunate enough to win our SCTA section once again this year and gain a berth at the Combo-Sectionals at Indian Wells Garden. We won our section last year and went on the State Championship at Bakersfield.
Unfortunately, this year we were a little short, and we didn't even make it to the Finals. We had a skeleton crew and didn't have our top players on the team competing. In fact, Friday night we only had 4 players, thus forfeiting the #3 doubles. We lost 2-1 and we were behind the whole way. We were fortunate enough to win 2-1 in our 2nd match on Saturday afternoon. We needed to win all 3 matches but Donald tore his achilles tendon during this match. He was actually ahead in the match but couldn't run during the 2nd and the 3rd set tie-breaker. He tried his heart out. I really commend him for trying so hard.
That night when the whole team went to dinner to celebrate our coming so far, we had to get him a wheelchair every where. That's why the picture above, he's in the wheelchair.
