tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post6497217499891381688..comments2024-03-26T09:23:26.937-04:00Comments on ZooTennis: Saints and Rams Vie for Gold Balls in USTA Boys Spring Team Championships; Tornados and Firecrackers Meet for Girls TitleColette Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14905215531491180014noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post-57228113941593651952014-03-14T01:10:52.458-04:002014-03-14T01:10:52.458-04:00Jim K.
Cheating is bad in juniors but not near as ...Jim K.<br />Cheating is bad in juniors but not near as bad as you act like. No one is gonna get their ranking simply from cheating or bullying. If a players getting bullied they clearly have no competitive fire and won't make it as an athlete. If they are one of those so called great athletes that are leaving the sport because of cheating or bullying, if they can't handle it in tennis than they surely can't handle it in a contact sport. But you are right in the fact that some kids can chase points but if you do know tennis it's very easy to see which players those are and those players never do anything in the big tournaments. You have players doing the same thing in the ITFs. Normally the top spots in the rankings are pretty true cause those are the players that are doing best at all the bigger tournaments(which all the good players will play). However the top spots in the ITFs can be pretty inaccurate at times simply because the top juniors will move onto the pros and quickly lose their junior points . What happens if they do get chair umpires to watch every match to fix the cheating that you keep mentioning. The chairs are gonna screw up more than they help, perhaps you need to go to some futures or challenger events. Then all the complainings gonna go to the umpires. Bottom line is kids need to learn how to compete, if theyre being bullied or cheated they need to learn how to handle it.. Whenever you talk about academies raising kids to their ceiling faster it sounds like that's just another bitter excuse for why one kids better than another.Tennis playernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post-43318542818792784052014-03-13T17:57:05.228-04:002014-03-13T17:57:05.228-04:00Collette, it must be very frustrating having to wa...Collette, it must be very frustrating having to waste a week to cover a worthless junior team event. Guess this will be a lot of kids only chance to ever garner a gold ball.Eeyorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post-77389957359518600832014-03-13T17:46:52.237-04:002014-03-13T17:46:52.237-04:00Please stop talking about "top kids". T...Please stop talking about "top kids". The USTA rankings are worthless. Rankings can be obtained by point chasing, cheating, bullying. We have no idea if # 8 is really better than # 28, or if they simply had parents spend more money on finding the right tournaments or academies that raised them to their ceiling faster.<br /><br />I have seen many, many examples of highly ranked kids in person being less than amazing.Jim K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post-75417405877772350902014-03-13T15:12:08.924-04:002014-03-13T15:12:08.924-04:00What do you know that nobody else does? Aidan May...What do you know that nobody else does? Aidan Mayo is there and will soon be number 1 in the 12s and he just turned 11. So is top ranked brother Keenan. Rather than another format how about you get a real name so we can know where the everlasting snarkiness regarding kids is from.Marty Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160264621446227870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post-63024036228677084002014-03-13T15:11:46.178-04:002014-03-13T15:11:46.178-04:00Two disappointing losses in Futures. Evan King lo...Two disappointing losses in Futures. Evan King loses to Taylor Fritz, 3 & 3? Huh? Kwiatkowski loses to Baughman 4 & 2? Both very surprising to me.Brentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10016685.post-71460009748357936102014-03-13T13:08:20.321-04:002014-03-13T13:08:20.321-04:00Finally, the kids that are competing are being ide...Finally, the kids that are competing are being identified and credited for their match play. Previously, the Team names were absolutely worthless unless you wanted to go to a chart of players/teams. <br /><br />So is this event worth anything? Sounds like it is not, other than the kids are having fun and it is a way to spend Spring break for some. Top players are not there, neither are top coaches. This is should be a one and out experiment. Let's face it folks, team tennis is fabulous in college, pretty good when your play for your Section or State. Find another format.Team competitionnoreply@blogger.com