Arkansas Tennis Blog

So old days the biggest complaint has been the guys having to play a match on Friday and missing work because of a match schedule at noon and then nothing until Saturday, well the higher ups at ATA decided to go one further and scheduled not "1" but "2" matches on Friday. Should make for interesting line-ups on Friday So matches: Friday Noon: Birch v Cato Fairley/Miller v. Humbert/Stursma 4:30: Laster v Humbert/Stursma Fairley/Miller v. Birch Saturday 11:00 AM Humbert/Stursma v Cato Fairley/Miller v. Laster 5:00 PM Fairley/Miller v Cato Birch v. Laster Sunday 11:00 AM Humbert/Stursma v Birch Cato v. Laster Good luck to all and have fun on the courts

League Play has Finished and let the Games begin Assuming there will be a 5 Team Royal Rumble the weekend of June 6-8th Five Teams Fighting to Go To Sectionals Miller/Fairley: Cato/Jonesboro: Bolds has been DQ'ed to 5.0, believe it was a Dynamic DQ and not grievance Stursma/NWA: Laster/WATA: Birch/CLR:  Should be interesting will the 4 teams have their full line-ups for that inevitable Friday match that ATA loves to play on Friday for the guys at 11 AM or will the guys get lucky and get a 4PM start or later. Rumor: of 2 more players from unknown teams are currently being looked at, so teams could change some more. Also can anyone find the current DII signee on one of the teams. Any captains want to write their bio send a message, have some fun but nothing offensive

It appears the State Championships lineup is taking shape: Mid-Season Winner: Miller/Fairley is in NWA: Humbert-Stursma/Bella Vista/BV CLR: Miller/Fairley and Birch will fight it out this week, but both teams should advance into State -- Teams Split matches to finish season, good hard fought matches on both sides  NEA: No matches played, Cato added to 2 Memphis Players, which seem suspect at best but appear in rules as long as Bolds has not played College, although the 4.0 rating is an absolute joke. The 2nd team has more 4.0 players than 4.5, need a rule made that team requires 2/3 of players to be at level so jokes like this don't happen. Still need to play 3-4 matches by Monday WATA: Same as Jonesboro, Laster set to win but second team has more 4.0 than 4.5 players, another joke league. Still need to play 3-4 matches by Monday Independent: Kiker second team setup but 1 player signed-up, not sure I see how they will play 3-4 matches in this league to get qualified ...

Central Little Rock Well season finally winding down, 1 team is eliminated from contention now. Robinson sits at 0-4 and out of any chance of going to State Tournament after dropping Robinson dropped 2 5-0 decisions to Miller's Team Miller also defeated Kiker 3-2 losing the 2 singles matches before sweeping the doubles. Kiker is now on the ropes for a standing 8 count on their chances to make State out of CLR. They have a big match against Birch Thursday Night. A Birch win knocks Kiker out of the running and all but clinches a spot at State for Birch with 3 more matches to complete. There were a few additions over the last few weeks and subtractions. Birch: lost Hudson and Edens back to Jonesboro, even though Jonesboro still only has one team filled, the second team still has not registered any players, I hate this right now because it should throw up many red flags, the same thing is happening in Hot Springs as well. WATA is not much different with no matches being played. ...