Arkansas Tennis Blog

Well the youngsters finished Sectionals last weekend and well my predicitions kinda sucked. AR 4.0: 2-2, but could have been 4-0 with 2 MTB wins. No Wiseman, no Kaliki probably hurt, but it is what it is. Not sure who gets bumped to 4.5 next, although have to assume, Zimmerman, Meredith, Wiseman are likely candidates. AR 4.5: 0-4, not wholly unexpected, this was more of a 40 and over team, with a couple youngsters to feed to the brutal heat. Good fights but not their year. Believe Casey G. saved himself a bump with a few losses at Sectionals. AR 5.0: 0-4, pretty disappointing result, this team was pretty stacked, but without a Kajevski and Martinex would have been tough but with a few of the guys though would have done better. 40 and overs started today and the 4.5 Men got a big win over GA (A). . Good luck the rest of the way for the 4.5 guys. With a dominating 5-0 win over SC the men play the Finals this morning, I would think they would be the favorites against NC. Single...

2017 Sectionals for Arkansas Wait was there a season this year, guess so even if I decided to hack my way thru disc courses of the SE. Oh just waiting for the 40s season in 2018 so this old man can get his butt kicked by the over 40s  5.0 players, but anyways who cares about the washed up hacker. With out further adieu, lets look at the divisions 4.0 and above divisions. For those 3.5 and below, don't come complaining, because I don't care. 4.0: So lets see the team I would have thought to win easily in AR, took their lumps but came thru and won the State, I mean come on when you have a bunch of former 4.5 old men and 5.0 level Seniors, you should win. This is loaded by AR standards and consider to be best team at 4.0 level coming out since the 2008 team that took 2nd at Nationals. Big question can the old guys handle the heat? Lots of experience on this team as well with many members having been to sectionals before. Expect Wise"crack"man to try and keep his ...

Ok maybe not popular but for me one request is enough to type up something real quick Good-bye nice to know you in 4.5 land. Casey Garretson, Eddie Bailey, Alex Scharlau, Alex Rivas, and Jay Heflin got the boot to 5.0 UAFS and OBU Junior Pups also saw their fun end going to 5.0 Hey we missed you Award and welcome back to 4.5: Brandon Cox out in WATA. Raul Bermudez finally gets his 5.0 rating, will be tough to beat there. I am sure Wyatt and crew are beating his door for 5.0 and 40+ 4.5 league Super Mario and Baylor Stud Sergio get kicked to 5.5, after dominating 5.0 and 9.0 mixed Those celebrating the new ratings: Adam Zimmerman and Jimbo Ramsey -- Congrats on another year to dominate those poor bastards at 4.0 yet again Drinking Salty Tears yet again: Brandon Kiker, what does the poor man have to do to get to 4.0 again. Is it time to get visual verifiers out again? There are many players who who probably be about 1 level lower, while others need to be higher. Will USTA...

I know I am asshole with such a tease, I'll comeback for more later today or tomorrow, or whenever the hell I feel like it. Will say first glance interesting, but not a lot of excitement For those to lazy to look follow this link and figure it out: http://tennislink.usta.com/Leagues/reports/NTRP/AdvancedSearch.aspx Update 10:43 PM Alright the big man at Burns has requested some knowledge be shed for 2015 season so here goes 1. 5 guys from Ft Smith got the bump to 5.0, damn guess that means UAFS will now win 5.0 leagues 2. Batman and Robin from Little Rock can no longer dominate 8.5, but I hear they may tackle 9.5 now 3. Kiker, Luneau, Robinson, Nordentoft in 2016 beat Marc Nixon, that way you can go down to 4.0 4. Tank You Very Much Award: Papa Murphy 5. Miller, Phelps, Jones and the other 5.0s on the Sectional Team, thanks for not tanking 6. Jonesboro 2016: Rivas is back, but leave the MS guys alone 7. How many teams with the dynamic duo commit to next year, only to...

Hmm for some reason some clowns still like to view this site on occassion, must be bored or have a 5th grade reading level for this drivel. So anyways after hearing about 1 person's interest, let's discuss that beast of a format called Combo, in particular 8.5 combo. Whoa!! Hold on to your butts, saw everything from 4.5/4.0 combos, to a 5.0/4.5 combo (well ok will be in about 3 weeks), then there was a 5.0/3.5 popular and what about that 5.5/3.0 line winning a match. So in the end the tennis player, turned farmer/rancher Kiker led his band of goons to the title, while texting non-stop and never stepping foot on the court, well done. Hoffmann/McDaniels won the clutch matches, although they must have been bored as they actually lost a match to Rogers or still pissed about forgetting a sign-up deadline ATA's favorite son and Burns Park superintendent won everything this weekend As for the other teams: Rogers as usual showed up for one day, then said fuck it, let...

4.0 Men: Thought I would know more of these guys but truly don't recognize many of them. Rogers/Scott appears to be the clear favorite and with their toughest competition not allowed into the tournament they should roll pretty good. Expect Synco holding down the singles lines, David Lord playing top of the Doubles with multiple partners. Appears toughest match will be the first one against NWA. Fort Smith has 2 teams (3 team league) NWA has 2 teams (1st and 3rd Place) CLR only 1 Team WTF!!! Where the hell is Jonesboro who are always staples of 4.0 State? No Mid-season hurt CLR this year as they only got one team in even though their 2nd Place team is better IMO than the other teams outside of Rogers/Scott. Of course no mid-season also meant no late season tanking could be done, see their is a benefit. So predict: 1: CLR: Rogers/Scott 2: WATA: Nelligan 3: NWA: Harris 4: WATA: Tran 5: NWA: Baird 4.5 40+ Men This is easily Birch's to lose, would take a miracle or ...

May do some chatting in the neat future and see what I can do to make the few fans happy. Will start with 4.5+ 40&U and 5.0 Divisions 4.0 18's Tournament, will be fun Then the College Division .. sorry the 18+ 4.5 Division As for the other divisions, sorry I really just don't give a .... Once written please know I don't care what others think about what I type and if it hurts your feelings I will buy you a handkerchief to wipe away the tears. Will start posting come Wednesday or so.