Oh boy .. the form that get many in trouble or weeding out cheaters.
Archive for April, 2010
The Russians Are Coming
Or 八国联军 Baguolianjun – the Eight Power Allied Force is coming?
Wow .. I’m surprised at the speed of Klee’s reply.
After this incident, I think I’d better sticking my head in front of my computer 24/7 as long as I’m on an USTA league. Geeeeeee .. Come to think of it, Klee didn’t leave too much time for reply: his complaints landed in my email box on 4/6, at 4:29pm and 4:52 and he demanded a reply by 4/9 at 12pm and 4pm respectively, less than three days. Just wondering: what IF the recipients aren’t nerds who only check their emails weekly?
A few hours in the sun
It’s an absolutely a gorgeous day out there. My teammates trickled on to the court one by one. One of the teammates brought her date to the practice. As it turned out, it’s CJ Papa, a sportscaster who covers Islanders on radio. Hmmmmmm … He’s much better looking than the skinny woman who covers Islanders game on tv. Pls replace her !!
What’s going on with the Islanders?
Charles Wang is regretting ever bought this ice hockey team?
Off the ice, things are an absolute mess, unless you consider the development of Islanders Entertainment a big win. If you’re wondering what DiPietro has been up to lately, just visit the Islanders Entertainment web site, where you’ll see him on video extolling the virtues of the product, which is basically tickets to shows combined with a hotel room and breakfast.
Islanders to Broadcast Games on College Radio Station ..
Queens Mixed Playoff
2010 Metro USTA Leagues Queens Mixed Playoff Regulations
Gee, the Rules wasn’t enough?
Tomas Berdych
Tomas Berdych (1985-) took Roger Federer out in the quarter at Sony Ericsson Open in Miami yesterday. Big deal .. FedEx had match point.
咸鱼翻身 or what? I thought Berdych looks like Jim Courier (1970-) but bit prettier. Jim turned pro in 1988 and retired in 2000. Berdych is 6’5″ and turned pro in 2002.
He took out Fernando Verdasco this afternoon in three sets.
This afternoon Venus Williams took out Marion Bartoli of France. Although the French at time could keep up with Venus but her chubby figure doesn’t seem to be lasting. And is she potting or what when she serves? Too many small motions ..
Now, how about Venus’s red dress?
Moulin Rouge?? It certainly looks good on her.
Is this really fair?
Our match against Kings Park was pretty competitive. Their captain teamed up with a young guy whom I questioned if he’s just out of college. He laughed and said ‘I wish’. Oh well, guess I forgot my 老花镜 presbyopic glasses.
We won first two games but then lost the set at 2-6. I thought .. .. it’s going to be over soon because the kid is really good, could fly, jump and dump, basically getting to everything, and the lady was a solid 3.5. But then my partner who did most lifting (as usually) came alive in the second set, sealed it with a assertive backhand cross court.
Wow .. we actually won it 6:4.
Was it mental or physical? Perhaps both. My partner’s enthusiasm certainly boosted my energy level too. But unfortunately I ran out of steam in the third set super tie break – lost it at 10:5.
Afterward, when I checked their rating did I realize that their combined rating was 7.5: he’s newly minted 4.0 but playing as 3.5 . So it was 6.5 vs 7.5. One of the match I played in January, my partner was a 4.0 and we faced 4.0 guy and 3.5 gal: 7.0 vs 7.5.
Those occurances were due to year end rating because Long Island and Manhattan start their Mixed Doubles league before the year end ranking becomes available. So whomever joined the team at their then-current level could play at that level regardless they were upgrade to a higher level or down graded. I was very surprised to see this happening. On one hand the USTA obsessively promotes and guards the NTRP to even out the playing field while on the other hand allows this kind of open cheating – potentially 8.0 too, plays in a 7.0 league. It seems very hypercritical.
Why doesn’t the league add a provision that should a player get bumped up at year end, s/he either resigns from the team (but the matches played stay; and fees refunded) if s/he couldn’t find appropriated ranked teammate OR play with their new ranking? Isn’t this the whole point of having a rating system in the first place??? – than openly cheat for a season?
Beam enlighten me up, Scotty
