9/27/18:
"Phoenix-Ortega at C.G.! WD from Monk Memorial Final!":
There was just one session...just one match for GTA Thursday Night Tennis. And, thankfully, they got it in early as the rain came unexpectedly early...earlier than predicted! Never before has there been a season of GTA Tennis where the majority of the meteorologists have been more wrong more often...moronic! Anyway, getting back to the match, Jay "The Rising" Phoenix and "Salsa Picante" Edwin Ortega got together at the Cedar Grove Courts early enough to play a full Singles Challenge Match (as reported by Jay). So we will go to his report now...and then address a situation that developed later in the evening.
The Cedar Grove Result:
2 out of 3 Sets Challenge Match:
Jay Phoenix over Edwin Ortega, 7-5, 6-3, to successfully defend both his # 21 Rank in the Advanced Division and his # 1 Rank in the Intermediate Division! No Aces.
Jay has his say: Edwin Ortega challenged me to a full match. We played at CG from 5:10 to 6:30. In spite of the score, I feel we are evenly matched. Most of the games went to Deuce. Over the last four years, we have played dozens of times and our matches are pretty much split down the middle.
Samara's Notes: I thank Jay for his very timely reporting of this match and I congratulate him on the win.
The Consequences: With this rank defense, Jay has guaranteed himself a place in the match to determine a New GTA Intermediate Champ. After the September Rank Defense Review is conducted at the end of the month (just a couple of days away), we will know who his opponent will be. If nobody else in The Top 10 of the Intermediate Division has defended their rank this past month, Phoenix may very well be facing Ortega once again.
Speaking of consequences, later in the evening Tom La sent a couple of text messages to Frank Samara to inform him that he has aggravated his tennis elbow situation quite significantly...so much so that he will not be able to play tennis for at least a few weeks.
As such, La has to bow out of the Monk Memorial Final. The rules of the GTA do not allow for substitutions to be made in tournaments where there is advancement/progression (unless it was in the Opening Round before the match was played). Tim Nguyen did allow a substitution to take place in this very same tourney in order to keep the Nutley portion of the event moving forward as he did not know the rules of the league in that moment and was doing his best to keep the tourney afloat at that location.
Given that and the fact that the winning team that emerged from Nutley was Edgar Valencia/Arunraj Nair, that decision was allowed to stand as it was of no consequence anyway. And now since Valencia/Nair is the team in the Finals of the Monk Memorial Tournament, they benefit from La's withdrawal (which is most unfortunate for Tom's partner, William Bobila) as Edgar and Arun are now the 2018 Monk Memorial Champs! This makes them the New # 2 Ranked Team in the Doubles Division as well as the Top Contenders entitled to the next shot at the GTA Doubles Championship currently held by Nick Caputo and Ryan Pienciak.
Again, it would be unfair to allow someone new to come in to take La's place as Bobila's partner and step right into a Final that everyone else had to earn their way into...so this is the only appropriate course of action to take.
Tom La was also committed to be involved in an East-West Challenge Singles Match against Arthur Fontanilla. Since that is a series of separate matches and not an ongoing tournament of advancement/progression, substitutions are allowed in that situation. Tim Nguyen and Rich Liu have already given their stamp of approval for such a substitution, but we are still waiting to hear back from the Team Captain for Team East, Keith Lewkowitz. Also, Nguyen feels it would be appropriate to consult with Fontanilla as well. We will have more on this situation as it develops. It would be unfortunate for Team West to have to lose a point (especially with the EWC series so closely contested at this point) due to an injury.
"Phoenix-Ortega at C.G.! WD from Monk Memorial Final!":
There was just one session...just one match for GTA Thursday Night Tennis. And, thankfully, they got it in early as the rain came unexpectedly early...earlier than predicted! Never before has there been a season of GTA Tennis where the majority of the meteorologists have been more wrong more often...moronic! Anyway, getting back to the match, Jay "The Rising" Phoenix and "Salsa Picante" Edwin Ortega got together at the Cedar Grove Courts early enough to play a full Singles Challenge Match (as reported by Jay). So we will go to his report now...and then address a situation that developed later in the evening.
The Cedar Grove Result:
2 out of 3 Sets Challenge Match:
Jay Phoenix over Edwin Ortega, 7-5, 6-3, to successfully defend both his # 21 Rank in the Advanced Division and his # 1 Rank in the Intermediate Division! No Aces.
Jay has his say: Edwin Ortega challenged me to a full match. We played at CG from 5:10 to 6:30. In spite of the score, I feel we are evenly matched. Most of the games went to Deuce. Over the last four years, we have played dozens of times and our matches are pretty much split down the middle.
Samara's Notes: I thank Jay for his very timely reporting of this match and I congratulate him on the win.
The Consequences: With this rank defense, Jay has guaranteed himself a place in the match to determine a New GTA Intermediate Champ. After the September Rank Defense Review is conducted at the end of the month (just a couple of days away), we will know who his opponent will be. If nobody else in The Top 10 of the Intermediate Division has defended their rank this past month, Phoenix may very well be facing Ortega once again.
Speaking of consequences, later in the evening Tom La sent a couple of text messages to Frank Samara to inform him that he has aggravated his tennis elbow situation quite significantly...so much so that he will not be able to play tennis for at least a few weeks.
As such, La has to bow out of the Monk Memorial Final. The rules of the GTA do not allow for substitutions to be made in tournaments where there is advancement/progression (unless it was in the Opening Round before the match was played). Tim Nguyen did allow a substitution to take place in this very same tourney in order to keep the Nutley portion of the event moving forward as he did not know the rules of the league in that moment and was doing his best to keep the tourney afloat at that location.
Given that and the fact that the winning team that emerged from Nutley was Edgar Valencia/Arunraj Nair, that decision was allowed to stand as it was of no consequence anyway. And now since Valencia/Nair is the team in the Finals of the Monk Memorial Tournament, they benefit from La's withdrawal (which is most unfortunate for Tom's partner, William Bobila) as Edgar and Arun are now the 2018 Monk Memorial Champs! This makes them the New # 2 Ranked Team in the Doubles Division as well as the Top Contenders entitled to the next shot at the GTA Doubles Championship currently held by Nick Caputo and Ryan Pienciak.
Again, it would be unfair to allow someone new to come in to take La's place as Bobila's partner and step right into a Final that everyone else had to earn their way into...so this is the only appropriate course of action to take.
Tom La was also committed to be involved in an East-West Challenge Singles Match against Arthur Fontanilla. Since that is a series of separate matches and not an ongoing tournament of advancement/progression, substitutions are allowed in that situation. Tim Nguyen and Rich Liu have already given their stamp of approval for such a substitution, but we are still waiting to hear back from the Team Captain for Team East, Keith Lewkowitz. Also, Nguyen feels it would be appropriate to consult with Fontanilla as well. We will have more on this situation as it develops. It would be unfortunate for Team West to have to lose a point (especially with the EWC series so closely contested at this point) due to an injury.
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