most frustrating part of playing USTA leagues?

[Lex]

...always having to play league matches on Sundays.

Why not on Saturday???

[OrangePower]

Originally Posted by Lex

...always having to play league matches on Sundays.

Why not on Saturday???

In my area (NorCal) home teams get to pick the date/time for matches... so it's all over the place... we have some matches on Sat, some on Sun, and some on weeknights, all depending on the home team's court availability.

[Delano]

Originally Posted by d wayne

Worst part for me was playing #2 singles, fighting rush hour traffic to get to the courts and the other team forfeits the #2 singles spot- I end up taking a default win & hitting with our captain for a little while- could have played a match closer to home with friends with no hassles. This happened twice in 1 season- I decided then I would rather play a few tournaments rather than play league tennis

I agree, this is the worst thing about league. No show defaults are taken very seriously in tournaments (I think in norcal it earns you an immediate 30 day suspension and 8 of 10 points toward a year suspension). But in league, a "no show" default isn't penalized any worse than a default announced well in advance, so there's an incentive to wait until the last minute to default a line!

[TennisCJC]

Originally Posted by Orange

Our local rules specifically provide that players do not have to be listed in order of strength, so there is no such thing as stacking here. However, captains tend to put the worst player for each match on the bottom line because that is the line that would be defaulted if the other team defaults.

The most frustrating part that I observe is the vast difference in skill levels among self-rated players (i.e., some players who play two levels are winning by a wide margin at the higher level), which is perpetuated by the fact that only spring leagues count toward ratings. As a result, players can play summer and fall leagues only, win consistently and continue to be self-rated at the lower level year after year.

Self-rating is a bit of a joke. We won the city at 4.0 a few years ago with 2 kids playing singles. They were both between 23-25 years old and right out a Div 3 tennis program. They didn't lose thru regular season and playoffs.

We had 4 players bumped to 4.5 that season - the kids plus 2 others.

Funny thing is the team we beat in the city finals had 7 players bumped to 4.5 and their 1 singles was about 25 years old and had been a junior national champion in Brazil.

I was not the captain and had nothing to do with bringing the kids on to the team but lots of our opposition complained. One of the kids was DQed for the state finals.

[cknobman]

Originally Posted by MesQueUnClub

2) 40+ women who after sending their kids to college, joins a country club and takes a few lessons and start creating threads on this forum on a daily basis.

Wow, cant help but think this was posted directly at someone.