schmke
Legend
I don't believe we've seen four 4-0 teams in the semis until today. The 55 & Over 9.0 women has SoCal, Hawaii, NorCal, and Texas all 4-0.
And probably not that big a deal, but for seeding the semi-finalists the tie-breaker the USTA uses probably has the top 2 teams in the wrong order.
SoCal and Hawaii were both 4-0 / 10-2, so it goes to sets lost and each lost 5. Then despite Hawaii winning one more set than SoCal (22 vs 21) and winning more games than SoCal (142 to 139) and having a larger games won/lost differential (41 to 39), because SoCal lost one fewer game (80 vs 81), SoCal gets the #1 seed.
As a result, Hawaii has to play the slightly stronger NorCal team, although Texas is also very good.
And probably not that big a deal, but for seeding the semi-finalists the tie-breaker the USTA uses probably has the top 2 teams in the wrong order.
SoCal and Hawaii were both 4-0 / 10-2, so it goes to sets lost and each lost 5. Then despite Hawaii winning one more set than SoCal (22 vs 21) and winning more games than SoCal (142 to 139) and having a larger games won/lost differential (41 to 39), because SoCal lost one fewer game (80 vs 81), SoCal gets the #1 seed.
As a result, Hawaii has to play the slightly stronger NorCal team, although Texas is also very good.