Our first four 4-0 teams in the semis!

schmke

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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.
 

Topaz

Legend
Speaking of mixed...schedules are starting to come out! I’m interested to read your predictions! :)
 

schmke

Legend
Speaking of mixed...schedules are starting to come out! I’m interested to read your predictions! :)
Stay tuned!

Although, Mixed is harder to predict given it is a "combo" format and the pairings are very variable and what teams use is hard to predict. So the simulations will be more based on who has the stronger players, but they may not pair them or even be able to play them all. It should still be interesting.
 
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