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Ranking Changes for 2008.  The number of tournaments counting towards national rankings in 2008 as been reduced from six to five singles tournaments, from six to five individual doubles tournaments, and from six to four team doubles tournaments.

Standings don't determine Seeding.  PPR points earned just are not a good predictor of outcomes.   Wins and losses combined with indirect results (how your opponents fared against others) is the proper way to determine seeding.  Strength of opposition counts more than points.

Find inexpensive (and sometimes free) Housing.  A new Find Housing link has been added to the For Players section on the left menu. 

Intersectionals will be held in Arlington TX on November 20-23.  Category II points will be awarded per this schedule.  Click here for more information.

Closing singles and doubles draws simultaneously.  This has been a successful practice for many Nationals — made possible by the Internet.  For TDs, it amounts to substituting pre-draw telephone calls for the outdated practice of pairing, designating seeds, scheduling and informing players (on a hectic first day).  The keys to success are (a) interested players must enter the doubles and (b) TDs must work pro-actively before entries close or the draws are made to put the unpartnered players in contact with each other.  There are several benefits:  out-of-section players can optimize travel and hotel costs and local players can manage their non-tournament activities.  Additionally, a handful of doubles matches can be played on opening day (to reduce draws to 16 or 32) resulting in shorter hotel stays and reduced interference with consolations.  Early closing for doubles draws?  When done well, it works for everyone — and it's now required at World Championships.

Wheeling-Oglebay Cat II will be held again in 2009.  Jack Dorsey confirms that, contrary to rumors, the tournament will continue next year.

 

2008 Category I National Results

Irvine CA, June 16-22 (65 & 70 Hard)

Seeding was accurate as favorites prevailed in both divisions.  Jimmy Parker doubled up once again in the 65s.  Top seed Parker dispatched #3 Rudy Hernando 6-3,6-3 in the semis and followed it up with a convincing win over surprise finalist C. Raymond Lake 6-1,6-2.  Parker cruised through the tournament winning five matches losing a total of only 18 games while Lake had benefited from three walkovers.  Parker & Ken Robinson survived a first-set semi-final loss before defeating Michael Stewart & Dean Corley 5-7,6-2,6-3 and then wrapping up the championship with a decisive finals win over Hernando & George Sarantos 6-2,6-1.  Hernando & Sarantos had edged David Bird & Robert Jones 6-3,7-5.

Fred Farzanegan continued his winning ways as a new 70 with five convincing wins (and no lost sets).  Farzanegan, seeded second, bested Neil Hurlbut 6-3,1-0,ret(ill) in the semis and again dominated top seed Bob Duesler 6-1,6-2 in the final.  Duesler had topped #9 Art Wahl 6-2,6-1.  Wahl had ousted #4 Larry Sears 6-2,6-4 in the quarter-finals.  In the 70 doubles fifth seeds Farzanegan & Don Biedinger topped Thurston Barnett & Bill Ulmer 6-3,6-1 in the semis and then pushed perennial winners Duesler & Jim Nelson — to no avail.  Duesler & Nelson bested Roy Anderson & Gordy Nichol 6-1,6-4 in the semis and then triumphed again in the final over Farzanegan & Biedinger 6-2,3-6,6-3.  Barnett & Ulmer barely won the third-place playoff over Anderson & Nichol 7-5,6-7,7-6 and thus consolidated their reputation for winning nail-biters following their run to the Indoor finals in March.

Complete Results

 

Rancho Santa Fe CA, May 19-24 (75, 80 & 85 Hard)

Form went out the window in the 75s as 9th seeded Saul Snyder won four consecutive matches against higher seeds to gain the gold ball.  Snyder ousted #2 Chuck Devoe 6-3,6-3 then #5 Jim Perley 3-6,6-4,6-3 then #4 Marvin Brown 6-4,7-5 and, finally, #5 Roger Hing 3-6-6-2,6-4.  Hing had narrowly defeated Tom Springer 6-3,4-6,6-4 and then barely overcame #5 David Rothgaber 2-6,7-6,7-6.  Top seed George McCabe fell in his first match to unseeded Neil McDonald 7-6,6-4.  It was a heck of a doubles event except that the final was unplayed!  Go figure.  Form prevailed (until then) as top seeds George McCabe & Jack Vredevelt bested #4 Bob Isenberg & Chuck Nelson 6-3,6-1 while #2 Dick Doss & John Powless dispatched #3 Chuck Devoe & Jerry Thomas 6-2,6-3.

Form held in the 80s as the top four seeds met in the semi-finals where #2 Clem Hopp emerged with the gold ball besting #1 Graydon Nichols 6-2,1-6,6-4.  Hopp had defeated Hugh Stewart 6-1,ret(inj) while Nichols bested Jason Morton 2-6,6-2,6-4.  Nichols & Stewart gained a measure of revenge in the doubles final overcoming Hopp & Morton 6-4,6-0.  Hopp & Morton had defeated Bob Chapman & Don Tully 6-4,6-1 as Nichols & Stewart were ousting Lee Glouner & Jack Graham 7-5,6-4.

Bob Sherman caught up with doubles partner Marvin Henderson in the 85 singles and won yet another pair of gold balls.  Sherman topped #4 Ed Selfe 7-5,6-3 in the semis and then Henderson 6-3,6-3 in the final.  Henderson had outlasted Edwin Tyler 4-6,6-1,6-1.   Henderson & Sherman won the doubles with wins over Dyle Anderson & Don Tobey 1-6,6-1,6-1 and George Druliner & Tyler 7-6,6-4.  Druliner & Tyler had bested Jim Carleton & Ken Kayes 6-3,6-1.

Complete Results

 

Vancouver WA, May 6-10 (80, 85 & 90 Indoors)

Jason Morton rebounded from a couple of down years to win two gold balls in the 80s.  Marvin Henderson continued his singles mastery in the 85 Indoors while Alex Swetka dominated the 90s once again.

In the 80s, Morton bested Roald Flater 2-6,6-4,6-0 in the semis and then surprise finalist Lou Wick 4-6,6-3,6-2.  The unseeded Wick has a terrific run ousting top seed Clem Hopp 6-3,7-5 in the quarters and Hugh Stewart 6-3,6-2 in the semis.  Hopp & Morton combined to win the doubles defeating Vernon Larson & Earl Schalin 6-3,4-6,6-4 and Raymond Stange & Wick 6-1,6-2 in the final.  Stange & Wick had ousted Dick Land & Joe Pitts 6-1,6-1.

In the 85s, Henderson bested unseeded Melvin Brown 6-1,6-2 in the semis and then unseeded Don Tobey 6-4,7-6 in the final.  Tobey had outlasted Bob Sherman 5-7,7-5,6-1.  Two unseeded teams met in the doubles final where Jim Carleton & Ken Hayes defeated Dyle Anderson & Tobey 4-6,6-4,6-3.  Carleton & Hayes had topped second seeds Ted Heisler & W.T. Mathes 6-1,3-6,6-2 while Anderson & Tobey had bested top seeds Henderson & Sherman.

In the 90s, Swetka doubled up winning three singles matches with the loss of only three games!  Swetka bested Tracy Strong 6-0,6-1 in the semis and then unseeded Ed Osgood 6-1,6-1.  Osgood had bested Thomas Whitlow 6-0,7-6(4).  Bob Mix & Swetka dominated the doubles defeating Walter Ralphs & Whitlow 6-0,6-1 in the semis and then top seeds Barrett Scallet & Norman Stoll 6-3,6-0 in the final.  Scallet & Stoll had squeaked by Gardner Gray & Osgood 7-5,7-6(7).

Complete Results

 

Boise ID, May 5-10 (55 Indoors)

Top seed Phil Landauer won both gold balls with a series of narrow wins in the singles and dominating wins in doubles.  Landauer topped Carl Sechen 2-6,6-1,6-4, Geoff Cykman 2-6,6-3,7-6(4) and then Bill Roach 7-5,6-0 to win the singles title.  Landauer & Tom Smith garnered the doubles gold ball by winning all three of their matches by the same 6-2,6-2 score:  Wesley Jackson & Pete Kelly in the semis and then Cykman & Andrew Stanley in the final.

Complete Results

 

New Orleans LA, April 7-13 (65 Clay)

Top seed Jimmy Parker doubled up with a dominating performance in the singles.  Parker, seeded number one, won his first five matches with the loss of only ten games (total).  He bested William Simon 6-1,6-1 in the semis and then had to go all out to defeat third seed Joe Bachman 6-4,7-5 in the final.  Bachman had bested second seed Fred Drilling 6-2,6-4.  Parker & Ken Robinson cruised to victory in the doubles losing only seven games in the eight sets they won.  Parker & Robinson defeated the unseeded team of George Balch & Peter Smith 5-7,6-0,6-1 (quarters), then Ted Hoehn & Leland Housman 6-2,6-1 (semis) and then Drilling & Ray Lake 6-1,6-2 (finals).  Drilling & Lake had ousted the third seeded team of Dean Corley & Michael Stewart 6-4,6-2.

Complete Results

 

Rancho Mirage CA, April 7-13 (60 & 90 Hard)

Top seed Brian Cheney garnered another gold ball with a narrow win in the 60 singles over second seed Hugh Thomson 7-5,3-6,7-6.  Oddly, Thomson had bested Terry Ehlers by the same score in the semi-finals while Cheney had won the last eight games to oust Bob Litwin 7-5,6-0.  Brothers David & Dan Bohannon triumphed in the 60 doubles by dint of three consecutive perilous wins:  Daud Ahmed & Richard Johnson 6-2,4-6,7-6 (quarters), Litwin & Neal Newman 6-1,6-7,7-5 (semis) and unseeded Laurence Hammel & Stuart Malin 6-2,4-6,6-2 (finals).  Hammel & Stuart had enjoyed an injury walkover over the team of Brent Abel & Charles Hoeveler in the semis.

Alex Swetka continued his winning ways in the 90s.  Swetka bageled Edmundo Giffoni 6-0,6-0 in the semis and then defeated Fererico Barbaza (score not given) in the final.  Swetka & Robert Mix won the doubles with wins over Barrett Scallet & Norman Stoll 7-5,6-1 and then over Barbaza & Giffoni 7-6,6-4.  Barbaza & Giffoni had crushed Tracy Strong & Jim Talman 6-0,6-0.

Complete Results

 

Houston TX, March 24-29 (70 & 75 Indoors)

Fred Farzanegan introduced himself to the 70s with a splash by winning the gold ball with convincing wins over Bob Duesler 6-4,6-1 and Herman Ahlers 6-4,3-6,6-1.  Ahlers had defeated Courtney Henderson 6-3,6-0 in the semis.  In the 70 doubles Duesler & Jim Nelson once again prevailed handily while losing only twelve games (and no sets) in four matches.  They topped Lee Hamilton & Henderson 6-3,6-0 in the semis and then surprise finalists Thurston Barnett & Bill Ulmer 6-1,6-1.  Barnett & Ulmer had surprised second seeds Neil Hurlbut & Bill Hyde 4-6,7-5,7-5 in the opening round and then Greg Kohles & Chuck Nelson 6-4,3-6,6-4 in the semis.

George McCabe had an outstanding tournament in the 75s by winning both the singles and doubles titles.  Overall McCabe won eight matches without the loss of a set.  In singles McCabe bested Scott Denison 6-4,6-4 in the semis and then Chuck Devoe 7-5,7-5 in the final.  Devoe had defeated 2007 winner Tom Springer 6-2,6-4 in the semis.  McCabe & Jack Vredevelt won the doubles with a semi-final win over the unseeded team of Roger Gruggett & Richard Haskell 7-6(5),6-2 and a final win over second seeds Devoe & Russell Seymour 6-3,6-3.  Devoe & Seymour had edged out Bob Isenberg & Chuck Nelson 6-2,1-6,7-5 in their semi-final match.

Complete Results

 

 

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