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It is late August, which means PNW Sectionals for the 18 & Over and 40 & Over divisions have been played, so it is time to take a lo...

It is late August, which means PNW Sectionals for the 18 & Over and 40 & Over divisions have been played, so it is time to take a lo...

This is a busy time of year for USTA League tennis as the current year has a flurry of playoffs, Districts, States, and Sectionals, and in t...

A few weeks ago, the league coordinators in the Northern Oregon (Portland) and Northwest Washington (Seattle) areas sent out a survey on the...

The past two weekends saw the Seattle area 40 & Over local playoffs take place.  While the National format for 40 & Over has gone ba...

The Pacific Northwest section held their 18 & Over Sectionals two weeks ago and Seattle area teams romped and are sending the Section...

The 18 & Over Sectionals for Pacific Northwest were held this weekend, and remarkably the Seattle area teams (Northwest Washington) pull...

Each year when USTA League regulations are published, I review for changes and share what I see on my blog .  I don't read every section...

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know I live in the Seattle area and thus play in the Pacific Northwest section of the USTA.  Pla...

The Pacific Northwest section held their 40 & Over Sectionals this past weekend and the Northwest Washington (Seattle) district had a go...

The saga of the USTA's technology challenges as it relates to leagues and tournaments seems to be continuing. Local playoffs for the 40 ...

Back in early December, the Pacific Northwest section of the USTA announced that leagues scheduled to begin in January would be posted until...

In my section (Pacific Northwest), our Winter leagues start right away in the new year, generally the first or second weekend of January. Un...

Earlier this week, amid increasing COVID-19 numbers, the State of Washington Governor's office reintroduced restrictions on various indo...

Local playoffs for the Seattle area 55 & Over league were played this past weekend and were the first to use a new playoff format  that ...

In many of the districts in the Pacific Northwest section, several leagues are played in the Fall as Early Start Leagues.  In Seattle, these...

Before COVID-19 ended our 40 & Over season in the Seattle area, we were working our way towards a new local playoff format . I wrote muc...

USTA League has resumed in nearly all sections to varying degrees, but with no Nationals this year the majority of play is essentially j...

Most areas in the country a re beginning to reopen, and with that USTA sections are laying out plans for resuming USTA League play. In m...

There was a lot of angst and discussion about USTA National's move to a 4-court format for 40 & Over in 2020 and most sections fo...