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The primary USTA League Adult Sectionals are complete in the PNW and someone brought to my attention a player that was disqualified at the 4...

We are in the heart of 2026 USTA League season with leagues in many areas in full flight and some districts are getting ready for playoffs, ...

The USTA has published the 2026 USTA League Regulations  and while there are not a lot of changes, there is an important one for players tha...

In 2022 at Florida 18 & Over Mixed Sectionals , a disaster happened where two undefeated teams were sent home  in the 9.0 flight.  Might...

I wrote several months ago that the SoCal section appeared to be running their Sectionals using an unflighted round-robin format that was b...

It is only May, 2024, but the 2025 USTA League Regulations are already having to be prepared as there are 2025 leagues starting already with...

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...

For my first post of 2024, I thought I'd take a look at how things are playing out with the court format in the 40 & Over division. ...

We've had three weekends of play at Nationals where the 40 & Over division has had events, and with the 4-court format used for 40 ...

The USTA has been using an un-flighted round-robin format at Nationals for a number of years now, and for regular readers of my blog, you k...

Ever since the new format for USTA League Nationals came out, I've written about the possibility of more than four undefeated teams lead...

Getting to Nationals is hard, particularly if you follow the rules.  To get there you need players at the very top of your level, and frankl...

The first two weekends of 2023 USTA League Nationals has found more or less the same team winning two events (18 & Over and 40 & O...

For those that play USTA League, it is pretty well known that new players, and those with expired ratings or a few other scenarios, are requ...

I wrote last week about what appears to be a change back to a 5-court format for the 2024 season of 40 & Over USTA League play, albeit ...