The first 2021 USTA Nationals event is just 16 days away!

Are you ready for USTA League Nationals?  I hope so, because the first matches will be played in just 16 days on October 1st in Arizona and Oklahoma City with the 18 & Over 3.0, 3.5, and 5.0 levels all playing.

With the events so close, you'd hope the USTA would be publishing schedules, teams, and other information soon, and they finally are.  They began sending schedules out to captains last week, but the Nationals site wasn't updated until the past day or so when the "Event Schedule" links went live for all of the 18 & Over and 40 & Over events.  The 55 & Over and Mixed events all still say coming soon.

So, if you are going, or just interested in the match-ups, you can now see which sections play which other sections for all of the 18/40 events.  Alas, these event schedules don't show the actual teams, those will show up on TennisLink, and as of this morning, only a few Tri-Level and 55 & Over events showed up there, and with just a few teams, but checking right now, more are showing up, specially 18 & Over 2.5W, 3.0, and 5.0 show up, although I did not check each for completeness.  Regardless, things are ramping up!

I have a backlog of report requests waiting for the teams to be identified, so I'll have a busy few days coming up, but that doesn't mean it is too late to request reports as I can do reports for teams to help them scout and plan their line-ups right up to the start of, and even during, the events.

Reports include flight reports giving a great summary of the teams and how they compare and run their line-ups out, team reports with details on each player and all the doubles pairings, and a simulation report predicting what records each team is most likely to have through round-robin play.

I already worked with double digits of teams that won Sectionals and are headed to Nationals, contact me if you want to add your team to those going to Nationals similarly equipped!