The MIAA loved its preliminary statewide tennis event championship expertise at MIT a lot final 12 months that it’s hoping for a return engagement.
At Tuesday morning’s temporary MIAA Tennis Committee assembly, MIAA affiliate govt director Richard Pearson made it very clear that the affiliation needs to return to the duPont Tennis Courts once more.
“It was a very positive experience for everyone, MIT is very interested in having us there,” Pearson stated. “We were very happy with everything, the stands, the courts, the whole kit and kaboodle. We hope to finalize things soon and we should be good.”
While every part was upbeat on the state closing entrance, the identical couldn’t be stated for the person tennis event. Barring an unlikely change of occasions, it seems as if there gained’t be a person occasion for not less than yet another 12 months.
Unlike different hybrid sports activities which may use timed performances (swimming and observe) so as to run particular person occasions of this nature, there appears to be a difficulty as as to if tennis can do the identical. Sharon athletic director and committee member Nick Schlierf expressed hope that someplace down the highway a University Tennis Rating (UTR) system or one thing else can be utilized to rank particular person gamers.
Needless to say, many native tennis coaches have been lower than happy with the latest information. Andover ladies tennis coach Alan Hibino feels there isn’t a cause why the person event can’t be restored instantly. Among the factors he introduced up have been the potential for utilizing the sectional mode and if that’s not acceptable, making a committee of coaches who would rank the gamers utilizing totally different metrics (UTR, face to face matchups, season information).
He additionally talked about the truth that many elite gamers on first rate groups seemed on the state people as their Super Bowl. Without a person event, a lot of them are selecting to not play.
“The infrastructure is in place, the venues are secure, the coaches and players are overwhelmingly in favor of it,” Hibino stated. “The coaches would organize and run the tournament for the MIAA. All they have to do is ask us or let us help.”
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