Player Feature : Greg Johnson, Denver, CO

Name : Greg Johnson.

City : Denver, CO.

Member since : August, 2010.

Originally from : Philadelphia, PA.

Education : BS, Computer Science, Univ. of DE.

Profession : Database Architect.

Favorite Band : Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Inventions

Favorite Movie : Goodfellas

Playing Tennis since : 20 years... but not with regularity.

Best result : Winner - Fall 2010 doubles league.

I like Flexible Tennis League because : Flexible Tennis League gave me a way to fill my calendar with matches around Denver, and meet some colorful people. Plus, I lost 20 pounds in 2 months!

Things you may not know about me : I can juggle. My left leg is 1" longer than my right. I have a severe underbite which is unsightly, but allows me to whistle louder than anyone you've ever heard.

We will be featuring a new member each week. Please share your info with us - send an email to admin[at]flexibletennisleague[dot]com. We love hearing you feedback. Let us know what you think about this feature.

Fall 2010 Doubles Playoffs

Flexible Tennis League's Fall 2010 doubles playoffs were held at Utah Park on Sunday, October 25th. A total of 5 teams were in contention for the playoffs. Due to the odd number of teams Clinton/Jenkins had to play a qualifying match against Stahle/Stahle which they won 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.

Thank you Epic Autos for sponsoring the prizes!!

We used the Pro-Set format for the playoff matches, where the first team that wins 10 games with a difference of 2 takes the match. The first match of the day saw Clinton/Jenkins take on the top seeds McAree/McAree. After a tough contest McAree/McAree took the match 10 - 5.

In the second match of the day, team Xie/Johnson battled past Cagle/Hunt 10-7. Xie/Johnson were up 7-3 at one point but Cagle/Hunt fought back hard but fell short.

The final match between Xie/Johnson and McAree/McAree was a closely contested one, with both teams holding serve until the 14th game of the match. Xie/Johnson broke serve to go up 8-6 and eventually serve out the match.

Epic Autos Colorado sponsored Tennis gift baskets for both the winners and the runner ups. Thank you Epic Autos.

Greg Johnson and Michael Xie - The Winners!!

Chris and Andrew McAree - the runner ups!!

Thank you every one for signing up and playing actively in the league. Singles playoffs are scheduled for Sunday, October 31st. View more pictures from the Doubles playoffs below:

Fall Doubles Playoffs

Fall league Playoffs

We've had a great Fall season so far. More than 100 matches have been played by over 60 members all across the Denver Metro - our best ever. Thank you for making it such a successfull season!!

The Fall Playoffs start on Sunday October 23rd. We will be using the USTA Pro-Set format where the first team to win 10 games with a difference of 2 (ex: 10-8) takes the match. In case of a tie the winner will be decided by a conventional Tie-breaker.

Epic Autos Colorado will be sponsoring prizes for this season's winner. Thank you Epic Autos.

Doubles Playoffs will be held at Utah Park on Sunday October 23rd starting at 9:30 AM. The doubles draws are as follows:

The Singles Playoffs will be held at Utah Park on Sunday, October 31st starting at 9:30 AM. The Singles draws are as follows:

Congratulations to all those who made it to the Playoffs. A BIG THANK YOU to all those who participated in the Fall league.

Winter League Survey

Thank you for taking the time to fill out our Winter League survey and sharing your opinion and expressing an interest in having a league during the Winter. An overwhelming majority indicated that they would like to play actively during the winter using a combination of public outdoor and private indoor facilities.

The next step for us it to find a facility that will let our members play indoors for a reasonable price. We will keep you posted on our progress. Here are the results of the survey:

Here are some comments we received about suggestions for the Winter league:

• I don't drive (I take light rail), so it would kind of depend on where the indoor facilities are. I'm definitely interest though.
• Greenwood Athletic Club, South Suburban Bubble
• My suggestion would be to approach an indoor facitily and find out when their off-times are (when they have the least amount of play) and how many courts they would be willing to offer us to play and for how long for how much...Then we contract to purchase those times and dates and have a process for people to schedule when they will play there matches...or have the matches assigned...show up and play when your scheduled date/time is...like a round robin tournament style so courts have assigned players to ensure use of the courts. Then everyone can know how much the cost of the league will be by person (cost of courts per day times number of dedicated days divided by number of players in the winter league). Play most likely available on weekend nights or weekday nights like 8PM to 10PM.
• Personally I don't think that an indoor facility is 100% necessary. During the winter in Colorado there are many days when the weather permits for outdoor tennis, it might be a little chillier than usual but players would just have to find the right days to play.
• It would be great to see more women get involved but I am at a loss as to how to get more women players. I will keep you posted if I can think of anything. For now it will probably have to be word of mouth or CL (that's were I found the FTL). I think it would be great to be able to play mixed singles too if no women are available. It's not really clear if that is acceptable for the FTL or not. :-)
• Winter League! Do it!
• It needs to be a longer season to better facilitate the limited playing opportunities. Maybe Nov-March.
• Do it, it would be a blast.

Thank you once again!!