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!!

Fall mixer update

Flexible Tennis League's Fall mixer got under way at 9 AM on 09/19 at the Utah Park Tennis courts. We had an impressive turn out, our biggest so far. After the initial intro's and a bit of socializing, the players picked out numbers randomly and split into 6 doubles teams. Each team played round-robin style 10 point tie-breakers against the others, leading up to semi-finals and then a final.

Hilaria Davis and Vamsee Konda won the competition. All the players that were present received prizes/discount cards from GolfSmith Tennis. Please checkout photos from the event below.

Fall 2010 Mixer

It was great to meet the new members and catch up with others who have been with the league for a while. Hopefully this will make it easier for our players to schedule and play matches, now that they are familiar with some of the players in the league. We thank all those who participated in the event - it was a lot of fun !! We will try to do another one before the Winter sets in :-(

Denver Fall Mixer

Hope you are making full use of the last few weeks of the warm weather. We've had more than 10 matches played in the last week alone and more are along the way in the following weeks. To make things more interesting, we will be hosting the Fall mixer on Sunday, September 19th from 9 AM to 12 PM at the Utah Park Tennis courts.

We will provide the fun and refreshments. You only need to bring your gear and a can of balls. This is your opportunity to meet other league members, participate in short format games and win prizes! A donation of $5 is requested to cover expenses. Please RSVP by sending an email to admin[at]flexibletennisleague[dot]com no later than September 17th so that we may make the proper arrangements.

Fall League Survey

In our constant quest to make the Flexible Tennis League - the best flexible league ever, we asked our members to take a survey. A big thank you to all those who responded and provided some valuable comments. Here are the responses we received.

4 people said that they might be interested in contirbuting to our blog and facebook page. Please send us an email so that we can set you up with proper access to our blog and Facebook pages.

We received some other interesting reponses on how to improve the league and the website:

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  "maybe be connected w/meetup.com in some way."
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  "Include an availability matrix so that we can see who has open time that matches our own. Would make practice and matches easier to coordinate."
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  "The Website is very good the way it is. I see nothing wrong with it."
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  "FTL is working great so far! Got regular matches 2x/week since signing up, and playing a one-off tonight with a new partner!"

James Jeckoy is the Summer league Champ

James Jeckoy defeated Duane Cagle 7-5, 6-2 at Utah Park on 08/02 to win the Summer 2010 singles league. James started the match cautiously watching his opponent's moves and getting the ball back in consistently. Duane broke James' serve in the first set and was threatening to take it away - he actually was serving for it. But James broke back when it mattered and went on to win the first set.

James had seen enough of Duane's game by then and he started playing his more flashier style of Tennis which many admire in the league. It was all James in the second set - serving hard and punishing short balls. He took the second set 6-2.

At the end of the season James' enviable record stands at 10W - 1L. Duane had a pretty good season too until the final - he ended the season with 16W - 6L.

James Jeckoy - Summer 2010 Champ.

We had a great Summer season with over 100 matches played by more than 35 players from all over the Denver metro area. Thank you to all those who participated in the league and we look forward to an even better Fall season.

Fall Tennis League starts today

The Fall league starts today. It's time to get on the Tennis courts and play some serious Tennis. 49 players from all over the Denver metro have signed up so far. For the first time ever we are also starting a doubles league this season.

Doubles League

We have a full fledged doubles league this Fall with the top 8 teams going through to the playoffs. If you wish, you can play in both singles and doubles league at the same time - trying to make it as flexible as we can. If you are interested in the doubles league - login to the site, set your play preference to "Both" under your profile page and find a partner under the "Doubles League" page. Just send us an email with your partner's name and we'll do the rest.

Players from all over the Denver metro are signing up.

Click here to Sign up for our Fall league.