Ok so now that district has been all said and done...how about some predictions for regionals?
You can go to
http://www.texashighschooltennis.com/district08.html to get a complete list of regional qualifiers.
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As far as 3A region 2 I think the most interesting draw will be the Girls Doubles draw. There really aren't any "powerhouses" or easy favorites here, however there are SEVERAL solid teams that are all very very close to the same level. I've seen a lot of these teams play this year and our top girls dubs team (PG) has played extremely close matches with a lot of the teams that will be favored at regionals, losing most in tiebreakers or close prosets with a 6-8 score. I also think the rest of the top girls dubs teams have had flip flopped results with different opponents. This seeding process will be interesting and unpredictable, and although there are only 4 "seeds" I believe there will be a few dark horses in this draw that could easily upset any of these teams. Athens, Kaufman, Spring Hill and Wills Point I expect will be the favorites. PG, Wakeland, WP #2, Kaufman #2....all of these teams will be very capable of upsetting. It will very well come down to the mental game of these doubles players because physically I don't think there is one team that is just so much greater than the other.
Mixed is always fun to watch in our region. Spring Hill should be the easy favorite here, with Van, Wills Point, LE, and maybe Wakeland in the mix. I wasn't too impressed with Van's team myself, Natalie is an excellent doubles player it just seems like they should have put her with a better guy? Who knows though...Van has a way of always suprising us. WP has a very solid doubles team as well, however they did lose a tiebreaker to LE which could put LE in a seeded position...that is if they have seeding information sent in. LE's team could be capable of beating any of these teams but the guy can be an extreme mental case and that has cost him every year at regionals.
I don't know much about boys though...I suppose the pack kid could help me out?
Oh..and girls singles. I expect
seeds to look something like 1) Liberty 2) PG 3) Van Alstyne 4) Bullard. Commerce has a girl that might could manage a 4 seed.