Congratulations to the Men’s 4.0 USTA Adult 18 & Over Wash Park Orange team who participated in Sectionals in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 9-11.  

Words from team captain Greg Hamilton:

 We ended up 1-2 with a win over Idaho & a really close loss to Nevada on Friday, and then a blow out by Utah (likely winners of nationals again) on Saturday.  We had a couple guys that wanted to play singles against Utah, but the doubles lines were all drawn out of a hat by the USTA official.  We figured we'd have some fun with it since we were out of contention and the Utah team was very good (example: their D1 team had been partners in highschool and won a 6a state championship in 2018).

Aside from tennis, we had a big airbnb with a ping pong table, pool, driveway/parking lot big enough for us to play pickleball on, and a nice lounge area with a grill.  So, we made the best of the weekend with a lot of intra-team competition.  The team is a  really fun group of guys, and we've been lucky to have had such success on court - several of us having moved up together from 3.0 and another group joining in and moving up with us at 3.5.  It'll be interesting to see what happens at the end of the year with bump ups - 4.5 would be a totally different animal! 

Team members:  Matt Whitmer, Jake Hugenberg, Tim Fitz, Chris McCarthy, Brandon Kalusa, Greg Hamilton, Jack Stanley, Chad Whitmer, Lionel Pomerantz, Ryan MacDowell, Tyler Hagnauer, Justin Weigle.