UTR Ladder Event at the National Campus in Orlando
Our latest tennis competition, at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, was exciting and particularly of interest for izzers. I brought three players who compete using the izzers Tennis Score Keeper. Each was looking forward to improving his or her UTR ranking. The National Campus has been holding monthly UTR ladder events on Fridays. The format is round robin, three matches, two sets starting at 2-All.
It was a 100 degree day in humid Orlando, so after a few games I heard the familiar "IS IT 30-All?!" that signaled score disputes were going to start once fatigue set in. One izzers Tennis ScoreKeeper player had an argumentative opponent. He was not going to just accept that she had the izzers Tennis scorekeeper on her racket and was carefully marking and calling out the score. So she used the izzers as a memory peg to memorize how the points were won as each game progressed. Quickly, the opponent realized that she was confident in her knowledge of the score, and the arguing ceased. She thanked me afterwards for the izzers and that made me so happy. The opponent said he was going to get an izzers for his racket. Yeah!
Another beautiful player with a great forehand kept asking one of my players for the score, which my player was happy to give. The player spotted the izzers Tennis ScoreKeeper and asked about it. The player's mother told me that her daughter had a learning disability that prevented her from knowing the score. She confided that lack of knowing the score was making tennis seem difficult. She is also going to try tennis with izzers now.
My daughter won all three of her round robin matches that day by a fairly large margin. That day's play improved her UTR ranking by .25 percent or so. UTR ranking is based on 60 matches, so I guess that three matches do not change the ranking by much.
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It was a 100 degree day in humid Orlando, so after a few games I heard the familiar "IS IT 30-All?!" that signaled score disputes were going to start once fatigue set in. One izzers Tennis ScoreKeeper player had an argumentative opponent. He was not going to just accept that she had the izzers Tennis scorekeeper on her racket and was carefully marking and calling out the score. So she used the izzers as a memory peg to memorize how the points were won as each game progressed. Quickly, the opponent realized that she was confident in her knowledge of the score, and the arguing ceased. She thanked me afterwards for the izzers and that made me so happy. The opponent said he was going to get an izzers for his racket. Yeah!
Another beautiful player with a great forehand kept asking one of my players for the score, which my player was happy to give. The player spotted the izzers Tennis ScoreKeeper and asked about it. The player's mother told me that her daughter had a learning disability that prevented her from knowing the score. She confided that lack of knowing the score was making tennis seem difficult. She is also going to try tennis with izzers now.
My daughter won all three of her round robin matches that day by a fairly large margin. That day's play improved her UTR ranking by .25 percent or so. UTR ranking is based on 60 matches, so I guess that three matches do not change the ranking by much.
Buy at Amazon
Buy at izzers.net
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