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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Just another one of those "this is sooooo different than what I'm used to in Georgia" comment
Singles championships were discontinued here 30 years ago. It's been strictly team titles (in GHSA) since 1995. And I think the Best of 5 (3 singles + 2 doubles) format has been consistent throughout that time.
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Wow, okay. Yeah, Colorado does both an individual tournament and then added a team tournament. Obviously Oregon still crowns an individual state champion in singles & doubles and then uses the points from those state tournaments to crown the team champion, so it's possible here to play your own teammate for the state title.
I don't imagine a world where we'd be able to get enough momentum to get rid of the state singles/doubles tournaments, because there are so many schools that aren't competitive in team tennis who use that for their 1 or 2 kids who are good enough to represent the school. I think this is just a vestige of the western states being relatively rural and very spread out.
New Jersey has an individual tournament separate from the team state tournament that happens over two weeks and is like 128+ players or something, but there you can only qualify your top singles & doubles pairing (though occasionally, a school that's deep like newark academy can send another player)
I would actually like it here if we only had 1 singles/1 doubles at state and only the district champs & finalists in the bracket, in 6A that'd be just 16 singles & 16 doubles, in 5A it's be just 8 and 4A we'd only have 10 and the whole thing could be done in a day.
There are instances where unseeded kids run the table, but I don't know of too many situations where a kid finishing 3rd in their District somehow comes back a week and goes on a heater through the whole bracket and wins it all, so no real need to include them.
Needless to say, they haven't put me in charge yet though.