[ColoradoTree]

so what was the big Hauger post-loss celebration about? I doubt it was celebrating the privilege of getting to play on the revered Cardinal courts

Beats me. I turned it to that court and they looked to be at the net having a discussion with the chair umpire. After the discussion ended, Lampl slowly walked across the court to pick up something, seemingly dejected, while Hauger walked to her coach and gave him a high five. Maybe Lampl had been chastised for excessive celebration or something? 

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Good news, folks. The guys who do the play-by-play for Stanford's home dual matches will do play-by-play for this match, so starting at 11am, you can tune in and get some decent coverage with the video!  And the Stanford/Ole Miss men's match (the last dual at Taube last year) has had its scores wiped from the site, so perhaps that means we'll get live scoring of this one, too.  Not sure if that'll extend to the doubles final, but I'm guessing the play-by-play guys will keep one eye on that match, too.  

Link here: http://streamingtennis.com/Cardinal/index.html

I'm really happy for Caroline that she's in this position. She had a slight edge over Lord her freshman year, but Lord overtook her sophomore year and hasn't looked back, but if Caroline can become even more of a force at the #3 spot in the lineup, then look out. 

My same rationale from the semi holds for the final, I suppose--I want our best players to play like it--but I can't be unhappy with Lampl looking like she's taken a leap in her senior year. In this tournament, she's knocked off the #9 and #34 players in the country, and she's about to play #10.  (I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure beating Fung counts as her best win of her college career, rankings-wise.) Meanwhile, Gordon is going to be playing a good player (Lampl is #47 right now, after all) for whom everything is going right. If Caroline keeps that momentum going, I'll be really interested to see how her passionate, high-energy style affects Michaela and her more even-keel on-court persona.

Over for the doubles final, Cal's win in the semi over Oregon makes things nice and simple. From a conference perspective, Madurawe/Yee winning isn't helpful, because that pair won't go to Fall Nationals, and it'll merely open up another at-large spot rather than go to the runner-up, so it'll likely mean less Pac-12 representation at that tournament (which, in turn, affects how good our conference's teams are believed to be, influencing early team rankings). And the tennis world already knows Stanford is really good, as demonstrated by four singles entrants and two doubles teams at Fall Nationals already, and the national championship trophy we just won, and our inevitable preseason #1 ranking. So, you could argue that improved perception of our Pac-12 challengers would be better for us in terms of strength of schedule and all that than winning this title. (I'm not saying I would have been rooting for us to lose--far from it--but this would have been a silver lining if we'd lost.) But we've got two Cal Bears across the net, so we don't need to think about anything other than that. And really, titles matter. Always. The idea that we're a resurgent doubles power that can win regional doubles titles with a team of two players who won't crack the singles lineup is very pleasing.

[ColoradoTree]

so what was the big Hauger post-loss celebration about? I doubt it was celebrating the privilege of getting to play on the revered Cardinal courts

Beats me. I turned it to that court and they looked to be at the net having a discussion with the chair umpire. After the discussion ended, Lampl slowly walked across the court to pick up something, seemingly dejected, while Hauger walked to her coach and gave him a high five. Maybe Lampl had been chastised for excessive celebration or something? 

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Good news, folks. The guys who do the play-by-play for Stanford's home dual matches will do play-by-play for this match, so starting at 11am, you can tune in and get some decent coverage with the video!  And the Stanford/Ole Miss men's match (the last dual at Taube last year) has had its scores wiped from the site, so perhaps that means we'll get live scoring of this one, too.  Not sure if that'll extend to the doubles final, but I'm guessing the play-by-play guys will keep one eye on that match, too.  

Link here: http://streamingtennis.com/Cardinal/index.html

I'm really happy for Caroline that she's in this position. She had a slight edge over Lord her freshman year, but Lord overtook her sophomore year and hasn't looked back, but if Caroline can become even more of a force at the #3 spot in the lineup, then look out. 

My same rationale from the semi holds for the final, I suppose--I want our best players to play like it--but I can't be unhappy with Lampl looking like she's taken a leap in her senior year. In this tournament, she's knocked off the #9 and #34 players in the country, and she's about to play #10.  (I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure beating Fung counts as her best win of her college career, rankings-wise.) Meanwhile, Gordon is going to be playing a good player (Lampl is #47 right now, after all) for whom everything is going right. If Caroline keeps that momentum going, I'll be really interested to see how her passionate, high-energy style affects Michaela and her more even-keel on-court persona.

Over for the doubles final, Cal's win in the semi over Oregon makes things nice and simple. From a conference perspective, Madurawe/Yee winning isn't helpful, because that pair won't go to Fall Nationals, and it'll merely open up another at-large spot rather than go to the runner-up, so it'll likely mean less Pac-12 representation at that tournament (which, in turn, affects how good our conference's teams are believed to be, influencing early team rankings). And the tennis world already knows Stanford is really good, as demonstrated by four singles entrants and two doubles teams at Fall Nationals already, and the national championship trophy we just won, and our inevitable preseason #1 ranking. So, you could argue that improved perception of our Pac-12 challengers would be better for us in terms of strength of schedule and all that than winning this title. (I'm not saying I would have been rooting for us to lose--far from it--but this would have been a silver lining if we'd lost.) But we've got two Cal Bears across the net, so we don't need to think about anything other than that. And really, titles matter. Always. The idea that we're a resurgent doubles power that can win regional doubles titles with a team of two players who won't crack the singles lineup is very pleasing.