Glad you're back, Colorado Tree! And hopefully out women's team will bounce back this week too. Looking at our stats sheets for this season, it looks like our two trouble spots are the 2 and 3 spots in doubles (11-7 record; 8-6 record) and the 3 spot in singles (10-8 record between Geller's 0-2, Houghton's 9-6, and Xu's 1-0). Am I right in thinking Michaela Gordon's last minute decision not to come back may be the difference maker here? IIRC, she would have probably slotted in at the 3 (or either way, pushed Houghton to the 4), and was also one of our better doubles players. If we regularly give up the doubles point and the 3 slot against good teams, that puts a lot of pressure up and down the rest of the lineup to get 4 of the other 5 singles points.
And one other thing I just noticed: Geller hasn't played since our Mar. 22 upset loss to UC Santa Barbara. I wonder if she was playing injured and finally threw in the towel on the season? She'd been cut from our singles lineup pretty quickly and had only been playing the 3 in doubles with Madurawe.
And one other thing I just noticed: Geller hasn't played since our Mar. 22 upset loss to UC Santa Barbara. I wonder if she was playing injured and finally threw in the towel on the season? She'd been cut from our singles lineup pretty quickly and had only been playing the 3 in doubles with Madurawe.