2017 Springfield Lasers season

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2017 Springfield Lasers season
Record
2017 record 0 wins, 0 losses
Team Info
Owner(s) Springfield-Greene County Park Board
represented by John Cooper
President/CEO Bob Belote
General Manager Paul Nahon
Coach John-Laffnie de Jager
Stadium Mediacom Stadium at Cooper Tennis Complex
(capacity: 2,500)
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The 2017 Springfield Lasers season will be the 22nd season of the franchise in World TeamTennis (WTT).

Springfield Lasers World TeamTennis professional team

The Springfield Lasers are a World TeamTennis franchise. The franchise was purchased and donated to the city of Springfield, Missouri by the Cooper family in 1996. They play their home matches at Mediacom Stadium at Cooper Tennis Complex.

In an organized sports league, a typical season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session: for example, in Major League Baseball the season lasts approximately from April to October. In other team sports, like association football or basketball, it is generally from August or September to May although in some countries - such as Northern Europe or East Asia - the season starts in the spring and finishes in autumn, mainly due to weather conditions encountered during the winter.

World TeamTennis tennis team competition

World TeamTennis (WTT) is a mixed-gender professional tennis league played with a team format in the United States, which was founded in 1973.

Contents

Season recap

Drafts

Marquee Player Draft

The Lasers had the second overall pick at the 2017 WTT Marquee Player Draft on February 16. They traded the pick along with other undisclosed consideration to the New York Empire for the first overall selection with which the Lasers drafted top-ranked American Jack Sock. In doing so, the Lasers left John Isner unprotected. He was chosen by the Empire with the first pick in the second round. The Empire selected Eugenie Bouchard with the pick they acquired from the Lasers in the trade. The Lasers passed on making any selections in the second and third rounds of the draft. [1]

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The New York Empire is a World TeamTennis (WTT) team that plays its home matches at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York City.

A draft is a process used in some countries and sports to allocate certain players to teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players. When a team selects a player, the team receives exclusive rights to sign that player to a contract, and no other team in the league may sign the player.

Event chronology

Jack Sock American tennis player

Jack Sock is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 2 in the world in doubles, and regularly partnered with Canadian tennis player Vasek Pospisil until July 2016. Together they won the 2014 Wimbledon championship, a victory that helped vault them into the Top 10 of the ATP doubles rankings. Additionally, he won the 2011 US Open mixed doubles title with fellow U.S. player Melanie Oudin as well as the 2018 Wimbledon and 2018 US Open men's doubles titles with Mike Bryan. Following his US Open win, Sock reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 2 in the world, behind Mike Bryan. He has won four career ATP singles titles and fourteen doubles titles.

John Isner American tennis player

John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player who is the No. 9 ranked in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and has been ranked as high as No. 8. Considered one of the best servers ever to play on the ATP World Tour, Isner achieved his career-high singles ranking in July 2018 by virtue of his maiden Masters 1000 crown at the 2018 Miami Open and a semifinals appearance at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. He currently has the second-most aces in the history of the ATP World Tour, having served 11,271 aces. At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, he played the longest professional tennis match in history, defeating Nicolas Mahut in a total of 11 hours and 5 minutes of play over the course of three days.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Top-Ranked American Jack Sock is First Pick in Mylan WTT Marquee Draft". World TeamTennis . February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
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