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Kenny and Randy are in the beer bracket - doh!

It’s Championship Monday at The Green Cup!  Come join us for the party.

The highlights of day two are as follows and Championship Monday is now all set up.

Cote takes the bronze!  He saw match point but did not convert losing game 3 of the Open Singles Semi-Final to Florian Goetze, the Worlds No #2 player, 16-14.

So the final is set for Open Singles and Mixed Doubles.  In singles Emmanuel defeated Yves in 2 sets and Florian beat Martin Cote in 3 sets.  That means we’ll see a rematch of the Singles Championship match at Worlds this past summer here at the GC today.  Emmanuel, from Montreal, will be trying for his 2nd GC Singles title while Florian, from Germany, will by trying to capture his first.

In mixed doubles the defending World Champions will face the defending Green Cup Champions - Lisa McDaniel and Florian Goetze against Jody Welch and PT Lovern.

There were no major upsets in Open Doubles as the top 4 seeds advanced to Championship Monday.  We start our day at high noon with the current two time defending World Champions - Florian Goetze and Patrick Schrickel, Chaos #8, facing the team that took 4th place at the WFC this year - Bob Lavigne, of Montreal Quebec, and Alexis Deschenes, Chaos #17.

Emmanuel Bouchard and Chaos #3, PT Lovern, will meet defending Green Cup Champions Chaos #4 & #5, John Leys and Eric Wulff, in Semi Final no. 2 scheduled for 1pm.  PT won the Green Cup with Johnny in 2005 and Emmanuel with Patrick Schrickel in 2006.

At least one player will raise the cup for their second time and J4 is looking to become the first player to drink from the cup a 3rd time.  No team nor player has yet to defend the cup in the 4 year history of the event.

Check out the Green Cup page for more info about the event.  DJ, beer, margaritas, and tri-tips on the grill.  Bring your picnic blankets and lawn chairs and Have a Happy Green Cup Monday!

Out Of Retirment?

Not just yet.  At least not according to Shults.  The team of Randy Mulder and Kenny Shults were on the court again after a 9 year hiatus.  Uniforms required?  They played in matching Bermuda shorts and Hawaiian shirts.  When asked about the unusual attire Shults replied, “This is what retired people wear.  We’ll come out of retirement tomorrow.  Youll see.  We’ve got a plan for each day of the event.” So, Kenny and Randy returned to the court today and didn’t disappoint anyone except their opponents.  Casual attire or not.  It is surely the lowest they’ve ever been seeded, 5th, but what do you do when the winningest team in the history of the game shows up after 9 years off.  Needless to say perhaps - they advanced from their pool in straight sets.

Day one ...

32 Singles players and 22 Open doubles teams.  We shattered all records for attendance and can’t thank enough those who traveled half way around the world to be here competing and enjoying the weekend with us.

Sebastien Verdi is here and playing too.  He is competing on the court for the first time in several years and we thank him for that.  He stepped up to play with Luc Legault when his partner Frank Peltier had to withdraw suffering from back spasms.

BTW - Frank was released from the hospital after a brief visit to treat the spasms.  He should be doing fine.  So, that is good news.  All the best to Frank from Chaos and the entire Green Cup crew!

Greg Lima hit the singles scene hard taking J4 to 10-10 in game 3 before succumbing 10-12.  Martin Cote was not so kind coming back to upset the John in game 3 - 12-10.  What kind of way is that for an honored guest to be treating his hosts.  Sheesh! 

There were no major upsets in Doubles net as the top seeds in each of 7 pools won.  Winning their pools…

Flo/Patti, Eric/John, Manu/PT, Alexis/Bob, Kenny/Randy, Martin/Gilles, Yves/Ulli.

Freestyle?  We’ve got it and David Clavens is here - the 4th ranked player in the world.  I have no news on freestyle yet except that David Clavens won his pool today.  Thanks to Steve Goldberg, Emily Kulcyk, and Red Husted for making freestyle happen!

Tomorrow are the singles consolation, singles semis, doubles round of 16 and quarters, and mixed doubles semi finals.  What will Shults and Mulder have in store for us tomorrow?  Are they bringing back the wardrobe wars?

Opening Day At The Green Cup 2008

We’re breaking all kinds of records for attendance with pre-registration alone.  We’re hosting freestyle events for the first time.  We have players from Germany, France, Russia, Denmark, Quebec, British Columbia, and of course the USA.  We’re honoring Kenny Shults, Randy Mulder, and Martin Cote.  The Green Cup 2008 opens today!

GC 08 Seeding - via google docs.  This is the current state.  Subject to change.  Singles in particular will probably have some significant updates.

Open Doubles: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=arfbfj3zk3k_193dfs5s644
Open Singles: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=arfbfj3zk3k_195dhft6vcw

What's Next? Register Now or Die

Okay, perhaps death will not become you, immediately.  But, it will come.  So register now.  It’s your last chance.

The schedule for net is up.  We’ll try to get the freestyle schedule set and published asap.  We’ll also be publishing a first run of seeding for open doubles at least on Thursday night.  Also, we will be publishing the world rankings recently calculated by Grischa and co.

Stay tuned!  The Green Cup is coming.

2008 Green Cup Official Schedule

subject to change

The official net schedule of The 2008 Green Cup Presented By Chaos is now available everywhere.  Try not to find it.  I dare you ...

Green Cup Schedule

Registration Is Open

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