Here it is, the 3.0 bracket reveal for one of the newest 3.0 tournament events of the summer - the Green Open Championships!
While the GOC, if you will, is relatively new on the 3.0 landscape, in its brief two year run, it's hosted a tennis smorgasbord of 3.0 stars, from veterans of the 3.0 tournament scene to champions on the league scene! So who is facing one another in this year's rendition? Let's find out!
Bracket Reveal - Singles
Whoa! With former GOC title holders Joshua ('18) and Ben ('19) bumped to 3.5 (and playing in the 3.5 event, by the way), this bracket is wide open for someone new to take home the vaunted GOC! As we wrote earlier, there are several outstanding 3.0ers in the bracket (read our Player Previews here!) So who will emerge out of the Quarterfinals - doubles veteran Paul or last year's GOC Consolation Title holder Timothy? In the Semifinals, which one will face Travis, holder of four 3.0 titles but also holder of a first round GOC exit last year? At the other end of the bracket, will Chip, coming off a huge league win to end his league season, be able to take advantage of that momentum and his home courts and of a potentially distracted Benjamin, who's league team advanced to the playoffs? So many questions! So few answers! But all shall be revealed ... starting Friday!
Bracket Reveal - Doubles
Whoa! AGAIN! Obviously headlining this bracket are defending GOC Doubles champions Aditya and Shailendra, who, with a perfect and unblemished 3-0 career 3.0 doubles record are clearly once again the favorites (favorites, by the way, to be the first to defend a 3.0 doubles title since that legendary duo Grec Starc and Jim Wable back in '07 and '08)! That being said, Aditya and Shailendra will have to get by the veteran moxy of Chip and Timothy, two players who are also undefeated together and know their home Green courts like none other! At the top of the bracket, the Schneider Family is coming off a 3rd place Akron Open Doubles finish, and as the only doubles tandem that has played multiple 3.0 tournaments together, their communication will no doubt serve them (get it?!) well. Facing them, though, are two 3.0 tournament veterans who would seem to have the talent to make a deep 3.0 run, but the fact they're the only doubles team in this tournament that has never actually played together (and the fact that Travis routinely depends on his partner to do all the work) is a huge obstacle they'll have to quickly overcome. Will they? Or won't they?! Either way, it all begins Friday! Good luck all!
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