{"id":1407,"date":"2021-10-22T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2021-11-08T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:05:35","slug":"2nd-average-joes-kelley-court-tournament-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/2nd-average-joes-kelley-court-tournament-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd &#8220;Average Joes&#8221; Kelley court tournament Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kelley-Joe-SevernaPark21-Fife-1024x870.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kelley-Joe-SevernaPark21-Fife-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kelley-Joe-SevernaPark21-Fife-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kelley-Joe-SevernaPark21-Fife-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kelley-Joe-SevernaPark21-Fife-1536x1305.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Kelley-Joe-SevernaPark21-Fife.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Joe Kelley is back in action this weekend and the favorite to win his namesake event again.  Photo SevernaPark2021 courtesy of Ken Fife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, the Kelley brothers are inviting 20 of their closest racquetball friends to their unique home court for a fun shootout. The players are coming from all over the eastern seaboard, with 9 different states represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a review of the top 8 seeds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Former IRT regular Kyle Ulliman\u200b heads over from Ohio to claim the top spot.<\/li><li>Host Joe Kelley claims the #2 seed, having won the first iteration of this event last march.<\/li><li>Ohioan Victor Migliore\u200b has been playing the IRT regularly lately.<\/li><li>Maryland&#8217;s Dylan Pruitt\u200b, who was the 2019 18U doubles junior national champ and who made the semis here in March.<\/li><li>Texan Brennen Jennings\u200b had the furthest trip but represents the great state of Texas in the draw.<\/li><li>Floridian Alex zamudio\u200b has been making some waves lately in both his home state and on the IRT.<\/li><li>Marylander Ben Bleyer\u200b is a dark horse 7th seed, not well known nationally but a solid player from the Baltimore suburb of Ellicott City.<\/li><li>Georgian Austin Cunningham\u200b, who raced to the final here in march and will have his work cut out for him to repeat.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Also here are long-time new england top players Jason Sylvester KWNorth Properties\u200b and Jose Flores, who had a barn burner of a quarter final in March. Junior phenom from NY @josh shea is here as well as the 9th seed, and the other host Sam Kelley is the 12th seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a prediction piece, picking up in the round of 16:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upset watch in the 16s for these matches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>8\/9: Shea has been playing tough but Cunningham should advance.<\/li><li>5\/12: Sylvester as a 12 seed is tough; he was the #2 seed in March and could upset the young Floridian here.<\/li><li>7\/10: Bleyer is good, but so is #10 Flores. This could go either way as the wily veteran Flores plays tough.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarters prediction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ulliman over Cunningham in a breaker<\/li><li>Jennings wears down Pruitt in a breaker.<\/li><li>Migliore takes out a fatigued Sylvester<\/li><li>Joe advances in a tough one over Bleyer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Semis prediciton:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ulliman over Jennings<\/li><li>Joe over Migliore<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Final: Joe repeats on home soil and upsets the Ohioan in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should be a fun one! Look for streaming from the private accounts of the players in the draw Play starts 6pm Friday and finishes up 8pm Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, the Kelley brothers are inviting 20 of their closest racquetball friends to their unique home court for a fun shootout. The players are coming from all over the eastern seaboard, with 9 different states represented. Here&#8217;s a review of the top 8 seeds: Former IRT regular Kyle Ulliman\u200b heads over from Ohio to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/2nd-average-joes-kelley-court-tournament-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2nd &#8220;Average Joes&#8221; Kelley court tournament Preview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,98],"tags":[846,847,794,52,267,803,562,144,674,705],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur","category-singles","category-usa","tag-alex-zamudio","tag-ben-bleyer","tag-brennen-jennings","tag-david-austin","tag-dylan-pruitt","tag-jason-sylvester","tag-joe-kelley","tag-kyle-ulliman","tag-sam-kelley","tag-victor-migliore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}